Interstitial Media
Harry Gamboa Jr.
Los Angeles, California
Internationally renown artist, author, and educator, he is the founder and director of the performance troupe Virtual Vérité (2005-2017) and co-founder of Los Angeles-based Asco (1972-1985). He is Co-Director of the Photo/Media Program at California Institute of the Arts.
Creator Portrait
Harry Gamboa Jr.'s work
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Nosebleed on Blacktop
The celebrated photographer, director and performance artist recalls the crucial lessons he learned at school in Boyle Heights, East L.A. in a vivid account of an artist's coming-of-age during the 1960s.
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From Scratched Corneas to Critical Focus
The cruelty inflicted upon a Chicano photographer's East LA community in the early 1970s ends up catalyzing his art and perspective.