Chon Noriega is Distinguished Professor of Film, Television, and Digital Media at the University of California, Los Angeles. His work explores Chicano and Latino arts through their aesthetic, social, and institutional histories. He is author of Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema (2000), and co-author of Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement (2008) and Home—So Different, So Appealing (2017). Noriega has edited the collected writings of Carmelita Tropicana and Harry Gamboa, Jr., and, most recently, co-edited Chicano and Chicana Art: A Critical Anthology (2019). In conjunction with his own research, Noriega has actively archived the works and papers of individual filmmakers and artists, art groups, and community-based arts institutions. He has also curated and co-curated numerous museum exhibitions and film series, including a month-long program on “Latino Images in Film” for Turner Classic Movies which he co-hosted with Robert Osborne in 2009. He is a co-founder of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers, and helped establish the Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship Program at five comprehensive art museums in minority-majority cities. From 2002 to 2021, he served as Director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. Noriega is currently a Guggenheim Fellow for 2021-22 and working on a book about Destructivist artist Raphael Montañez Ortiz (b. 1934) that applies the artist’s notion of “de-structuring the structure” to the study of the artist’s life and body of work.