Regina José Galindo

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Regina José Galindo
A 2005 promotional photo of Galindo
Born	1974 Guatemala City, Guatemala
Occupation	Performance artist

Regina José Galindo (1974- ) is a Guatemalan performance artist who specializes in body art. She was born in Guatemala City.

Contents 1 Performances 2 Recognition 3 List of works 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Performances

She first gave two performances in Guatemala in 1999, and gained international fame. One of her well-known acts include ¿Quién Puede Borrar las Huellas? (Translated: "Who Can Erase the Traces"), made in 2003, in which she walked from the Congress of Guatemala building to the National Palace, dipping her bare feet at intervals in a white recipient full of human blood, as a vigorous protest against the presidential candidacy of Guatemala’s former dictator José Efraín Ríos Montt.^[1]

Another of her notable work was titled Perra, made in 2005, which she carved the Spanish word perra on her legs, in protest of violence against women.^[2]

[edit] Recognition

Galindo received the Golden Lion award at the Venice Biennale in 2005, in the category of “artists under 30”, for her video Himenoplastia,^[3] this is a work that, nevertheless, got a particularly hostile reception during its first showing in Guatemala, in 2004. The work itself was controversial that it depicted surgical reconstruction of the artist’s hymen.^[4]

A monographic collection of Galindo’s performance work has been published in Italy (Vanilla Edizioni, 2006). Galindo is also a writer of poetry and narrative; she received the Myrna Mack’s Foundation 1998 Premio Unico de Poesía, in Guatemala, for Personal e intransmisible (Scripta Coloquia, 2000).

[edit] List of works

This is a list of some of her performances: