The MFA Fine Arts program at Otis College of Art and Design is pleased to have Harry Gamboa Jr. join its Visiting Artist Lecture Series for Spring 2023. Join us via Zoom for this special artist presentation, followed by Q&A on Thursday, March 2, 11:00 a.m. via Zoom.
Harry Gamboa Jr. (b. 1951) is the founder and director of the international performance troupe, Virtual Vérité (2005-2017), and a co-founder of Asco (1972-1985), the Los Angeles-based performance group. He is the director of the Photo/Media Program at California Institute of the Arts. His work has been exhibited and/or collected nationally/internationally in such places as: AltaMed Art Collection (2022); J.P. Getty Museum, Los Angeles (2021); Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany (2020); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2020); Smithsonian Na-tional Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C (2019); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Autry Museum of the American West (2018); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York(2016, 2015, 1995 Biennial); Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England (2013); Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City (2011); and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2006), among others. His work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Apollo, Spike, The Wall Street Journal, Frieze, Aperture, USA Today, Variety, Le Monde, Artforum, Art in America, Flash Art, DW (Berlin), NPR, Terremoto (Mexico City), The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Art Monthly, and El País. He is the author of Xoloitzcuintli Doppelgänger and Other Stories; essays in Pfeil (Hamburg); Exploring Commonism: A New Aesthetics of the Real (Antwerp); ArtsEverywhere, (Ontario, Canada); Lennox: A Colorful Place to Land (East of Borneo Press); and Urban Exile: Collected Writings of Harry Gamboa Jr. (University of Minnesota Press).
