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  • Guillermo Gómez-Peña

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    Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a performance artist and writer based in San Francisco, where he is artistic director of La Pocha Nostra, an international collective of artists, curators, and intellectuals. A native of Mexico City, Gómez-Peña’s pioneering work in performance, video, radio, installation, poetry, journalism, and cultural theory explores cross-cultural issues, immigration, the politics of language, "extreme culture," and new technologies. Critics have described his live work as “Chicano cyber-punk performances.” Gómez-Peña is a MacArthur fellow, an American Book Award recipient, a regular contributor to National Public Radio, a writer for newspapers and magazines in the United States and Mexico, and a contributing editor to The Drama Review (NYU-MIT). His performance, installation, and video work has been presented at over seven hundred venues across the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Australia, Russia, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, and Argentina. Most recently, he has presented work at Tate Modern (London), the House of World Cultures (Berlin), MACBA (Barcelona), The Chopo Museum (Mexico City), the Encuentro Hemisférico (Lima, Rio de Janeiro, and New York), and the Habana Bienale.

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