Los Angeles, CA
he/him
Armando is a curator and writer. His work and research investigate histories of colonization in the Americas and the Caribbean, art of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century American visual culture. He is currently an Assistant Curator for Special Projects at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, where he is contributing to the exhibition This Land Is… (2026). In previous curatorial roles, Armando has worked extensively with the collections of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. He also curated Ed Gómez: Sacred Disruption and Alma Entre Dos Mundos: Amina Cruz & Aldo Cervantes for the MexiCali Biennial, an organization highlighting the area encompassing California and Mexico as a region of aesthetic production. Armando has participated in fellowships hosted by the Association of Art Museum Curators and the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College. His writing has appeared in Frieze and Hyperallergic, and in publications produced by the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College and the Huntington. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Armando holds a BA in Art History and Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies from Dartmouth College.
