Guillermo Gómez-Peña

Guillermo Gómez-Peña

Fellow: Awarded 2019
Field of Study: Drama and Performance Art

Competition: US & Canada

Guillermo Gómez-Peña (US/Mexico) is a performance artist, writer, activist, radical pedagogue and director of the legendary performance troupe La Pocha Nostra. Born in Mexico City, he moved to the US in 1978. His performance work and 12 books have contributed to the debates on cultural & gender diversity, border culture and US/Mexico relations. His artwork has been presented at over a thousand venues across the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Russia, South Africa and Australia. A MacArthur Fellow, Bessie and American Book Award winner, he is a regular contributor for newspapers and magazines in the US, Mexico, and Europe, a contributing editor to The Drama Review (NYU/MIT) and the Live Art Almanac (Live Art Development Agency-UK). Gómez-Peña is also a Senior Fellow in the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics and a Patron for the London-based Live Art Development Agency, He was named Samuel Hoi Fellow by USA Artists in 2012 and received a Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation in 2013. He is currently preparing two new books for Routledge (2019) and a documentary portrait of his beloved troupe.

“Intercultural Poltergeist: The living art of Gómez Peña & La Pocha Nostra”
Photo performance, living archives, performance chronology, La Pocha Nostra

“Radical art, radical communities and radical dreams” TedEx Talk
Live performance, spoken word monologue

Profile photograph by Zach Gross

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