GUILLERMO GOMEZ-PENA / BORDER ART WORKSHOP
Border Art Workshop, formed in 1984, includes artists: Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Emily Hicks, Berta Jottar, Richard A. Lou, Victor Orozco Ochoa, Robrt Sanchez, Michael Schnorr, Liz Sisco, and Rocio Weiss
1955, Mexico, D.E., lives in New York
| BOOKS BY OR ABOUT BORDER ART WORKSHOP | ||
| BAW / TAF 1984 - 1989 [Border Art Workshop / Taler de Arte Fronterizo] (includes documentation - discriptions and history - of the performances, events, and exhibitions taking place between 1984 and 1989 - also includes an interview with Guillermo Gomez-Pena) | Artists Space | 1989 |
| BOOKS BY OR ABOUT GOMEZ-PENA | ||
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| Codex Espangliensis [with Enrique Chagoya and Felicia Rice] | City Lights Books | 2000 |
| Friendly Cannibals [with Enrique Chagoya] | Artspace Books | 1996 |
| ARTICLES AND ESSAYS BY GOMEZ-PENA | ||
| From Art-Maggeddon To Gringostroica | The Hybrid State [catalogue - Exit Art] | 1992 |
| Marcos: The 'Subcommandante of Performance | Third Text, # 28/29, Autumn | 1994 |
| The Free Art Agreement / El Tratado de Libre Cultura | The Subversive Imagination: Artists, Society, & Social Responsibility [Routledge] | 1994 |
| The Multicultural Paradigm: An Open Letter to the National Arts Community | Beyond the Fantastic: Contemporary art criticism from Latin America | 1996 |
| The New World (B)order | Third Text # 21 - The Wake of Utopia, Winter | 1992 |
| The Streets: where Do They Reach? | The Citizen Artist: 20 Years of Art in the Public Arena: An Anthology from High Performance Magazine 1978 - 1998 | 1998 |
| RECORDINGS | ||
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| Radio Pirata: Colon Go Home. A live broadcast from La Pinta Doe (1992) [Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gomez-Pena] | MoCA - The Territory of Art, The Los Angeles Festival | 1992 |
| EPHEMERA | ||
| The Year of the White Bear: Take Two / Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit Madrid [performance by Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gomez-Pena] (post card with image and statement sent to Marsha Tucker by Fusco and Gomez-Pena with an inscription to Tucker] | Self | 1992 |
| CATALOGUES INCLUDING GOMEZ-PENA | ||
| Ante America / Regarding America | Biblioteca Luis-Angel Arango, Bogota | 1992 |
| Arte no es Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 19960-2000 | el Museo del Barrio, New York | 2008 |
| Blurring the Boundries: Installation Art 1969-1996 | Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego | 1996 |
| Breakthroughs: Avant-Garde Artists in Europe and America, 1950-1990 | Wexner Center for the Arts | 1991 |
| Havana Bienal #7 - Septima Bienal de la Habana - Comunicaccion en tiempos dificiles: una mas cerca del otro | Centro Wifredo Lam | 2000 |
| Heart of Darkness | Kroller-Muller Museum-Otterlo | 1994 |
| Outside the Frame: Performance and the Object | Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art | 1994 |
| The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 80s | The New Museum of Contemporary Art / The Studio Museum of Harlem / the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art,, New York | 1990 |
| The Hybrid State | Exit Art, New York | 1992 |
| Whitney Biennial 1993 [Elisabeth Sussman with Thelma Golden, John G. Hanhardt and Lisa Philips]] | Whitney Museum of American Art | 1993 |
| BOOKS INCLUDING GOMEZ-PENA | ||
| Alternative Art New York 1965-1985 | The Drawing Center / University of Minnesota Press | 2002 |
| Art, Activism & Oppositionality: Essays from Afterimage | Duke University Press | 1998 |
| Art and Social Chane: A Critical Reader | Tate Publishing in association with Afterall | 2007 |
| Art Matters: How the Culture Wars Changed America [regarding members of Border Art Workshup] | New York University Press | 1999 |
| Beyond the Fantastic: Contemporary art criticism from Latin America | MIT Press | 1996 |
| But is it Art? The Spirit of Art as Activism | Bay Press | 1995 |
| Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination After 1945 | University of Minnesota Press | 2007 |
| Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas | Routledge | 1999 |
| Creative Time: The Book 33 Years of Public Art in NYC | Princeton Architectural Press | 2007 |
| English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas [Fusco, Coco] | The New Press, New York | 1995 |
| 5000 Artists Return to Artists Space: 25 Years | Artists Space / D.A.P. Press | 1998 |
| Let's Get It On: The Politics of Black Performance | Bay Press | 1995 |
| Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art | Bay Press | 1995 |
| Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America [Lucy Lippard] | Pantheon Books | 1990 |
| One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity | MIT Press | 2004 |
| On the Beaten Tack: tourism, art, and culture | The New Press, New York | 1999 |
| Over Here: International Perspectives on Art and Culture | The New Museum of Contemporary Art and MIT Press | 2004 |
| Performance: Live Art Since 1960 | Harry N. Abrams | 1998 |
| The Bodies That Were Not Ours and other writings [Coco Fusco] | Routledge | 2001 |
| The Citizen Artist: 20 Years of Art in the Public Arena - An Anthology from High Performance Magazine 1978-1998# | Critical Press / D.A.P. | 1998 |
| The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art | MIT Press | 2003 |
| The Lure of the Local: senses of place in a multicentered society | The New Press, New York | 1997 |
| OTHER PUBLICATIONS | ||
| Art Action 1958 - 1998 | Inter Art Actuel et Le Lieu, Centre en Art Actuel, Quebec | 2001 |
| If You Lived Here: The City in Art, Theory, and Social Activism - A Project by Martha Rosler | Bay Press / Dia Art Foundation | 1991 |
| PERIODICALS INCLUDING GOMEZ-PENA | ||
| Art Journal [Africa in the Art of Latin America by Gerardo Mosquera] | Winter | 1992 |
| Third Text, # 28/29 [see articles above] | Autumn | 1994 |
| Third Text #32 - Contaminations [Mapping Differences] | Autumn | 1995 |
| Art Nexus #38 [review of Eventa: Invokes Paradiso, Sweden] | Art Nexus #38 November - January | 2001 |
| Third Text # 7 [The Border Art Workshop / Taller de Arte Fronterizo - Interview with Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Emily Hicks by Coco Fusco] | Third Text, Summer | 1989 |