Art historian, curator and artist born in Mexico City. He completed his doctoral studies in Visual Studies from the University of California, Irvine, 2010 and is assistant professor of History of Modern / Contemporary Art in Latinamerica, in the Visual Arts Department at UCSD. His book Disturbance Areas: Indigenous Spectra Mexico in Modernity was the guide for the seminar theory Zones of Disturbance (August 2009-2011) at the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC, UNAM) and investigation to CENIDIAP-INBA ( national center for research, documentation and information in Fine Arts). His experimental videos and documentaries have been exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum, Reina Sofia in Madrid, The San Diego Museum of Art, Museo Carrillo Gil in Mexico, Theatro Red Cat in the Disnay Hall, Los Angeles and Anthology Film Archives in New York among other museums, galleries and festivals. Since 2009 he is a founding member of the editorial and curatorial committee spectrum and Red Zone Review since 2001, an editorial collection, collaboration between Twenty First Century Publishers, UNAM and UAM. His publications include Aesthetics and Emancipation: Phantom, Fetish, Phantasmagoria (with Cuauhtémoc Medina) and MEX / LA: "Mexican" Modernism (s) in Los Angeles, 1930-1985 (HATJECANTZ, 2012). Lives and works in San Diego and Mexico