His poetry has been partially translated into English, French and Romanian, and published in academic literary magazines such as the Revista de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española, the Latino Book Review, Multicultural Echoes Literary Magazine (California State University in Chico), Enclave, Revista de Creación Literaria en Español (the City University of New York-CUNY), and in cultural magazines ViceVersa, Letralia, Todoliteratura, The Chesterton Review, Nueva York Poetry Review, Cronopios, Kametsa, Nagari and Terre a Ciel.

With his wife Priscilla Gac-Artigas, professor of Latin American literature at Monmouth University, NJ, he is the owner and curator of the exhibit Memories, Geography of a Decade: Chile 1973-1983.

Prints are by three National Art Award winners: José Balmes, Guillermo Núñez, & Gracia Barrios, and by Alejandro Marcos, Ernest Pignon-Ernest, and Eduardo Berroeta; posters, which retrace a decade of cultural solidarity events in Europe, by artists e.g. Miró & Ottaviano; photos of the coup are by former Gamma news agency journalists; and TRCh theater pictures are professional photos showing the evolution of a theater group forced to create in exile.

In 1968 Gac-Artigas travelled to Bulgaria to participate in the Democratic Youth World Festival and to Czechoslovakia invited by the government of the time to observe the changes introduced during the Prague Spring.

Upon his return to Chile, he dropped out of college and embarked on a trip through Latin America performing in different countries with a documentary theater play called Poetry Mail.

[9] In 1971 he returned to Chile where he founded and directed the experimental Theatre del Cobre (TEC)[10] in the Cultural House of El Teniente copper mine during the government of Salvador Allende.

He was released from jail months later, and taken to Santiago where, with a deportation order and a travel document issued by the Red Cross, he left the country for exile in Paris.

[13] There, along with Colombian actress Perla Valencia, he founded the group Théâtre de la Résistance-Chili (then Nuevo Teatro Los Comediantes), with which he toured Europe and participated in international festivals such as: Nancy, Avignon, Ljubljana, Hammamet, Djendouba, Tabarka, Hammam Lift, Yverdon, Bern, Zurich and Stagedoor Festival[14] among others.

In 1984 he tried to return to Chile, but on September the 5th of that year his name appeared on a list of about 5,000 people forbidden from entering the country for representing "a danger to the internal security of the State".

[15] This unsuccessful endeavor led him and his group to traverse Latin America, journeying from Buenos Aires to Bogota and passing through Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador.

After engaging in a hunger strike, Gac-Artigas was sent back to Europe - Rotterdam this time, rather than Paris, as he had lost his political refugee status in France due to a year-long absence.

[16] In 2018 his novel Y todos éramos actores, un siglo de luz y sombra (And All of Us Were Actors, A Century Of Light And Shadow) (2016),[17][18] English edition translated by Andrea G. Labinger was second runner up for the ILBA (International Latino Book Award 2018) in the category of Best Fiction Book in Translation - Spanish to English.

·     Santus Dionysius Exiguus Oivius y Coroana de Aur Ovidius (Academia Tomitana) ·     Premiul pentru Poezie (Academias Tomitana y Universalis Poetarum) ·     Honorary Mention: International Latino Book Award (ILBA) 2024 for Confieso que escribo / I Confess That I Write and for hombre de américa/man of the américas ·     Premio del XIII Festival Mundial de Poesía Mihai Eminescu 2024 ·     Cultural Ambassador (Fundación europea Mihai Eminescu y Academia internacional Mihai Eminescu) ·     Honored Poet of the 17th Hispanic/Latino Book Fair Queens, 2023 ·     Proclamation from the New York City Council for his outstanding achievements in literature, 2023 ·     Citation from the New York State Assembly for his trajectory as an experienced writer, poet, novelist, and playwright, 2023 ·     Finalist, International Book Award 2023: category “contemporary poetry”, for poetry collection hombre de américa/man of the Americas, Nueva York Poetry Press 2022, translated by Andrea G. Labinger and Priscilla Gac-Artigas ·     Proclamation from the Municipality of Turrialba, Costa Rica, as a Distinguished Poet 2023 ·     Poetry Park Award, Rotterdam 1989 for “Dr.