Guillermo Gómez-Peña was born and raised in Mexico City. He came to the United States in 1978. His work includes performance art, video, audio, installations, poetry, journalism, and cultural theory exploring cross-cultural issues, immigration, the politics of language, and border culture. The first Chicano/Mexicano artist to receive a MacArthur Fellowship (1991), he has published ten books and is the 1997 recipient of the American Book Award.
Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Articles by Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Friday April 15
Rewriting Marcos
In Mexico, I am an activist against violence; in the US, I am always against amnesia, but to be more geographically specific, in the Sonora desert, I am a Yaqui elder who remembers the way things were before the Spaniards & the Anglos arrived