Guillermo Bert

Los Angeles-based multi-media artist Guillermo Bert was born in Santiago, Chile in 1959. His bi-cultural experience provides him with a lived perspective from which his artistic expression is cultivated. Bert combines his decades-long practice of working with cultural symbols of urbanism, consumerism, and displacement – dating back to his 1990s iterations of street-level ‘bricolage’ that delved into the urban archaeology of street posters along Los Angeles’s skid row.

Bert has exhibited his work nationally and internationally at museums and galleries including Queens Museum in NY, Palm Springs Museum, Lille3000 in France, Anchorage Museum in Alaska, NevadaMuseum of Art, MoLAA (Museum of Latin American Art), Pasadena Museum of California Art, Museum of Art and Design in New York shows with L.A./L.A. Pacific Standard Time and the Folk and Craft Museum, and UCR (Riverside).

His work has been reviewed nationally and internationally by Smithsonian Magazine, ArtNews Magazine, LA Times, and LA Weekly. He was awarded a COLA individual artist grant from the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department and received the California Community Foundation Fellowship in 2015, the Center for Cultural Innovation Quick Grant for Education in 2015, and the 2010 Master Artist Grant from the National Association of Latino Arts.