Luis González Palma (1957) is a Guatemalan

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. Much of his work "has revolved around the strange hybrids of race and culture that add up to Latin America."

Life and work

Luis González Palma, was born in

Guatemala City Guatemala City ( es, Ciudad de Guatemala), known locally as Guatemala or Guate, is the capital and largest city of Guatemala, and the most populous urban area in Central America. The city is located in the south-central part of the country, ne ...

, Guatemala in 1957. After training to be an architect at

Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala The Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (USAC, ''University of San Carlos of Guatemala'') is the largest and oldest university of Guatemala; it is also the fourth founded in the Americas. Established in the Kingdom of Guatemala during the Spani ...

, he began a career in photography and video. 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. He was awarded the Gran Premio

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award in 1999, exhibited his work in the 49th and 51st Venice Biennale, and contributed to the production of ''The Death and the Maiden'' in the

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, 2008.

Publications

*''Luis González Palma.'' Fabrica. *''Il Silencio Dei Maya.'' Verona: Peliti, 1998. *''Luis González Palma: Poems of Sorrow.'' Santa Fe: Arena, 1999. With text by John Wood.

References

General references

*Becerril, Roxana (23 October 201
) "Latin American artist creates stories with photos and string."
The Daily Aztec. Retrieved 2020-06-30. *Giraldo, Sol Astrid (n.date
"Luis González Palma : The Body's Resistance."
Panorama of the Americas. Retrieved 2020-06-30. * *McCabe, Jennifer (24 June 2015

Daily Serving, An International Publication for Contemporary Art. Retrieved 2020-06-30 *
Luis Gonzalez Palma Permanent Collection North Dakota Museum of Art

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gonzalez Palma, Luis Guatemalan photographers Latin American artists of indigenous descent Mestizo photographers 1957 births Living people People from Guatemala City 20th-century Guatemalan people 21st-century Guatemalan people Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala alumni