Harry Gamboa Jr.
Exhibitions + Events:
Exhibition
ASCO: Elite of the Obscure
February 4 - July 29, 2012
Williams College Museum of Art
Williamstown, MA
Catalogue
ASCO: Elite of the Obscure
A Retrospective 1972-1987
Text by Maris Bustamante, Amelia Jones, Rita González, Jesse Lerner.
http://www.artbook.com/9783775730037.html
Biography:
Since 1972, Harry Gamboa Jr. has been actively creating works in various media/forms that document and interpret the contemporary urban Chicano experience.
He co-founded Asco (Spanish for nausea) 1972-1987, the East L.A. conceptual-performance art group.
He founded Virtual Vérité, an ensemble performance troupe in 2005.
His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally: Williams College Museum of Art (2012); Royal College of Art, London (2012), Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City (2011, 1984); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2011, 2010), Orange County Museum of Art (2011); Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France (2010); Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Guadalajara, México (2010); Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland (2009); Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom (2009); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2008, 2001); Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City (2008); Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles (2008); El Museo del Barrio, New York (2008); The Huntington Library, San Marino (2008); Museo José Luis Cuevas, Mexico City (2006); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2006); Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Mexico City (2005); International Center of Photography, New York (2003); MIT List Visual Arts Center (2000); Queens Museum of Art (1999); Smithsonian Institution(1997); Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (1996); 1995 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York (1994); Getty Research Institute (1994); LAX/CSU Los Angeles (1994); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1979); Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City (1978).
His work has been featured in numerous publications: Artforum; La Opinión; Los Angeles Times; The New York Times; Art Review (London); Modern Painters, Rolling Stone (Italy), The Christian Science Monitor; Actuel (Paris); Afterimage; Reforma (Mexico City); Artforum; Art in America; Artweek; The Boston Globe; Frieze (London); Los Angeles Magazine; El Universal (Mexico City); The Orange County Register; Felix; Flash Art (Milan); Frontera; Afterall (London); Theatre Journal; The Hollywood Reporter; The Village Voice; The Houston Chronicle; Wide Angle; Palabra, Poliester (Mexico City); The Wall Street Journal; L.A. Weekly; Artillery, The Guardian (London); The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Zoom (Milan), ARTnews, East of Boreno.
He has been awarded several individual artist fellowships: Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship/CSU Los Angeles (2004); Durfee Artist Award (2001); The Flintridge Foundation Visual Artist Award (2000); J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts (1990); California Arts Council (1996); National Endowment for the Arts (1987 and 1980).
2010 Latino Heritage Month was inaugurated in a ceremony attended by a wide spectrum of supporters in Council Chambers at the famed Los Angeles City Hall, where Los Angeles Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa presented the Latino Heritage Awards: Spirit of Los Angeles (Willie Herrón III, Patssi Valdez, and Harry Gamboa Jr. accepted the award on behalf of Asco), Dream of Los Angeles Tony Plana, Hope of Los Angeles Plácido Domingo.
He is a member of the faculty at California Institute of the Arts, School of Art, Program in Photography and Media.
He also lectures for Chicana/o Studies Department, CSU Northridge.
He has also taught at various universities and art institutions: UC Los Angeles; UCRiverside; UC Irvine; UC Santa Barbara; UC San Diego; CSU Los Angeles; Otis/Parsons; and Maine College of Art.
He has delivered artist talks at: Harvard University; UC Berkeley; Stanford University; Dartmouth College; Cornell University; Scripps College, Claremont Graduate University; School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Centro Cultural de España, Mexico City; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Artist Talk:
Erased: Limits and Borders - Harry Gamboa Jr.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB-Qu8nSLW8
A permanent collection of his media works/papers has been established and archived at Stanford University (Special Collections: Mexican American Manuscript Collections, Harry Gamboa Jr. Papers, 1968-2008).
His oral history is archived at: Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
He is the author of:
Aztlángst: La La Fotonovela (Volume 1)
CreateSpace
2011
ISBN 1463665652
http://www.amazon.com/Aztlángst-Fotonovela-Harry-Gamboa-Jr/dp/1463665652/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1313068962&sr=1-1
Pix
CreateSpace
2011
ISBN 1456517422
http://www.amazon.com/Pix-Harry-Gamboa-Jr/dp/1456517422/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1300663777&sr=8-1
Fallen
CreateSpace
2010
ISBN 1450569641 paper
http://www.amazon.com/Fallen-Harry-Gamboa-Jr/dp/1450569641/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277472501&sr=8-10
Rider
CreateSpace
2009
ISBN 1448670306 paper
http://www.amazon.com/Rider-Harry-Gamboa-Jr/dp/1448670306/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261209441&sr=8-5
Urban Exile: Collected Writings of Harry Gamboa Jr.
