Julio César Morales is executive director & co-chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson. Before arriving at MoCA Tucson in 2022, he was senior curator at the Arizona State University Art Museum in Tempe. From 2008 to 2012, he was adjunct curator for visual arts at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. In that same city, he founded the artist-run project space Queens Nails Annex and served as the gallery’s director from 2003 to 2012. In 2013, he was a contributing curator for the Japanese pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale. In Morales’ artistic practice, he employs a range of media and visual strategies to explore issues of migration, underground economies, and labor on personal and global scales.