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Luis Adrián Vargas-Santiago is a an Art Historian. His major field is the Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art. He got his masters degree from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and is currently doing doctoral studies at UT Austin focus on the image of Emiliano Zapata across the world visual culture. He got the Fulbright-GarcÃa Robles scholarship (2009-2012) for graduate students and also had a research fellowship in 2007 at the Department of Art History and Theory, University of Essex, UK. He has taught seminars on Mexican art and historiography or art at institutions such as UNAM and Universidad Iberoamericana. He was researcher and assistant curator for the Photographic Collection of Fundación Televisa, and Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), respectively. Vargas-Santiago has been co-curator for exhibitions such as “Mirar desde el aire. AerofotografÃa en la ciudad de México 1932-1969†(GDF, Mexico, 2007); “Materia y sentido: el arte mexicano en la mirada de Octavio Paz†(MUNAL Mexico, 2009); “Imágenes del Mexicano†(BOZAR, Belgium, 2010); “El éxodo mexicano: los heroes en la mira del arte†(MUNAL Mexico, 2010). He has published articles and entries for books, catalogs, magazines, and dictionaries in Latin America, US, and Europe. Specialties Curatorship, teaching
