Research Guides: Art on the Davidson College Campus: Featured Sculptors and Artists: Regina José Galindo

About Regina José Galindo

Regina José Galindo (b. 1974) is a Guatemalan performance artist. Her work, according to her website's biography, focuses on "the ethical implication of social violence and injustices related to gender and racial discrimination, as well as human rights abuses arising from the endemic inequalities in power relations of contemporary societies," including her home country. Galindo's works, which have been displayed in exhibits across the world, often include videos and performances featuring her own body which she manipulates into representations of political activism against widespread injustice and atrocities.

For more information about Regina José Galindo, please see the following:

Extensión

Regina José Galindo, Extensión, 2008. Human hair. Davidson College.

Works by Regina José Galindo

Museum of Modern Art
Works, articles, exhibitions, and publications, by Galindo from MoMA in New York.
RoFa Gallery
Bio and selected works by Galindo from the RoFa Gallery in Potomac, MD.
Brooklyn Museum
Bio and works by Galindo from the Brooklyn Museum in New York.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Bio, images, videos, and more by Galindo from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
Prometeo Gallery
Bio and selected works by Galindo from Prometeo Gallery in Milan, Italy.

Articles about Regina Jose Galindo

Regina José Galindo's Body Talk: Performing Feminicide and Violence against Women in "279 Golpes"
Journal article on Galindo's performance art surrounding violence against women in Guatemala, by Emilia Barbosa from Latin American Perspectives in 2014.
Naked Reality on the Work of Regina Galindo
Article on Galindo's performance art centering around her own (often naked) body, by Rosina Cazali from ArtNexus in 2010.
After the Digital We Rematerialise: Distance and Violence in the Work of Regina Jose Galindo
Article on Galindo's expanding artistic practice and the influence of digital technology on her work, by Carolin Clare from Third Text in 2011.
Body of Work
Article on multiple female artists, including Galindo, who use their own bodies in their work, by Jacqueline Houton from Bitch Magazine: Feminist Response to Pop Culture in 2009.
Regina José Galindo
Interview with Galindo on her performative works against violence in Guatemala, by Francisco Goldman from BOMB Magazine in 2006.
How an Artist Can Embody Human Rights
Article and images of Galindo's solo show "The Body" at the The Watermill Center in NY, by Annabel Keenan from Hyperallergic in 2023.
In Conversation with Regina José Galindo: “I Am Not A Vulnerable Woman”
Short interview with Galindo on her performance works, by Judith Waldmann from Contemporary and América Latina in 2018.

Books about Regina José Galindo

Mujer, cuerpo y palabra: Tres décadas de re-creación del sujeto de la poeta guatemalteca: Muestra poética, 1973-2003 by Myron Alberto Avila
Collection of poetry from female Guatemalan artists, including Galindo, over three decades (published in 2004, written in Spanish).
The Multimedia Works of Contemporary Latin American Women Writers and Artists by Sarah E. L. Bowskill, Jane E. Lavery, Ana Clavel, Eugenia Prado Bassi, Eli Neira, Regina José Galindo, Carla Faesler, Mónica Nepote, Pilar Acevedo, and Gabriela Golder
Book on the multimedia practices of female artists and scholars, including Galindo, that "proposes new critical approaches to new forms of expression which encapsulate rich transnational cultural flows and grass-roots political activism" (published in 2023, quotation from book description).
And Another Thing: Nonanthropocentrism and Art by Emmy Mikelson and Katherine Behar
Book of essays, illustrations, and meditations on the artists, including Galindo, featured in the authors' 2011 exhibition on nonanthropocentrism and contemporary philosophy in art (published in 2016).
Human and Environmental Justice in Guatemala by Stephen Henighan and Candace Johnson
Book from Guatemalan scholars and activists, including Galindo, on the post-civil war political protests in the form of literature, media, war crime prosecution, performance art, and more (published in 2018).
Theatre and Cartographies of Power: Repositioning the Latina/o Americas by Jimmy A. Noriega and Analola Santana
Book on a variety of Latin American theater and performance artists and scholars, including Galindo, which aims to "reconsider geographical space and power" and "reposition the Latina/o Americas in ways that offer agency to its multiple peoples, cultures, and histories" (published in 2018, quotation from book description).
An Introduction to the Phenomenology of Performance Art: SELF/s by T. J. Bacon
Book introducing, defining, and guiding the practice of performance art, with chapters on related artists, including Galindo (published in 2022).
Documentary by Julian Stallabrass
Survey of artists, including Galindo, whose documentation-based photograph and video works have brought representations of violence, crisis, and injustice to galleries and museums (published in 2013).
Performance, Feminism, and Affect in Neoliberal Times by Elin Diamond, Denise Varney, and Candice Amich
Book providing "insight into global attitudes towards feminist expression in the arts" and the politics that shape the work of performance artists, including Galindo (published in 2017, quotation from book description).

Exhibition Catalogs from Regina José Galindo

Regina José Galindo
Catalog of Galindo's exhibition at the Prometeo Gallery di Ida Pisan in Milan, Italy in 2011.
The Body
Catalog of Galindo's solo exhibition at the Watermill Center in Water Mill, NY in 2023 (PDF of guide available).
Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art
Catalog of a group exhibition featuring female contemporary artists, including Galindo, from across the world at the Brooklyn Museum in NY and the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA in 2007.
SIGNALS: How Video Transformed the World
Catalog of the group exhibition from artists, including Galindo, who focus on the ubiquity, usefulness, consequences, and world-wide reach of video technology at the Museum of Modern Art in NY in 2023.

Videos of Regina José Galindo

Artist Video: Regina José Galindo, La víctima y el victimario (English captioned) on the political and historical events influencing her work from the Guggenheim Museum in 2015.

LASS Interview Regina José Galindo talk with the artist about her performance works on violence, discrimination, and social justice from the Latin American-Canadian Arts Project in 2014.

Regina José Galindo. Piel de gallina en Artium talk on the artist's first large exhibition in Spain from Artium Museoa in 2012 (in Spanish).

REGINA JOSE GALINDO : THE ANATOMY LESSON tour of the artist's exhibition at the Jakopič gallery in Ljubljana, Slovenia from Aljoša Abrahamsberg in 2013.

"Big Bang" by Regina José Galindo, June 25, 2014 video of the artist's performance from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2014.

Regina José Galindo, Desecho, 2017, 13 minutes. video of the artist's performance at the Zona Maco-México Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City by the Getty Foundation in 2017.