Regina José Galindo Guatemala, b. 1974

Visual artist and poet who uses performance as her main medium. Galindo lives and works in Guatemala, using her own context as a starting point to explore and denounce the ethical implications of social violence and injustices related to racial and gender discrimination, as well as human rights abuses stemming from endemic inequalities within power relations of contemporary societies.

She received the Golden Lion for Best Young Artist at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005 and the Prince Claus Award of the Netherlands in 2011. She has participated in the 49th, 53rd and 54th Venice Biennale; Documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel; 9th International Biennial of Cuenca; or the Shanghai Biennale in 2016. Her work is present in various public collections, such as TATE London; The Pompidou Foundation; Guggenheim's Collection; or the Rivoli Museum, Turin.