Humberto More of the Dia Art Foundation in the United States is one of the speakers at the Land Art Lives conference on Oct. 3, 2024.
Humberto Moro is Deputy Director of Program at Dia Art Foundation* where he oversees the exhibitions, publications and learning and engagement departments. He was previously Deputy Director and Senior Curator at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, where he curated OTRXS MUNDXS, a large-scale survey of artists working in the city, and solo shows by Erick Meyenberg, Tania Pérez Córdova and Ugo Rondinone. He was Curator of the 2021 Exposure section at EXPO Chicago; and from 2016-22, Adjunct Curator at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia, where he co-organized Frederick Douglass: Embers of Freedom and Points of Contact by Elizabeth Catlett, and solo exhibitions by Kenturah Davis, Mariana Castillo Deball, AES+F and Isaac Julien, among others. Moro has previously held curatorial positions at the Park Avenue Armory in New York and Museo Jumex in Mexico City. 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 publication. 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 was part of the 2021 cohort of the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL), where he became a trustee in 2023.
* The Dia Art Foundation manages some of the most iconic early land art works in America, including Walter De Maria’s The Lightning Field (1977), Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) and Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels (1973-76). In addition to these “sites,” they have set up a number of exhibition venues that showcase the work of the early artists and question and actualize the movement’s ideas. Also see Impressions of the journey along art.