Humberto Moro & Sarah Higgins In Conversation

Join editor and artistic director of Art Papers Sarah Higgins and SCAD Museum of Art adjunct curator Humberto Moro on @scadmoa Instagram Live for the first edition of SCAD’s Art and Industry conversation series. Their discussion will center on the role of publications and criticism within the ecosystem of contemporary arts, as well as Higgins’ own take on conceptualizing and creating relevant editorial arguments and critiques. Follow @pistachiocake and @artpapers on Instagram.

 

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Sarah Higgins is the Editor + Artistic Director of Art Papers. She has curated over 40 exhibitions featuring a diverse range of emerging, established, and international artists for institutions such as the Hessel Museum of Art, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, and Atlantic Center for the Arts. Previously, she was curator at the Zuckerman Museum of Art at Kennesaw State University from 2015-2018. There, she produced catalogs and exhibitions including Gut FeelingsTomashi Jackson: Interstate Love Song, and A View Beyond the Trees.

Humberto Moro (b. Guadalajara, Mexico, 1982) is deputy director and senior curator at Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; curator at EXPO CHICAGO; and adjunct curator at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, where he has organized solo exhibitions by such artists as Oliver Laric, Liliana Porter, Cynthia Gutiérrez, Pia Camil, Mariana Castillo Deball, Tom Bur, Yang Fudong, FOS, AES+F, and others. Previously, Moro held positions with ZONAMACO and Museo Jumex in Mexico City. He has curated projects at El Museo del Barrio, Park Avenue Armory, Johannes Vogt Gallery, and the Hessel Museum of Art in New York; La Casa Encendida in Madrid; and Museo de Arte de Zapopan in Guadalajara. Moro holds an MA in curatorial studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.