From the ground we walk on to the water embedded in the air we breathe to the shadows that cling to our feet, the work of h.r.g. (b. Guatemala City, Guatemala) is steeped in issues of desire, labor, and visibility. By building entangled systems of unseen performance, sound, light, architectural intervention, and objects, he creates speculative spaces and encounters rooted in the inherent realities of materials, objects, and bodies. Gómez makes reductive work that reorients the everyday to explore material, conceptual, and philosophical possibilities. These gestures direct our attention for deep, empathetic looking, and to the possibilities held within space, material, and form. Ultimately recalibrating the way we look and by extension care, his practice impacts how we encounter one another, recognizing that these relations reflect broader systems of power and oppression in our culture at large.
His work has been exhibited extensively, including exhibitions at After / Time (Portland, OR), Material Room (Richmond, VA), Coco Hunday (Tampa, FL), Heaven Gallery (Chicago, IL), Root Division (San Francisco, CA), Nuwu Art Gallery (Las Vegas, NV), The Holland Project (Reno, NV), Baitball Art Fair (Polignano a Mare, Italy), Other Places Art Fair (San Pedro, CA), Zygote Press (Cleveland, OH), Sky Lab Gallery (Columbus, OH), Aviary Gallery (Boston, MA), Carnation Contemporary (Portland, OR), Axis Gallery (Sacramento, CA), and Trestle Gallery (Brooklyn, NY). Recent awards include the 2025 Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture, a Graduate Research Grant, a VCUarts Graduate Travel Grant, and a Graduate School Travel Grant from the the Pollak Society, the School of the Arts, and the graduate school, respectively, at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Gómez holds an MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University, a BFA in Studio Art and a BA in Psychology from the University of Nevada, Reno. He will be an artist in residence at The Studios at MASS MOCA this coming winter with support from the Virginia Commonwealth University MFA Fellowship.