James Luna

James Luna

    James luna is a Mexican-American and Native American performance artist and multimedia installation artist who was born in 1950 and grew up in California. Luna started out as a painter but started to experiment in the performance/ installation art, that he's best known for, for the last 3 decades. 

    Probably his most popular piece of work is the one I've included above called "Artifact Piece" (1987.) In this piece, you can see that James Luna has placed himself inside a glass box and lay very still as if he is himself an artifact. Luna amazes me because of his unique way of putting together seemly unrelated types of art into a feasible project that makes an impression on most who stumble upon it.