THE INSTITUTE FOR LATINO STUDIES PRESENTS:
the Young Scholars Symposium Distinguished Visiting Scholar:
Chon Noriega, Distinguished Professor of Theatre, Film & Television, University of California, Los Angeles
“The Riven Object: Destruction and Repair in Latinx Art” a lecture*
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
5:00 pm
205 McKenna Hall
Professor Noriega’s talk will examine the works by three Latinx artists widely recognized in the United States and internationally, while all three also remain seriously understudied: María Elena González (b. 1957), Raphael Montañez Ortiz (b. 1934), and Daniel Joseph Martinez (b. 1957). Each is vested in a different and distinct ethnic experience—Cuban diaspora, Puerto Rican immigration, and Chicano movement-based identity—that serves as the foundation for each’s deeply researched, experimental, and performative work.
Co-sponsors:
Department of Romance Languages & Literatures
Department of Art, Art History, and Design
Department of Film, Television, and Theatre
Franco Family Institute for Liberal Arts and the Public Good
Department of American Studies
Chon A. Noriega has been a faculty member at UCLA TFT since 1992. His work explores Chicano/Latino arts and media through their aesthetic, social and institutional histories. In conjunction with his scholarship, he has actively archived the works and papers of individual filmmakers and artists, art groups, and community-based arts institutions, as well as curated and co-curated research-based exhibitions for which ARTnews identified him as one of six curators “shaping the way art is presented around the globe.” Noriega has also been active in facilitating access for underrepresented groups working in media and the arts. He is co-founder of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP, est. 1999) and in 2013 he co-established a national undergraduate mentorship program to diversify the curatorial ranks at six comprehensive art museums located in minority-majority cities. He has presented to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the U.S. Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and the Congressional Entertainment Caucus.
*This lecture forms part of:
3 on the 30th
ILS events @ McKenna Hall.
September 30, 2026
Panel & Performance (2:30 pm & 7:30 pm)
Young Scholars Symposium (5:00 pm "The Riven Object:
Destruction and Repair in Latinx Art" by Chon A. Noriega)