Bio
Gabe Haro (he/him/his) works out of the San Francisco bay area and is a current undergraduate student of Urban Studies and Art Practice at Stanford University. He was born and raised in San Luis Potosí, Mexico after which he spent his teenage years in Austin TX. Gabe has shared his work online as well as in a variety of shows throughout Stanford. These include the annual juried undergraduate show, independently organized group shows, and the gallery he and his roommate run and curate in their room.
Artist Statement
My work explores issues of place, body, mind, and heritage within the tension between artificiality and authenticity. My process begins with a performative approach to image-making - I often bases sources on constructed scenarios that interpose contrived bodies, symbolic objects, and human-built (and perhaps subsequently human-decayed) spaces. These images reflect hypothetical realities edging on the humorous and the macabre, eliciting a sense of ambivalence between poignancy and absurdity. Featured in much of my work is an alter ego that attempts to reinterpret my identity and personal history while challenging what it means to authentically reclaim one’s past. Issues of dual nationality, gender, queerness, and mental health serve as deeply personal drives that are transfigured and reexamined through my art. I turn my own photography and videos into collaged and transformed pastiches that reimagine the world in which they were created, employing a new logic to understand my experiences as they are witnessed and constructed.
Gabe Haro (he/him/his) works out of the San Francisco bay area and is a current undergraduate student of Urban Studies and Art Practice at Stanford University. He was born and raised in San Luis Potosí, Mexico after which he spent his teenage years in Austin TX. Gabe has shared his work online as well as in a variety of shows throughout Stanford. These include the annual juried undergraduate show, independently organized group shows, and the gallery he and his roommate run and curate in their room.
Artist Statement
My work explores issues of place, body, mind, and heritage within the tension between artificiality and authenticity. My process begins with a performative approach to image-making - I often bases sources on constructed scenarios that interpose contrived bodies, symbolic objects, and human-built (and perhaps subsequently human-decayed) spaces. These images reflect hypothetical realities edging on the humorous and the macabre, eliciting a sense of ambivalence between poignancy and absurdity. Featured in much of my work is an alter ego that attempts to reinterpret my identity and personal history while challenging what it means to authentically reclaim one’s past. Issues of dual nationality, gender, queerness, and mental health serve as deeply personal drives that are transfigured and reexamined through my art. I turn my own photography and videos into collaged and transformed pastiches that reimagine the world in which they were created, employing a new logic to understand my experiences as they are witnessed and constructed.