Guillermo Galindo
2020 Eureka Fellow
Guillermo Galindo is an experimental composer, sonic architect, performance artist, and visual media artis, who redefines the conventional limits between music, the art of music composition, and the intersections between art disciplines, politics, humanitarian issues, spirituality, and social awareness. His compositions have been performed at the CTM Festival in Berlin; the San Francisco Jazz Festival; San Francisco Electronic Music Festival; and Schrin Kunsthalle in Frankfurt; among many other venues. Galindo’s work has been featured on BBC Outlook in London, NHK World in Japan, Vice Magazine in London and Canada, HFFDK in Germany, RTS in Switzerland, NPR, CBC, Canada, Art in America, Reforma Newspaper, Mexico, CNN, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. His unique collaboration with award-winning photographer and prior Eureka recipient, Richard Misrach (2011-2017), called Border Cantos, became a traveling exhibit and an award-winning book published by Aperture Foundation. Border Cantos features Misrach’s photographs of the U.S./ Mexico border and Galindo’s sonic devices and graphic musical scores created from detritus left behind by immigrants and the border patrol apparatus. Among many other venues, Border Cantos has been shown Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston, MA; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, AR; Pace Gallery in New York, NY; and the San Jose Museum of Art in San Jose, CA. Galindo is presently working on an oratorio about gender issues which will be workshopped and performed and the end of 2020 and developing the work he did for the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time for a larger body of work including sound and three-dimensional art. His individual pieces from Border Cantos will be shown at the Cantor Museum at Stanford University as part of the When Home Won’t Let You Stay exhibit in 2020 and will be presented at the High Line in New York, NY in 2020-21 as part of The Musical Brain exhibit. *Artist biography at time of award.
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