Guillermo Gómez-Peña

Biography

Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a Mexican/Chicano performance artist, writer, activist, and educator. Gómez-Peña has created work in multiple media, including performance art, experimental radio, video, photography and installation art. His ten books include essays, experimental poetry, performance scripts and chronicles in both English, Spanish and Spanglish.

Movies & TV Shows

1. Frontierland (1995) — Supermojado / NaftAzteca
2. The Couple in the Cage (1993)
3. Border Brujo (1990) — Self
4. Son of Border Crisis (1992) — Self
5. Seeing Is Believing (1992) — Man in Camera Store
6. The Great Mojado Invasion, Part 2 (2011)
7. A Song Often Played on the Radio (2019)
8. Bizarre Thanksgiving Performance Ritual (2013)
9. Instant Identity Ritual (2007)
10. Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency (2025) — Self

Directed

1. A Declaration of Poetic Disobedience from the New Border (2005) — Director
2. Welcome to the Third World (2004) — Director
3. Bizarre Thanksgiving Performance Ritual (2013) — Director
4. Instant Identity Ritual (2007) — Director