Chon Noriega

Chon A. Noriega
Born1961 (age 62–63)
Miami, Florida
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Illinois at Chicago,
Stanford University
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Los Angeles

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.

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

Noriega 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

Noriega 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

  • Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema (2000) ISBN 9781452904276, 1452904278[5]

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Johnson, Reed (October 6, 2012). "Chon Noriega's schedule is exhausting". Los Angeles Times.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Gelder, Lawrence Van (1992-03-27). "At the Movies (Published 1992)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-02-07.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ "Chon Noriega Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship". UCLA School of TFT. 2021-04-09. Retrieved 2021-04-13.