# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/guillermo-gomez-pena
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:32:48.035Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/guillermo-gomez-pena"
name: "Guillermo Gómez-Peña"
slug: "guillermo-gomez-pena"
description: "Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a Mexican/Chicano performance artist, writer, activist, and educator. Gómez-Peña has created work in multiple media, including performance art, experimental radio, video, photography and installation art. His fifteen books include essays, experimental poetry, performance scripts, photographs and chronicles in both English, Spanish and Spanglish. He is a founding member of the pioneering art collective Border Arts Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo (1985-1992) and artistic director of the performance art troupe La Pocha Nostra."
tagline: "Chicano artist (born 1955)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Naftazteca_Guillermo_Gomez_Pena.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Mexico"
  isoCode: "MX"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1955-09-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.92
  momentum:             1.243523316062176
  historical:           5.290102666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/pochanostra"
    handle:    "pochanostra"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.guillermogomezpena.com"
sources:
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    title: "Guillermo Gómez-Peña"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%88_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B2_%D9%BE%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "جويليرمو جوميز پينا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Guillermo Gómez-Peña"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/320050"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_G%C3%B3mez-Pe%C3%B1a"
    title: "Guillermo Gómez-Peña"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Guillermo Gómez-Peña"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump