Since 1972, Harry Gamboa Jr. has been working in various media/forms to document and interpret the contemporary urban Chicano experience. He was a co-founder of the East L.A. conceptual-performance art group 'Asco' (Spanish for 'nausea'), 1972-1987, and is currently teaching in the Photography and Media program at CalArts. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland (2009); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2008, 2001); Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City (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); MIT List Visual Arts Center (2000); Queens Museum of Art (1999); 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); LAX/CSU Los Angeles (1994); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1979); Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City (1978). Harry Gamboa Jr. has been awarded several individual artist fellowships including the Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship/CSU Los Angeles in 2004 and the J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts in 1990. He is the author of Urban Exile: Collected Writings of Harry Gamboa Jr. (1998), and has been featured internationally in publications including Afterall, Art in America, Artforum, Flash Art, Frieze, Poliester, and The New York Times. 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, 1968-1995). http://www.harrygamboajr.com