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Mauricio Higuera

Public Programs and New Projects Director; Instructor Adjunct

Mauricio Higuera is an artist and educator born in Urabá, Colombia in 1985. Now hyphenated-American and having personally experienced the brutality of borders, he works through their psychic, conceptual and material vestiges to document the undocumented. His practice is located at the threshold where the material and immaterial permeate. Mauricio lives and works in the Bronx. He teaches drawing at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union. He has also taught at Rutgers University and the School of Art of The Cooper Union, his alma mater. 

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