Chon A Noriega is an American art historian, media scholar, and curator.
12 Facts About Chon Noriega
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Chon Noriega was the director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center from 2002 to 2021.
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Chon Noriega is an adjunct curator at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where he has worked as an curator since the 1990s.
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Chon Noriega has curated major exhibitions at Cornell University and LACMA.
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Chon Noriega's father was a beat reporter for the Associated Press from La Luz, New Mexico.
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Chon Noriega graduated with a bachelor's in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Chon Noriega received his master's and PhD from Stanford University.
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Chon Noriega was an assistant professor of American studies at the University of New Mexico.
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Chon Noriega moved to Los Angeles in summer 1992 to teach at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Chon Noriega was succeeded as director of CSRC by Veronica Terriquez in June 2021.
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Chon Noriega co-founded the National Association of Latino Independent Producers in 1999.
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Chon Noriega received the 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in the category of Fine Arts Research for two books about Raphael Montanez Ortiz.