Emerging Artist: Regina Jose Galindo

28 July 2008

Regina José Galindo, "Peso", 2006

Regina José Galindo is a Guatemalan performance artist who is known for pushing the boundries with her controversial work. Galindo refers to her body "not as an individual body but as a social body, collective body, universal body". She creates projects "which are only an intention of reality, and at the same time, an intention of fiction. I mean projects which are born from the reality, but do not make it happen again, they just re-make it creating a parallel reality."

Regina Jose Galindo, "Quién Puede Borrar las Huellas?", 2003

She gained fame for her performance titled,"Quién Puede Borrar las Huellas?"("Who Can Erase the Traces"), in which she walked with feet dipped in human blood from the Congress of Guatemala building to the National Palace. The performance was a protest against the presidential candidacy of Guatemala’s former dictator, José Efraín Ríos Montt.

Regina José Galindo, "Isla", 2006

Galindo lives and works in Guatemala and is currently represented by Prometeogallery in Milan. She received the Golden Lion award in the "Artist under 35" category at the Venice Biennale in 2005. Additionally in 2008 she has had solo exhibitions at the Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem in the Netherlands, and at Artpace in San Antonio, Texas.