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Guillermo Gómez-Peña

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Chicano artist (born 1955)

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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.

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2019Guggenheim Fellowship
1997American Book Awards
1991MacArthur Fellows Program
Bessie Awards

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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.

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Mexico
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Writers
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Writer / Author
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living
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Born 1955 · age 71
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