Worker Ant (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781493544349)

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: Nottingham Contemporary, England (2013); Le Musée d' Art Contemporain, Marseille (2013); Museo Universitario Art Contemporáneo (UNAM), Mexico City (2013); Tate Liverpool, England (2013); 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), 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); 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); Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City (1978). His work has been featured in numerous publications: Artforum; The New York Times; Art Review (London); Artforum; Art in America; Frieze (London); East of Boreno. 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 delivered artist talks at: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Harvard University; Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado"La Esmeralda", Mexico City, and Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium. 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).