González Palma, Luis

He was raised in Guatemala, where he studied architecture and cinematography at the University of San Carlos. His life changed when he bought a camera in 1984, which deeply sparked his enthusiasm upon seeing the results. He has participated in collective exhibitions such as the 49th and 51st Venice Biennale, the Vigo Photobiennial, the XXIII São Paulo Biennale in Brazil, the Havana Biennial, at the Ludwig Forum for International Art in Aachen, Germany; The Taipei Art Museum in Korea, the Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina; the Daros Foundation in Zurich, Switzerland; the Conde Duque Palace in Madrid, Spain; and Fargfabriken in Stockholm, Sweden. His work is included in various public and private collections, including The Art Institute of Chicago, The Daros Foundation in Zurich, Switzerland, La Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, The Houston Museum of Fine Arts in the USA, the Foundation pour l'Art Contemporain in Paris, France; the Fondazione Volume! in Rome, Italy; the Luis Angel Arango Library in Bogotá, Colombia; The Fogg Museum at Harvard University, and The Minneapolis Institute of Art in Minneapolis, USA; Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan. He received the Grand Prize PHotoEspaña "Baume et Mercier" in 1999 and collaborated on the staging of the opera production "The Death and the Maiden" at the Malmö Opera in Sweden in 2008. He has four monographs of his work published, among which "Poems of Sorrow" by Arena Ediciones, "The Silence of the Gaze" by Pelliti Editions in Rome, "Luis González Palma" by La Fábrica Editions, Spain, "You/My Pleasure" in collaboration with Graciela De Oliveira, Editorial Documenta/Escénicas, Córdoba, Argentina, "Möbius" by the University of Navarra Museum, Tender Puentes project, Spain.