Since 1972, Harry Gamboa Jr. has been actively creating works in various media that document and interpret the contemporary urban Chicano experience. He was a co-founder of Asco (Spanish for nausea) 1972-1987, the East L.A. conceptual-performance art group. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally: Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland (2009); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2008, 2001); Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City (2006); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2006); 1995 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art. His work has been featured in numerous publications: Los Angeles Times; The New York Times; Reforma (Mexico City); Artforum; Art in America; Frieze (London); The Wall Street Journal; The Journal of American Drama and Theatre. He is the author of: Urban Exile: Collected Writings of Harry Gamboa Jr. (ed. Chon A. Noriega) University of Minnesota Press 1998 ISBN 0-8166-3052-6 paper ISBN 0-8166-3051-8 cloth