In his own words “…they’re all from my school years’ archive (meaning when I was an art student). I’ve gone back into those portfolios to dig up things that had the seeds of my formation as an artist. By doing this, I’ve re-made the works in a sense, through a curating/editing gesture. Although they were all made in the 90s/00s, they are 2024 pieces.”

Jorge Lucero is a Mexican-American artist who currently serves as Full Professor of Art Education, in the School of Art & Design, where he formally served as Program Chair from 2015 to 2023. Concurrently since 2023, Lucero serves as Associate Dean for Research in the College of Fine and Applied Arts, also at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

As part of his decades-long work to test the creative and conceptual pliability of "school as material" Lucero participates in and around the academy in every manner possible. He has exhibited, performed, published, and taught through his work all over the U.S. and abroad.