Chon A. Noriega is an American art historian, media scholar, and curator.[1] Noriega is professor of cinema and media studies at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.[2] He was also the director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) from 2002 to 2021.
Chon A. Noriega | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1961 (age 62–63) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois at Chicago, Stanford University |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles |
Noriega is an adjunct curator at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), where he has worked as an curator since the 1990s.[1] He has curated major exhibitions at Cornell University and LACMA.[2]
Early life
editNoriega was born in Miami, Florida in 1961. His father was a beat reporter for the Associated Press from La Luz, New Mexico.[2] His mother was from Kentucky.[3] They moved to Chicago in 1973, where his father ran a PR agency and ran for mayor in the early 1990s.[2][4] He graduated with a bachelor's in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He received his master's and PhD from Stanford University.[5]
Career
editNoriega was an assistant professor of American studies at the University of New Mexico.[6] He moved to Los Angeles in summer 1992 to teach at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).[2] At UCLA, he served as the director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) from 2002 to 2021.[2][7] He was succeeded as director of CSRC by Veronica Terriquez in June 2021.[7]
Noriega co-founded the National Association of Latino Independent Producers in 1999.[5]
In 2011, Noriega curated L.A. Xicano, an exhibit about the contributions of Mexican American artists in Los Angeles since 1945, for Pacific Standard Time, an eight-month exhibition that profiled the Los Angeles art scene from 1945 to 1980.[4]
In 2017, Noriega co-curated a retrospective exhibit of photographer Laura Aguilar for the Getty Foundation with Vincent Price Art Museum director Karen Rapp and East Los Angeles College art professor Sybil Venegas.[8]
Noriega received the 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in the category of Fine Arts Research for two books about Raphael Montañez Ortiz.[9]
Select bibliography
edit- Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema (2000) ISBN 9781452904276, 1452904278[5]
References
edit- ^ a b Artsy, Avishay (2020-10-14). "Chon Noriega Talks Chicano Art and Power, Increasing Museum Diversity and How COVID-19 Impacts Latinos". KCET. Archived from the original on 2021-02-14. Retrieved 2021-02-07.
- ^ a b c d e f Almino, Elisa Wouk (2020-08-03). "Meet LA's Art Community: Chon Noriega Is Working on a Social Justice Sci-Fi Film Series and So Much More". Hyperallergic. Archived from the original on 2020-08-04. Retrieved 2021-02-07.
- ^ Johnson, Reed (October 6, 2012). "Chon Noriega's schedule is exhausting". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ a b Tzortzis, Andreas (2018-04-20). "Chon Noriega, 56 | Academic | Los Angeles". AGEIST. Archived from the original on 2020-09-26. Retrieved 2021-02-07.
- ^ a b c Ford, William J. (August 6, 2009). "Smashing the Stereotypes On the Big Screen". Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. Archived from the original on 2012-12-07. Retrieved 2021-02-07.
- ^ Gelder, Lawrence Van (1992-03-27). "At the Movies (Published 1992)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-02-07.
- ^ a b Wolf, Jessica (June 8, 2021). "Veronica Terriquez named director of UCLA's Chicano Studies Research Center". UCLA. Archived from the original on 2021-06-08. Retrieved 2021-06-09.
- ^ Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter; Goldman, Edward (2017-07-20). "At Home at LACMA | Art Talk". KCRW. Archived from the original on 2020-08-09. Retrieved 2021-02-07.
- ^ "Chon Noriega Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship". UCLA School of TFT. 2021-04-09. Retrieved 2021-04-13.