Daniel Brena

Daniel Brena (Santa Monica, California, 1982) is a citizen of both Mexico, and the U.S. He studied Linguistics, and Art History at UCLA, while working organizing events for the Student Advisory Council of the Hammer Museum, in Los Angeles. After finishing his studies, he completed an internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy. He has worked as the host of a television program dedicated to contemporary arts in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico. He worked as a coordinator for the Centro de las Artes de San Agustín (CaSa), the first ecological art center in Latin America and is also one of the founders and organizers of PechaKucha Night Oaxaca, a dynamic event started in Tokyo, were artists, designers, and architects, present ideas in a concise mini-conference format. Currently, he is the director of the Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo.