Ondine Chavoya is Associate Professor of Art and Latina/o Studies at Williams College where he teaches course on contemporary art and visual culture. He is the author of numerous texts on Chicano avant-garde art, video, experimental cinema, and social space in southern California. Chavoya is co-curator of the exhibition Asco: Elite of the Obscure, A Retrospective 1972-1987, the first museum retrospective to present the wide-ranging work of the Chicano performance and conceptual art group Asco that premiered at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in fall 2011 and is currently on view at the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA). With curator Rita Gonzalez, he is also co-editor of the award-winning exhibition catalogue published by Hatje Cantz. With Chon Noriega, Jennifer Gonzalez, and Tere Romo, Chavoya is co-editor of the forthcoming Chicano Art: A Critical Anthology (Duke University Press).