(ed. Chon A. Noriega)
University of Minnesota Press
1998
ISBN 0-8166-3052-6 paper
ISBN 0-8166-3051-8 cloth
http://www.amazon.com/Urban-Exile-Collected-Writings-Gamboa/dp/0816630526/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1245387439&sr=8-4
Reviews + Features + Events 2010-2012:
Artists, actors creatively reengage with '92 L.A. riots, 'Twilight
by
Reed Johnson
Los Angeles Times
April 29, 2012
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-art-riots-20120429,0,4073690.story
Exhibition
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981
Museum of Contemporary Art
October 2, 2011 - February 13, 2012
Los Angeles
Exhibition
Mapping Another L.A.: The Chicano Art Movement
L.A. Xicano Project
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
Fowler Museum
October 18, 2011 - February 26, 2012
Exhibition
State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970
UC Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
February 26 - June 17, 2012
Pacific Standard Time
http://pacificstandardtime.org
MEX/LA: Mexican Modernisms In Los Angeles 1930-1985
Text by Mariana Botey, Harry Gamboa Jr., Ana Elena Mallet, Catha Paquette, Jennifer Sternad, et. al.
http://www.artbook.com/9783775731331.html
Asco: Elite of the Obscure
by
Annie Buckley
Art in America
January 2012
http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/asco-elit-of-the-obscure
Asco: Elite of the Obscure
Frieze
January 2012
http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/asco-elite-of-the-obscure
Best of 2011
Asco: Elite of the Obscure, a Retrospective, 1972–1987
by
Michael Ned Holte
Artforum
December 2011
http://artforum.com/inprint/issue=201110&id=29552&pagenum=1
2011 year in review: Best in art
Asco: Elite of the Obscure, a Retrospective, 1972–1987
by
Christopher Knight
Los Angeles Times
December 15, 2011
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/12/2011-year-in-review-best-in-art.html
Harry Gamboa of Asco:
How A Chicano Performance Group Turned Oppression into Dangerous Fun
by
Catherine Wagley
LA Weekly
December 6, 2011
http://blogs.laweekly.com/stylecouncil/2011/12/harry_gamboa_jr_oral_history_a.php
The MEX/LA Art Show: Five Things to Know
by
Degen Pener
The Hollywood Reporter
December 6, 2011
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mex-la-art-show-ruben-guevara-269432
5 Best Thanksgiving Artworks in L.A.
by
Megan Sallabedra
L.A. Weekly
November 24, 2011
http://blogs.laweekly.com/stylecouncil/2011/11/thanksgiving_art_los_angeles.php
A New Pin on the Art Map
by
Roberta Smith
The New York Times
November 10, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/arts/design/pacific-standard-time-art-exhibitions-in-la-review.html
ASCO: estetica sovversiva
di
Patrick Steffen
Rolling Stone
12 ottobre 2011
http://www.rollingstonemagazine.it/eventi/reportage/asco-estetica-sovversiva/43707
Pacific Standard Time, puro arte de L.A.
by
Javier Hontoria
El Cultural.es
13 de septiembre de 11
http://www.elcultural.es/noticias/ARTE/2217/Pacific_Standard_Time_puro_arte_de_LA
Laying Claim to Its Place in the Sun
by
Peter Plagens
The Wall Street Journal
October 13, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203633104576624720686420848.html
PST Events Bring Out Actors, Artists, Collectors and Others
Society News L.A.
October 7, 2011
http://societynewsla.com/pst-events/?nggpage=2
L.A. Chicano life during the ’70s will be in a new exhibit at Fowler Museum
UCLA
Daily Bruin
September 26, 2011
http://www.dailybruin.com/index.php/article/2011/09/l.a._chicano_life_during_the_70s_will_be_in_a_new_exhibit_at_fowler_museum
Fowler OutSpoken Conversation: Oscar Castillo and Harry Gamboa, Jr.
