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Luis Gonzales Palma

Casco II, 1994

gelatin silver print with asphaltum

signed, titled, dated, and numbered 7/15 in pencil, verso

19 1/4" x 19 5/8 "


Luis González Palma, was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala in 1957. After training to be an architect[2] at Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala,[3] he began a career in photography and video.[4]

His first individual exhibition, Autoconfesion, was in 1989 at the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, and had a breakthrough at the Houston FotoFest in 1992.[5][6] He was awarded the Gran Premio PHotoEspaña award in 1999, exhibited his work in the 49th and 51st Venice Biennale,[6] and contributed to the production of The Death and the Maiden in the Malmö Opera, 2008.[7]

Publications

  • Luis González Palma. Fabrica.[7]

  • Il Silencio Dei Maya. Verona: Peliti, 1998.[7]

  • Luis González Palma: Poems of Sorrow. Santa Fe: Arena, 1999. With text by John Wood.[

Collections

  • Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA.

  • Akron Museum of Art, Akron, OH, USA.

  • Banco Industrial Guatemala.

  • Berlin Museum, Berlin, Germany.

  • Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Bogota, Colombia.

  • Casa de las Américas, La Habana, Cuba.

  • Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, México.

  • Centro de Artes Visuales, Museo del Barro, Asunción, Paraguay.

  • Centro de Estudios Fotográficos, Vigo, Spain.

  • Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ USA.

  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio USA.

  • Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH Dayton Institute of Art, Dayton, OH, USA.

  • Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, USA.

  • DAROS Latin America, Zurich, Switzerland.

  • Dayton Institute of Art, Dayton, OH, USA.

  • Department of Special Collections of Stanford University Libraries, CA


    USA

  • DePauw University, Greencastle, IN USA.

  • Deutsche Bank AG, New York, USA.

  • Essex Collection of Art from Latin America, UK.

  • Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China.

  • Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA.

  • Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria, Cantabria, España.

  • Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA USA.

  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX USA.

  • National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA.

  • North Dakota Museum of Art, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA.

  • Peabody Essex Museum of Salem, MA, USA.

  • Phoenix Museum of Fine Arts, AZ, USA.

  • RISD Museum,  Providence Rhode Island, NY. USA.

  • Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri, USA.

  • San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, CA, USA.

  • Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA USA.

  • Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art , Arizona, USA.

  • Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA.

  • Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA.

  • Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA,USA.

  • Texas Tech University, Houston, TX. USA.

  • The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx,NY USA.

  • The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, The George Eastman House, USA..

  • The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN USA.

  • The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec, Canada.

  • University Art Museum, AZ State University, Tempe, AZ USA.

  • Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Virgiania, USA.

  • William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Store, CT Yale University, New Haven,CT  USA.

  • Taylor Museum, Colorado Springs Fine Arts, USA.


Luis González Palma

Guatemalan 1957


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