Chon Noriega

Chon A. Noriega is an American art historian, media scholar, and curator. Noriega is professor of cinema and media studies at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. 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. They moved to Chicago in 1973, where his father ran a PR agency and ran for mayor in the early 1990s. 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.

Career Noriega was an assistant professor of American studies at the University of New Mexico. He moved to Los Angeles in summer 1992 to teach at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He was succeeded as director of CSRC by Veronica Terriquez in June 2021.

Noriega received the 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in the category of Fine Arts Research for two books about Raphael Montañez Ortiz.

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Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema (2000)