Cesáreo Moreno
Cesáreo Moreno has been the Visual Arts Director of the National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA) since 1995, and was named the museum’s first full time Curator in 2004. Prior to 1995, he was the Exhibitions Coordinator for three years. He has curated numerous exhibitions for NMMA as well as The Border Art Biennial III for the El Paso Museum of Art & Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez (Mexico), Arte Tejano de campos, barrios y fronteras for the Smithsonian Latino Center, and Benito Juarez and the Making of Modern Mexico for the Chicago History Museum. Moreno’s most important assignments at NMMA have included curating A Declaration of Immigration, a contemporary exhibition of over 70 artists who dealt with the issue of immigration. The African Presence in México, From Yanga to the Present, a milestone exhibition that surveyed nearly 500 years of Afro-Mexican history and artistic expressions. Additionally, he has curated ten of the annual Day of the Dead exhibitions.
