Luis González Palma
Luis González Palma is a Guatemalan photographer. 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 in 1957. After training to be an architect at Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, 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 PHotoEspaña 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 Malmö Opera, 2008.Publications
- Luis González Palma. Fabrica.
- Il Silencio Dei Maya. Verona: Peliti, 1998.
- Luis González Palma: Poems of Sorrow. Sante Fe: Arena, 1999. With text by John Wood.
General references
- Becerril, Roxana "Latin American artist creates stories with photos and string."] The Daily Aztec. Retrieved 2020-06-30.
- Giraldo, Sol Astrid Panorama of the Americas. Retrieved 2020-06-30.
- McCabe, Jennifer Daily Serving, An International Publication for Contemporary Art. Retrieved 2020-06-30
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