Chon Noriega
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Chon A. Noriega | |
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| Born | 1961 (age 63–64) Miami, Florida, U.S. |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois at Chicago, Stanford University |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University 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]
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]
