Guillermo Galindo
Location:
Bay Area, California / Mexico City
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Post-Mexican artist Guillermo Galindo is an experimental composer, sonic architect, performance artist, and visual media artist whose work redefines the conventional limits between music, music composition, interdisciplinary practices, politics, humanitarian issues, spirituality, and social awareness.
Galindo’s work has been featured on: BBC Outlook (London), NHK World (Japan),Vice Magazine (London), HFFDK (Germany), RTS (Switzerland), NPR and City Arts and Lectures (U.S.).
This year (2024) he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and presently holds a senior adjunct teaching position at the California College of Arts in San Francisco. He has also been a Mohr Visiting Artist at Stanford University (2018) and has been a resident artist at Vanderbilt University and at the Rollins Cornell Arts Museum where he has been a Thomas P. Johnson Distinguished Visiting Scholar.
His work includes solo instrumental works, operas, sonic sculptures, visual arts, computer interaction works, electro-acoustic music, film, instrument building, three-dimensional immersive installations, and live improvisation. His graphic scores and three-dimensional sculptural cyber-totemic sonic objects have been shown at museums and art biennials in America, Europe, and Asia, and are in the permanent collections of major museums such as LACMA in Los Angeles and The National Gallery in Washington DC.