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Since 1972, Harry Gamboa Jr. has utilized 35mm B&W and 35mm Color photography to document and interpret the Chicano urban experience.

Many of the 35mm B&W, 35mm Color, and digital photographic works presented in this site have been exhibited at various venues and have appeared in numerous publications including:

 

Solo Exhibitions


Accumulation
Patricia Correia Gallery
Santa Monica, California
2004

Site Unscene
Daniel Saxon Gallery
West Hollywood, California
1997

The Urban Desert
LAX 94/CSU Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
1994

L.A. Street Scene
Eastern Washington University, Cheny, Washington
1988

Gamboa 84
Los Angeles Photography Center
Los Angeles, California
1984

Brown In Black and White
CSU Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
1982

 

Group Exhibitions

ARTE no es VIDA:
Actions by Artists of the Americas
1960-2000
El Museo del Barrio

New York
2008

Only Skin Deep
International Center of Photography
New York
2003

Cuatro
UCR/California Museum of Photgraphy
Riverside, California
2001

Made in California
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, California
2001

Berlin Mein Stadt/L.A. My City
Akademie der Künste
Berlin Tiergarten
Germany
2001

American Voices:
Latino Photographers in the U.S.

International Gallery
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1998

From The West:
Chicano Narrative Photography

The Mexican Museum
San Francisco, California
1996

Chicano Art:
Resistance and Affirmation

Wight Art Gallery
UC Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
1990

Tercer Muestra de la Fotografia Latinoamericana Contemporanea
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de la Habana
Habana, Cuba
1984

Con Cariño
Kulturant der Stadt Erlangen und Institut Fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Erlangen-Nurenberg
W. Germany
1982

Asco 82
Galeria de la Raza
San Francisco,California
1982

Segunda Muestra de la Fotografia Latinoamericana Contemporanea
Palacios de las Bellas Artes
Mexico City
1981


Primer Muestra de la Fotografia Latinoamericana Contemporanea
Museo de Arte Moderno
Mexico City
1978

 

Some of the images in the series have been funded in part by fellowships/grants:

Durfee Foundation
2001

The Flintridge Foundation
2000

J.P. Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts
1990

National Endowment for the Arts
1987
1980

Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
1978

 

Special thanks to:

Morrie Camhi

Bailey Wong
Zone V Photo Lab
Hollywood, California

Willie Garcia

 

Suggested reading:

Barron, Stephanie; Berstein, Sheri; and Fort, Ilene Susan, ed.
Reading California
Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Noriega, Chon A.
From Beats To Borders
An Alternative History of Chicano Art in California
pgs. 352-371
University of California Press
2000

Barron, Stephanie; Berstein, Sheri; and Fort, Ilene Susan, ed.
Made in California
Fox, Howard N.
Tremors in Paradise 1960-1980
pg. 227
University of California Press
2000

Garcia, Ramón
Patssi's Eyes
Aztlán
Vol. 22, No. 2
University of California, Los Angeles
Fall, 1997

Gonzalez, Jennifer A.,
Negotiated Frontiers

Exhibition catalogue
From The West
The Mexican Museum
San Francisco, California
pgs. 17-22
1997

Forde, Ed
No Alibi:
Works By Harry Gamboa Jr.

Exhibition catalogue
LAX 94
pgs. 58-63
Los Angeles, California
1994

Valle, Victor
Chicano Art: An Emerging Generation
LATINO SERIES
Los Angeles Times
Calendar section
pgs. 4-6
Los Angeles, California
August 7, 1983

Goldman, Shifra
Brown In Black and White
Artweek
Vol. 13, No. 21
Oakland, California
June, 1982

de Los Angeles Padron, Maria
Cafe En Blanco y Negro, Por Gamboa

La Opinion
Los Angeles, California
May 20, 1982

Orth, Maureen
The Soaring Spirits Of
The Chicano Arts

New West
Los Angeles, California
September 11, 1978

TPI-NGS
1999
   
  La Luz
NHCCNM
   
  LAX/94
1994
   
  Global Conceptualism
MIT
2000
   
  Photography Institute
1999
     
  Harvard University
2004

 

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