Born 1974 in Guatemala. Lives and works in Guatemala


Solo exhibitions

2009
“The Body of Others” Modern Art Oxford, Oxford

2008
“Regina Galindo“, Fundacion Ars TEOR/etica, San José, Costa Rica
“Naked Reality”, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, The Netherlands
“America's family prison”, Art Pace San Antonio TX, USA
“Let's Rodeo”, Art Pace San Antonio TX, USA

2007
"Three Actions", curated by Marco Scotini, prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan
“Confession”, performanc, Caja blanca, Palma de Mallorca
“Progetto XX”, prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan & Lucca
“Cepo”, performance, Fondazione Volume!, Rome
“Mientras, ellos siguen libres”, performance, Guatemala

2006
”Recent Works”, Galerie Du Jour Agnes B, Paris
“Corona, más de 6040 asesinatos en el Año de la Paz Plaza Central”, Guatemala
“Peso”, various locations, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
“Tanatosterapia”, Antiguo Palacio de Correos, Guatemala City
“Isla”, Performance, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

2005
“Toque de Queda”, performance, Le Plateau, Paris
“Perra”, performance, prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan

2004
“El Peso de la Sangre”, performance, Plaza Central, Guatemala City

2003
“¿Quién puede borrar las huellas?”, Caminata de la C.C. al Palacio Nacional, Guatemala

2002
“Angelina”, performance, Guatemala

2001
“Sobremesa”, performance & installation, proyecto Jóvenes Creadores Bancafé, Guatemala

1999
“El cielo llora tanto que debería ser mujer”, performance, Belia de Vico Arte Contemporáneo “Gallery”, Guatemala


Group Exhibitions

2008
prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milano
“Narrowcast: Reframing Global Video 1986/2008“, curated by Ciara Ennis and Ming Yuen-S.Ma, Pitzer College Galleries in Claremont, California, LACE in Hollywood, California (travelling exhibition)
“PragueContemporary Art Festival“, Prague
“Video Crítico en América Latina y Caribe“, curated by Laura Baigorri, CCE España, Mexico (travelling exhibition)
“Colectiva Visonarios“, ITAU San Paulo do Brasil, UAM Xochimilco Mexico, Mérida Yucatán, Mexico (travelling exhibition)
“Nehoodoo“, The Menil Collection, PS1 New York, curated by Franklin Sirmans

2007
“La Presencia”, Latin American in the United States, Museum of Latin American Art, Long “Beach”, California
“Kiss Kiss Bang Bang”, Visual Arts Museum, Bilbao 2nd Moscow Biennial, Moscow
“Turbulence”, III Triennial Auckland, New Zealand
“Coercitive Atmospherics”, d.u.m.b.o. arts center, New York, USA
“Beyond the Dust”, The Archaelogical Museum, Naples
“Into me/ Out of me”, Macro, Rome
“Otras Contemporareidades”, Valencia Biennale, Valencia, Spain
“Timer”, Triennale Bovisa, Milan
“Global Feminism”, Brooklyn Museum, New York
“Lo que las imágenes quieren”, Video de Hispanoamérica, Fundación ICO, Madrid
“Hay algo revolucionario en esto”, Sala Parpalló, Valencia, Spain
“Adiós Identidad”, Centro Cultural de España, Guatemala
“Viva la muerte”, Kunsthalle Wien
“Going staying”, Kunstmuseum Bonn

2006
“Venice-Istanbul”, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul
“Into me/ Out of me”, Kunstwerke, Berlin
“Into me/ Out of me”, P.S.1 New York, USA
“Plomo”, Cisneros-Fontanals Art foundation, Miami, USA
“Mankind: The Story of a Wound”, SMAK & CRKC, Leuven
“Eretica”, Complesso di Sant’Anna, Palermo, Italy
“Es mou et mou”, galeria CANEM, Castellon, Spain
“The Power of the Women”, Galleria Civica di Trento, Trento, Italy
“I Biennial of Architecture”, Art and Landscape, Canary Islands (Spain)
“Estrecho Dudoso”, Teorética, Costa Rica
“Courants Alternatifs”, PARVIS Paris, Bordeaux
“Biennale Adriática”, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy
“Semiotics and Performance of Gender”, World Psychiatric Congress, Istanbul
“The Pain of Others”, Miami, USA
“Mash”, Miami, USA
“Un espejo para la pequena muerte”, performance, Estrecho Dudosa, Teoretica, Costa Rica
1st Architecture Biennial, Art Landscape, Canarian Islands
“Camisa de fuerza”, performance, Mens, SMAK, Gent
“Carnada”, Performance, Al Limite, S.to Domingo, R.D.
“Action Zone”, prometeogallery di
Ida Pisani, Balelatina, Basel
“Yesoterapia”, performance, Barcelò Nuevas Propuestas, Dominican Republic
“Courants Alternatifs”, PARVIS, Paris, Bordeaux
Biennale Adriatica, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy
“Jukebox2, LOOP Video Festival, CCCB Barcelona

