Roundtable Discussion

Joseph Valencia will speak about his curatorial activism supporting Latinx art and artists through academic art institutions, such as ONE Archives at USC Libraries and the Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College.

Since 2016, Joseph has co-organized numerous exhibitions, publications, and public programs at the Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College, an institution with a decades-long history of supporting and exhibiting the work of Chicanx and Latinx artists. Valencia’s curatorial work includes Sonic Terrains in Latinx Art (2022) and the first solo museum exhibitions of artists Laura Aguilar, George Rodriguez, Patrick Martinez, Guadalupe Rosales, and Gabriela Ruiz. He frequently contributes to Aperture, ARTFORUM, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, and KCET Artbound, and has taught art history and museum studies at colleges and universities across Southern California. Between 2017-2021, Valencia launched and co-directed the East Los Angeles College expansion of the Smithsonian Latino Museum Studies Program, a national internship designed to create new pathways into the museum field. Joseph is the inaugural Curator of Exhibitions at VPAM, a position supported by the Advancing Latinx Art in Museums initiative. He earned his M.A. in Curatorial Practices and the Public Sphere from the University of Southern California and a B.A. in Art History from California State University, Fullerton.