Humberto Moro

Humberto Moro is Deputy Director and Senior Curator at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, where he is currently organizing OTRXS MUNDXS a large-scale survey of artists working in the city; Curator of the 2021 Exposure section at EXPO Chicago; and since 2016, Adjunct Curator at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia, where he has co-organized Frederick Douglass: Embers of Freedom, and organized solo exhibitions by Kenturah Davis, Sanford Biggers, Carlos Garaicoa, Glen Fogel, Alex Gardner, Oliver Laric, Cynthia Gutiérrez, Pia Camil, Mariana Castillo Deball, Tom Burr, Yang Fudong, FOS, AES+F, Mark Wallinger, Isaac Julien, and Anna Maria Maiolino, among others. Moro curated Other Situations, a project by Liliana Porter which included THEM, a theater play at The Kitchen, the reopening exhibition at El Museo del Barrio, and a forthcoming publication. Moro has previously held curatorial positions at the Park Avenue Armory in New York and Museo Jumex in Mexico City. He was the recipient of the 2016 Estancias Tabacalera Research Award for Latin-American curators, Madrid, Spain, and was part of the 7th Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course, in Gwangju, South Korea. Moro holds a BFA in Painting from the Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato; and a MA in Curatorial Studies by the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS), Bard College, New York, and is part of the 2021 cohort at the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL), New York.

Photo credit: Ernesto Solana.