2005
“Always a Little Further”, 51st Venice Biennial, Italy
“Vertigo”, Performance, 3rd Tirana Biennial, Albania
“Recorte por la Línea” performance, together with Dr.Billy Spence Festival Mundial de Arte Corporal Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas
ARCO Art Fair, Madrid, Spain
Prague Biennial, Prague, Czech Republic
“Picacebollas” Performance, Fuega de Lugar, Dominican Republic

2004
“Milenium”, Guatemalan Contemporary peinture, Modern Art Museum, Guatemala
“Produciendo Realidad”, Associazione Prometeo, Lucca, Italy
“Himenoplastía”, performance, Colectiva Cinismo, Contexto, Guatemala
“Todo Incluido”, imágenes Urbanas de Centro América, Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain
“Boda Galindo-Herrera”, performance, Comunicarte e Invitados, Casa Santo Domingo, Antigua Guatemala

2003
“A Puño Limpio”, performance, Días Mejores, Cultural Center of Spain, Guatemala
“Proxémica”, performance, Días Mejores, Cultural Center of Spain, San José, Costa Rica
“Ella permanece”, Maternidades Plus, Center of Spanish Culture, Guatemala

2002
“Sin Título, (Hasta Ver)”, 3rd Lima Biennial of Contemporary Arts
“Angelina”, Nacional Selection, Colloquia, Guatemala
“Lucha”, Blanco & Negro group exhibition, Edificio de Correos, Guatemala

2001
“Tendencia del Lodo”, Group exhibition, Galería Sol del Río, Guatemala
“10 piedras de Crack”, Contemporary sculpture of Guatemala, Nacional Theatre, Guatemala
“Piel”, 49th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
“Bandera Nuestra”, Group exhibition Suyo-Ajeno, Ex-Teresa Actual Art, México D.F

2000
“Encierros”, Colectiva Paréntesis, (PAI) Zoológico Nacional La Aurora, Guatemala
“Todos estamos muriendo”, Simposio Centroamericano Temas Centrales,TEOR/ética, Costa Rica
“Valium 10ml”, Vivir Aquí Group exhibition, Museo Ixchel, Guatemala
“No perdemos nada con nacer”, 9th Festival Performance, Ex-Teresa, Zócalo, México DF
“No perdemos nada con nacer”, Festival Octubre Azul, Basurero Municipal, Guatemala
“Esperando al príncipe azul”, Tripiarte Group exhibition, Festival Octubre Azul, Edificio de Correros, Guatemala

1999
“Lo voy a gritar al viento”, 2nd Festival del Centro Histórico, Arco de Correos, Guatemala
“El dolor en un pañuelo”, Sin Pelos en la Lingua Group exhibition, (PAI) Plaza G&T, Guatemala


Awards

2006
“Cisneros Fontanals”, Art Foundation, 2006

2005
“Gold Lion”, Artist under 35, 51st Venice Biennial,

1999
“Ganador del Proyecto Jóvenes Creadores”, BANCAFE

1998
Unico de Poesía Prize, Myrna Mack Fundation


Residences

2008
Art Pace San Antonio TX, USA

2005
Le Plateau, Paris


Poetry

2004
“Mujer, Cuerpo y Palabra”, Antología de Poetas Guatemaltecas, Torremozas Publishing house, Spain

2000
“Personal e Intransmisible”, Coloquia Publishing house, Guatemala

2002
“Mujer, Desnudez y Palabras”, Antología Mujeres Poetas, Guatemala

2001
“Voces de Post-Guera”, Antology young poets from Guatemala, Guatemala
“Mujeres que Cuentan”, Antología Mujeres Cuentistas Guatemaltecas, Guatemala

1999
“Tanta imagen tras la puerta”, Antología Poetas Jóvenes Guatemaltecos, Guatemala

1998
“Para conjurar el sueño”, Antología Poetas Guatemaltecas, Guatemala


Theatre

“Los Perturbados entre Lilas”, Playwrite in one part, dedicated to Alejandra Pizarnik, Edificio de Correos, Guatemala


Selected Bibliography

2008
Text by Fernando Contreras Castro, http://redcultura.com/blogs/index.php?blog=11&title=regina_galindo_conjura_la_muerte_con_cab&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

2007
EXIT
100 Latin American Artists

2006
Regina José Galindo, Vanillaedizioni, Italy
Text by Emiliano Valdes, Contemporary Annual

2005
BOMB Magazine
Interview with Francisco Goldman, New York


ARTNEXUS
Article by Mariana David
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EXIBART online
Review on Exhibition at Prometeogallery 2005 (PERRA Action)
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FLASH ART
Interview with Ilaria Bombelli. 51 Venice Biennale
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IL MANIFESTO
Article by Arianna di Genova on the 51 Venice Biennale
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ART IN AMERICA
Review on the 51 Venice Biennial, Mention of Regina Galindo’s Lion Award
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LITERATURA GUATEMALTECA
“El cuerpo políticamente incorrecto” Text by Rosina Cazali
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LITERATURA GUATEMALTECA
Texts by Moises Barrios &Thomas Micchelli
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KULT Magazine
Article by Lorenza Pignatti, December 2005
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ARTE Magazine
Article by Cristina Campanini
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WORK, Art in Progress, N.15 Article by Caroline Bourgeois

Latin American Literature and Arts No.62

Profile of Regina Jose Galindo on the Phillips Art Expert homepage
Phillips Art Expert