The art of Harry Gamboa Jr. encompasses photography, video, performance, installation, essays, fiction, poetry, and lesser-known forms of his own creation.

Working in the tradition of Bertolt Brecht and Samuel Beckett, Gamboa has pioneered multimedia formats for nearly three decades, setting a precedent for the work of artists such as Coco Fusco, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, and Daniel J. Martinez. Urban Exile gathers Gamboa's diverse creations in a visually compelling collection that reveals a rich vein of Chicano avant-garde production reaching back to the early 1970s.

Gamboa was a founding...

FALLEN - a collection of poems that evoke emotional and psychological distancing from the edge of the abyss.

PIX presents photographic works by Harry Gamboa Jr. that explore the ephemeral nature of social interaction, reveal the unexpected moments of being allured/repelled, capture the conceptual transcendence of fleeting ideas, and the preserve the powerful presence of those who strike a dramatic pose that lingers in the memory with/without shadows of denial.

Worker Ant is a contemporary visual/text journal that documents and interprets the world from the perspective of 1 of 7 billion worker ants. Environments are marked by experimental international/local trails that are transformed into aspects of critical cultural focus. Memory, dreams, and ideas are the result of the Worker Ant's ceaseless production. Follow the Worker Ant as it traverses an engaging international environment.

Aztlangst 2, a fotonovela written/photographed/designed by Harry Gamboa Jr. and performed by Virtual Verite. Aztlangst 2 satirizes contemporary capitalism, surveillance, and popular culture. Definition: Aztlangst a feeling of deep anxiety or dread, typically an unfocused one about the human condition and/or the state of Aztlan in general... Since 1972, Harry Gamboa Jr. has been actively creating works in various media that documents and interprets the contemporary urban Chicano experience. He co-founded Asco (Spanish for nausea) 1972-1987, the East L.A. conceptual-performance art group. In...