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