Guillermo Gómez-Peña

San Francisco, CA

Guillermo Gómez-Peña has spent his life and career focused very intensely on the notion of collaboration across borders, race, gender and generation as an act of citizen diplomacy and a means to create “ephemeral communities.” Gómez-Peña came to the US from Mexico City in 1978. His work -- which includes performance art, video, audio, installations, writing and cultural theory -- explores cross-cultural issues, immigration, the politics of language, "extreme culture" and new technologies in the era of globalization.

Photo Credit: Zach Gross