Guillermo Galindo Mexican-American, b. 1960
Guillermo Galindo is an experimental composer, sonic architect, and performance and visual artist whose work redefines the conventional limits between music and art. His multidisciplinary approach explores politics, heritage, humanitarian issues, spirituality, and social awareness.
Galindo’s work is in the permanent collections of the National Gallery, Washington D.C.; LACMA, Los Angeles, CA; de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Thomas Foundation Art Museum, Santa Fe, NM; and Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park, FL.
Galindo is a recipient of the Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Grant, a 2022 SFMOMA SECA Award Finalist, 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, and 2025 Roswell Artist-in-residence.
Most recently, Galindo exhibited a three-part installation responding to Picasso’s Guernica (1937) at SITE Santa Fe, and had a solo exhibition at the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art in Roswell, New Mexico.
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Hung Liu's Mixed Mediations and Guillermo Galindo's Tortoise
On view January 14 – February 28 | Opening Ceremony Saturday, January 17th, 4-6PM January 3, 2026Opening Wednesday, January 14th, Qualia Contemporary Art presents Hung Liu: Mixed Mediations and Guillermo Galindo: Tortoise , two concurrent exhibitions on view in the gallery....Read more -
San Francisco Art Week 2026 adds nearly 20 new participants for largest edition yet
Nov 13, 2025– By Tony Bravo, Arts & Culture Columnist November 13, 2025San Francisco Art Week is scaling up to be the largest yet, with organizers boasting nearly 20 additional participants, including two new art fairs to...Read more -
Guillermo Galindo at SITE Santa Fe's "Once Within a Time"
Open June 27, 2025, through January 12, 2026 July 30, 2025The 12th SITE SANTA FE International, Once Within a Time is an ambitious, citywide exhibition placing works by local, national, and international artists in dialogue...Read more
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Guillermo Galindo: Tortoise
messages, variations, interpretations 14 Jan - 28 Feb 2026Tortoise is a solo exhibition of new work by Mexican-American composer, visual artist, and experimental musician Guillermo Galindo. The exhibition continues Galindo’s exploration of borders – metaphysical, geographic, political, philosophical,...Read more -
Guillermo Galindo: Transonic
20 Jul - 2 Sep 2022Bay Area artist and composer Guillermo Galindo’s work engages with the practice of sonic healing, rooted in his post-Mexican heritage and his ongoing study of pre-Columbian traditions. Combining his experimental...Read more -
Resonance
3 Jun - 30 Jul 2021Resonance is a group exhibition curated by Xiaoze Xie, featuring works by Terry Berlier, Paul DeMarinis, Guillermo Galindo, and Hu Xiangcheng, whose work explores the transformative relationship between vision and...Read more