September 25, 2011
Fowler Museum at UCLA
2 pm
Fowler Museum Auditorium
Free Program
http://www.fowler.ucla.edu/events/fowler-outspoken-conversation-oscar-castillo-and-harry-gamboa-jr
Asco en el museo
por
Valeria Perasso
BBC Mundo
23 de septiembre de 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/video_fotos/2011/09/110923_galeria_asco_rg.shtml
Driving Pacific Standard Time: How a Studio Becomes a Starbucks
by
Ed Schad
LAWeekly
September 22, 2011
http://www.laweekly.com/2011-09-22/art-books/driving-pacific-standard-time-how-a-studio-becomes-a-starbucks
Pacific Standard Time
Asco shakes things up at the celebration of L.A. art
by
Alanna Nartinez
Modern Painters
September 2011
Page 21
'Pacific Standard Time': Exhibitions to keep an eye on
by
Christopher Knight
Los Angeles Times
September 18, 2011
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-pst-knight-list-20110918,0,4038038.story
MEX/L.A.: “Mexican” Modernism(s) in Los Angeles, 1930-1985
Visarts UCSD
http://va-grad.ucsd.edu/~drupal/node/2220
Colectivo Asco logra exposición en el museo LACMA
Publimetro
http://www.publimetro.cl/nota/espectaculos/colectivo-asco-logra-exposicion-en-el-museo-lacma/Etzkic!jUt2R2ctwydsW4FgHfIzA
Artistas exponen en el museo que alguna vez pintarrajearon
por
Randy Kennedy
Revista Ñ
16 de septiembre de 2011
http://www.revistaenie.clarin.com/arte/Artistas_exponen_en_el_museo_que_alguna_vez_pintarrajearon_0_554944726.html
‘Asco’: arte de posguerra
por
Patricia Prieto
La Opinión
14 de septiembre de 2011
http://www.impre.com/laopinion/entretenimiento/arte-cultura/2011/9/14/asco--arte-de-posguerra-272039-1.html
A permanent Asco mural is slated for City Terrace
by
Christopher Knight
Los Angeles Times
September 12, 2011
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/09/a-permanent-asco-mural-is-slated-for-city-terrace.html
Art review: 'Asco: Elite of the Obscure, 1972-1987' at LACMA
by
Christopher Knight
Los Angeles Times
September 9, 2011
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/09/art-review-asco-elite-of-the-obscure-a-retrospective-1972-1987-at-the-los-angeles-county-museum-of-a.html
Asco at LACMA: Glitter, Face Paint, Velvet and Chiffon in the Name of Politics
by
Sophie Duvernoy
LAWEEKLY
September 8, 2011
http://blogs.laweekly.com/stylecouncil/2011/09/asco_lacma_elite_obscure.php
1970s L.A. Chicano Conceptual Art Group Gets its Due
by
Adolfo Guzman-Lopez
KCET
September 7, 2011
http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/commentary/movie-miento/1970s-la-chicano-conceptual-art-group-gets-its-due.html
Asco Exhibit in L.A. Highlights 1970s Chicano Performance Art
News Taco
http://www.newstaco.com/2011/09/06/asco-exhibit-in-la-highlights-1970s-chicano-performance-art
Chicano performers revived
Flash Art
http://www.flashartonline.com/interno.php?pagina=news_det&id=1262&det=ok&title=Chicano-performers-revived
Week in Culture Pictures
The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/08/28/arts/design/20110828-WIC-SS-9.html
Chicano Pioneers
by
Randy Kennedy
The New York Times
August 25, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/arts/design/works-by-asco-at-the-los-angeles-museum.html
Asco Returns Triumphant to LACMA
by
Max Benavidez
The Huffington Post
August 25, 2011
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-benavidez/asco-returns-triumphant-t_b_933685.html
America Latina: arte y confrontacíon. 1910-2010
Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes
Mexico City
March 9, 2011 - June 5, 2011
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2010/08/02/index.php?section=cultura&article=a08n1cul
MOCA's 'Art in the Streets' gets the big picture wrong
by
Christopher Knight
Los Angeles Times
May 29, 2011
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-knight-graffiti-notebook-20110529,0,839366.story
Erased: Limits and Borders
Artist Talk
Thursday,
May 26, 2011
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington D.C.
The Artists' Museum VIP Opening At MOCA, Life, October 30, 2010
http://www.life.com/image/106386545
The Artists Take Over, Los Angeles Downtown News, November 5, 2010
http://www.ladowntownnews.com/articles/2010/11/05/entertainment/doc4cd47f04b3103706462176.txt
MOCA Exhibition event photographs:
http://wireimage.com/SearchResults.aspx?navtyp=SRH&sfld=C&logsrch=1&s=GAMBOA
No Movies with Harry Gamboa Jr.
directed by Miguel Duran
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx8Amfc2ivo
Recent Works:
End of an Era/Error
by
Harry Gamboa Jr.
East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines,
November 1, 2011
http://atomikaztex.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/end-of-an-eraerror-by-harry-gamboa-jr
Last Stand
by
Harry Gamboa Jr.
Bad Subjects
2011
http://bad.eserver.org/issues/2011/81/gamboa.htm
Blinders
by
Harry Gamboa Jr.
Global Graffiti Magazine
June 15, 2011
http://globalgraffmag.wordpress.com/2011/06/15/blinders
X-más Story
by
Harry Gamboa Jr.
LatinoLA!
December 21, 2010
http://latinola.com/story.php?story=9155
Against the Wall: Remembering the Chicano Moratorium
by
Harry Gamboa, Jr.
East Of Borneo
November 16, 2010
http://www.eastofborneo.org/articles/20
Contact:
Harry Gamboa Jr.
P.O. Box 862015
Los Angeles, CA 90086-2015a
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