Born in Villa María, Argentina, Jorge Daniel Veneciano is executive director of El Museo del Barrio, New York and former director of the Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska and the Paul Robeson Galleries at Rutgers University. Veneciano served as curator at The Studio Museum in Harlem and with the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department. He holds a PhD from Columbia University in the Department of English and Comparative Literature; an MFA in Art/Critical Studies from CalArts; a BA in Philosophy and Political Theory, with a minor in Intellectual History, from UCLA. Veneciano is a scholar of modern and contemporary art and has taught at Columbia and RISD.