Häsler Gómez (b. Guatemala City, Guatemala) is a sculptor and writer. His reductive work reorients the everyday to explore material, conceptual, and philosophical possibilities. By building site-responsive systems of unseen performance, sound, light, architectural intervention, language, and objects, he creates speculative spaces and encounters rooted in the inherent realities of materials, objects, and bodies. These gestures direct our attention for deep, empathetic looking, and to the possibilities held within space, material, and form as well as serve as sites for critical analysis around issues of value, perception, and being.
His work has been exhibited widely, including exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art (Richmond, VA), Espacio Cabeza (Guadalajara, MX), after / Time (Portland, OR), bronx river art center (bronx, ny), 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).
Häsler holds an MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University as well as a BFA in sculpture and a BA in Psychology from the University of Nevada, Reno. He is a recipient of the 2025 Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture and is an alumni of The Studios at MASS MOCA residency program. He will be a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture this coming summer.