Häsler Gómez (b. Guatemala City, Guatemala) is a sculptor and writer who reorients the everyday to explore material, conceptual, and philosophical possibilities. By building reductive, site-responsive networks of unseen labor, 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 to the possibilities held within space, material, and form as well as serve as sites for critical analysis around issues of value, perception, power, and being.
His work has been exhibited widely, including exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art (Richmond, VA), Espacio Cabeza (Guadalajara, Mexico), after / Time (Portland, OR), LVL3 (Chicago, IL), Rump Gallery (Richmond, VA), 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 is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and holds an MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University. He is a recipient of a Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture and has been an artist-in-residence at The Studios at MASS MOCA (North Adams, MA), Visible Records (Charlottesville, VA), and Pollinator (Online).