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Biographical Sketch: Guillermo
Gómez-Peña
Performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña was born and raised in
Mexico City in 1955. He came to the United States in 1978 and has been
exploring cross-cultural issues and North-South relations ever since. He
works in a wide variety of media, including performance art, bilingual
poetry, journalism, radio, television and video, and installation art.
From 1983 until the mid-1990s, Gómez-Peña lived in San
Diego/Tijuana, where he was a catalyst for the reinterpretation of
American culture from the point of view of the contested terrain along
the border between the United States and Mexico. His art focuses, on the
one hand, the exotic and folkloric stereotypes of Mexico still popular in
the United States, and on the other, the cultural nationalism often
associated with politically charged Chicano art. He currently lives in
San Francisco.
He was a founding member of the Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arte
Fronterizo and the editor of the experimental arts magazine The
Broken Line/la Linea Quebrada. He has been a contributor to the
national radio magazine Crossroads and the radio program Latino
USA, and a contributing editor to High Performance magazine
and The Drama Review, two of the leading magazines dealing with
performance art. In 1991 he was the recipient of the prestigious John D.
and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship.
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