Harry Gamboa Jr. is the founder and director of Virtual Vérité (2005-2017), the international performance troupe. He is a co-founder of Asco (1972-1985), the Los Angeles-based performance group.
His work has been exhibited and/or collected nationally/internationally: Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (2023); AltaMed Art Collection, Rome, Italy (2022); J.P. Getty Museum (2021), Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2020); Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C (2019).; Autry Museum of the American West (2018), Marlborough Contemporary, New York (2017); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2016, 2015 and 1995 Biennial); Princeton University Art Museum (2015); Centre d’Arts Plastiques Contemporain Bordeaux, France (2014); De Appel, Amsterdam (2014); Triangle France, Marseille, France (2014); Smart Museum of Art, Chicago (2014); Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria (2013); Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, England (2013); Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. (2013); Le Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseille, France (2013, 2017); Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (UNAM), Mexico City (2013); Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England (2013); Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City (2011,1981); Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne, Switzerland (2009); Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England (2009); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2011, 2008, 2001); Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City (2008); The Huntington Library, San Marino, California (2008); Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2006); International Center of Photography, New York (2003); MIT List Visual Arts Center (2000); Queens Museum of Art (1999); Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. (1997); Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark (1996); Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (1994); Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (1994); Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City (1981); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1979); Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City (1978); Museo Alvar y Carmen T. Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (1978). His work has been featured: Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Apollo, Spike, The Wall Street Journal, Frieze, Aperture, USA Today, Variety, Le Monde (Paris), Artforum, Art in America, Flash Art, DW (Berlin), NPR, Terremoto (Mexico City), The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Art Monthly (UK), and El País (Madrid).
He is the author of Xoloitzcuintli Doppelgänger and other stories, essays in Pfeil No. 10 & 12 (Hamburg), Exploring Commonism A New Aesthetics of the Real (Antwerp), and ArtsEverywhere, (Ontario, Canada), Lennox: A Colorful Place to Land (East of Borneo Press); Urban Exile: Collected Writings of Harry Gamboa Jr. (University of Minnesota Press).
