Adriana Yadira Gallego

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Adriana Yadira Gallego (born 1974) is a Chicana painter, public artist, and arts administrator. [1]

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Gallego was born and raised in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. [2] In 1997, Gallego graduated magna cum laude from the College of Fine Arts at the University of Arizona in Tucson. [1] After graduation and an apprenticeship at the Alternative Museum in New York, she moves to California where she completes public art projects, becomes an arts educator in state prisons, and begins her career in arts administration at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California. [3] [4] She returns to Tucson to work for the Arizona Commission on the Arts as a director of strategic initiative before moving to San Antonio, Texas, where she worked at the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures as the group's CEO for nearly a decade . [3]

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