Harry Gamboa Jr.

Harry Gamboa Jr. (b. 1951, Los Angeles)

Faculty, Photo/Media Program at California Institute of the Arts.

Co-founder of Asco (1972-1985), the Los Angeles-based performance group.

Founder and director of Troupe Non Grata (2022-present),

"Harry Gamboa Jr., Creative Polymath" -- J. Paul Getty Trust (2024)

His work has been exhibited and/or acquired nationally/internationally :

Tate Americas Foundation (2026); Museum of Contemporary Art (2026, 2021,

1992), University of Kentucky Art Museum (2026); Museo del Palacio de Bellas

Artes, (2026,Mexico City (2026, 2011,1981); Academy Museum of Motion

Pictures (2023); AltaMed Art Collection (2022); J. Paul Getty Museum (2021);

Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2020); Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery,

Washington DC (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); De Appel, Amsterdam (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, Liverpook, England (2013); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los

Angeles (2011, 2010); Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne, Switzerland (2009);

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2011, 2008, 2001); Fowler Museum, UC Los

Angeles (2011); Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2006); Statens Museum for

Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark (1996); Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

(1994); Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (1994); LAX/CSU Los Angeles

(1994); Festival de Cannes, "Mur Murs", Agnès Varda (1981); Museum of

Contemporary Art, Chicago (1979); Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City (1978);

Museo Alvar y Carmen T. Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (1978); Tucson Museum of Art,

Tucson, AZ (1977).

His work has been featured: Los Angeles Times ("Chicano art: An emerging

generation", Pulitzer Prize, 1984), The New York Times, Apollo, Spike Art

Magazine, Actuel, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Frieze, Aperture,

USA Today, Variety, Le Monde, Artforum, Art in America, Flash Art, DW, Terremoto,

Pfeil Magazine, El Universal, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Art Monthly and El País.

100 Best Artworks About America - ARTnews, May 28, 2026

#89 Harry Gamboa Jr., Decoy Gang War Victim, 1974, from the Asco era

©1974, Harry Gamboa Jr.— Brian Boucher,Senior Market Reporter, ARTnews

Featured cover image for ARTFORUM (OCTOBER, 2011)

Decoy Gang War Victim, 1974, from the Asco era

He has received numerous awards: Stieglitz Award, Los Angeles. Center of

Photography (2024); Rockefeller Foundation (2004); Durfee Foundation Artist

Award (2001); Flintridge Foundation Visual Artist Award (2000); Gluck Foundation

(1998–1999), J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts (1990), California Arts

Council (1996), Art Matters, Inc. (1996), and National Endowment for the Arts

(1987 and 1980).

He is featured in two films:

ASCO Without Permission (2025), Director: Travis Gutiérrez Senger

Mur Murs (1981), Director: Agnès Varda

He is the author of several books including:

Gamboa, Harry Jr.; Slanted Jacaranda; c2026. ISBN 979-8180690777 (paperback)

Gamboa, Harry Jr.; X's Party; c2024. ISBN 979-8333334251 (paperback)

Gamboa, Harry Jr.; Xoloitzcuintli Doppelganger and other stories; x2018. ISBN 978-1724629906

Gamboa, Harry Jr.; Lennox: A Colorful Place to Land ;  East of Borneo Books, c2018. ISBN: 978-0-9982457-0-6 (paperback)

Gamboa, Harry Jr.; The Sixth Expanse ; c2018. ISBN: 152324495X (paperback)

Gamboa, Harry Jr.; Fallen ; c2010. ISBN 1-4505-6964-1 (paperback)