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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE ACADEMIC PROGRAMS COORDINATOR Oficina para proyectos de arte (OPA) Guadalajara, Mexico 2009 to present (www.opa.com.mx) Organize and coordinate Contemporary Art, Design and Media Workshops with the assistance of the University of Guadalajara. RECENT CURATORIAL PROJECTS Tlatelolco. Intervencin Luciano Matus. Centro Cultural Tlatelolco, Mexico City, September 2011. See www.tlatelolco.unam.mx. Bing Bang y otras historias de la Evolucin. Collective show. Centro Cultural Border, Mexico City, June 2010. See www.border.com.mx. Gustabo Abascal: The Faculties of Sadness. Galera Tal Cual, Mexico City, March 2010. See www.artetalcual.com/exposiciones_pasadas.html Francisco Ugarte. Museo Casa Luis Barragn, Mexico City, February 2010. See www.casaluisbarragan.org and www.franciscougarte.com/ing.html. Ciudad. Intervenciones urbanas para la recuperacin de espacios pblicos. Collective show. Museo Ral Anguiano, Guadalajara, Mexico 2009. See http://muragdl.mx/museo and gdl.estamosdentro.com/ed/eventos/arteyestilo/exposicion-ciudad--museo-raul- anguiano/7803/0 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (CONTINUED) MANAGING COORDINATOR Patronato de Arte Contemporneo (PAC) Mexico City (Contemporary Art Foundation) June 2006 to February 2009 www.pac.org.mx General oversight of the PACs International Symposium on Contemporary Art Theory (SITAC) (www.pac.org.mx/sitac/) General oversight of PACs participation as sponsor and treasurer for the Mexican Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennial 2007, featuring artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Oversight of numerous cultural projects Coordinated resident artist, critic and curator program at unitednationsplaza Mxico DF /Casa Refugio Citlaltpetl in conjunction with Anton Vidokle (www.unitednationsplaza.org) (www.casarefugio.com) Managed PACs curatorial and independent Call for Curatorial and Independent Exhibition Projects Coordinated PACs institutional art fair participation

CONSULTANT Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport Madrid Winter 2003 Office of Fine Arts and Heritage RESIDENT PROFESSIONAL UNESCO Paris Autumn 2002 Participant, World Heritage Centre CONSULTANT COORDINATOR Instituto Nacional de Arqueologa e Historia Mexico City (Mexicos National Institute for Archaeology and History) 1998-2006 (www.inah.gob.mx) Oversaw World Heritage/Foreign Relations office General Office Consultant Coordinator Sub-director, World Heritage Site office: planning and compliance Project coordinator and co-curator, 23/zonas, (circa)-INAH: contemporary art interventions at history and archaeology world heritage sites, featuring the participation of artists such as Abraham Cruz-Villegas, Luciano Matus, Claudia Fernndez, Gonzalo Lebrija, Thomas Glassford, et al. See examples: Gustavo Artigas en El Tajin, Veracruz (www.gustavoartigas.com Unlucky Tourist) and Manuel Rocha en Campeche (www.artesonoro.net/artesonoro/fuertedesanjose/fuerteSanJose.html) Delegate, Mexicos UNESCO World Heritage Site Committee at sessions in Helsinki, Paris, Hungary, South Africa, etc. See http://whc.unesco.org/archive/6extcom-annex1.htm Executive assistant to Mara Teresa Franco, INAH General Director INAH General Office Consultant RESEARCH ASSISTANT Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologa Social (CIESAS) Mexico City (Center for Research and Superior Studies in Social Anthropology) 1993-1995 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Undergraduate Lecturer in Cultural Management. ITESO University, Guadalajara, Mexico. Concentration in Art and Symbolism from Pre-History to the Baroque as well as Origins of Contemporary Art. 2010-present Lecturer in Cultural Heritage and Tourism. Iberoamericana University. 2005-2006. Masters Level Lecturer in Architecture. Autonomous University of Morelos. Concentration in National Artistic Heritage. 2004-2005. Lecturer in Spanish Language Instruction, The University of Chicago. 1997. History instructor, Colegio Mariyac, Mexico City. 1992-1993.

OTHER NOTABLE EXPERIENCE Editorial supervisor for conference catalogue, SITAC V (2006) and SITAC VI (2007). See www.pac.org.mx/sitac/sitac-v-dialogos-impertinentes and www.pac.org.mx/sitac/sitac-vi-lo- que-nos-queda/ Collaborator with artist Luciano Matus at world heritage sites specific interventions in Mexico, Central and South America Co-author, Luciano Matus. (Olivier Debrois, Ed.). Spain: Turner, 2004. See www.artbook.com/turner.html. Collaborator, Biombo negro magazine, Director Felipe Ehrenberg. See http://biombonegro.tripod.com/directorio.html Instructor, Ctedra UNESCO de Conservacin de Patrimonio Cultural. 2001-2005. See http://catedras.ucol.mx/directorio.htm Coordinator, Hereditas magazine. 2001; 2005. See www.patrimonio- mexico.inah.gob.mx/hereditas/ Co-editor (with Sergio Ral Arroyo) Alquimia magazine (No. 9: Figuraciones y signos). See www.gobiernodigital.inah.gob.mx/mener/index.php?id=11. EDUCATION MA studies, Art, Iberoamericana University, Mexico City, 2006-2007. MA, History. The University of Chicago, 1996-997. Thesis: B Traven in Mexico. Thesis director: PhD. Friedrich Katz. Licenciatura (BA equivalent), History, Iberoamericana University, Mexico City, 1992-1996/ semester at Baruch College, New York, 1993. Thesis: Traslados de procesos de justicia contra Diego Hernndez de vila, contra las indias hechiceras y contra Juan Gutirrez Corts, por el Gobernador Francisco de Sande, Islas Filipinas, 1577-1580. Thesis director PhD. Antonio Rubial. LANGUAGES

Spanish (native speaker) English (fluent) French (proficient) HONORS AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Young Creators Fellow, Mexicos National Foundation for Culture and the Arts (FONCA), 2000/2001. See http://fonca.conaculta.gob.mx/ligas/beneficiarios/jc2000.html Grant recipient, The University of Chicago Member, International Council of Monuments and Sites, (ICOMOS) Grant recipient, Cartagena de las Indias, Colombia Heritage Site Board Member, Patronato de Arte Contemporneo (PAC)