Julio César Morales is an artist, educator, and curator. Julio is currently a curator at ASU Art Museum. He was also recently awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. His artwork consistently explores issues of labor, memory, surveillance technologies, and identity strategies. Morales teaches and creates art in a variety of settings, from juvenile halls and probation offices to museums, art colleges, and alternative non-profit institutions. He also works in food-based performance and video projects that have taken shape as forms of inquiry to address alternative histories through culinary explorations. His work has been shown at SFMOMA (San Francisco); 2009 Lyon Biennale (Lyon, France); 2008 and 2004 San Juan Triennial (San Juan, Puerto Rico); 2007 Istanbul Biennale; Los Angeles County Art Museum (Los Angeles); 2006 Singapore Biennale; Frankfurter Kunstverein (Frankfurt, Germany); Swiss Cultural Center (Paris, France); The Rooseum Museum of Art (Malmo, Sweden); Peres Projects (Los Angeles); Fototeca de Havana (Cuba); Harris Lieberman Gallery (New York City); Museo Tamayo (Mexico City) and UCLA Hammer Museum (Los Angeles).