The work of h.r.g. (b. 1993, Guatemala City, Guatemala) is steeped in issues of desire, and probes the connections and complications between language, history, gender, and control, in an effort to address the mutability of power, identity, and visibility within social and spatial structures.

By building relational works where the architectural body and the viewer’s body become centers of focus, he reframes desire as active, powerful, and at times transgressive. And in recontextualizing the often overlooked and exploited materials and processes embedded within our bodies, built environments, and contemporary art culture, he aims to coax out and all but exhaust their aesthetic, poetic, and ontological potential. For it is through these gestures, that he attunes our attention to the nuances of space, materiality, and form: from the ground we walk on to the water embedded in the air we breathe to the shadows that cling at our feet. 

His work has been exhibited extensively, including exhibitions at Coco Hunday in Tampa Florida; Heaven Gallery in Chicago, IL; Visible Records in Charlottesville, VA; Root Division in San Francisco, CA; Winchester Gallery in Las Vegas, NV; Nuwu Art Gallery in Las Vegas, NV; The Holland Project in Reno, NV; Well Well Projects in Portland, OR; Baitball Art Fair in Polignano a Mare, Italy; Sierra Nevada University in Incline, NV; Other Places Art Fair in San Pedro, CA; Zygote Press in Cleveland, OH; Sky Lab Gallery in Columbus, OH; Aviary Gallery in Boston, MA; Carnation Contemporary in Portland, OR; Tropical Contemporary in Eugene, OR; Axis Gallery in Sacramento, CA; and Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.

He holds a BFA in Studio Art with an emphasis in Sculpture and a BA in Psychology from the University of Nevada, Reno. He is currently based out of Richmond, VA where he is an MFA Candidate in the Sculpture + Extended Media program at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).