Caleb Duarte Piñon lives and works between the San Francisco Bay Area and San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. He is a contributor to Zapantera Negra: An Artistic Encounter Between the Black Panthers and the Zapatistas. Piñon studied at Fresno City College and is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was appointed as Oakland Arts Commissioner by then Mayor Jerry Brown in 2006. He has exhibited work at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Red Dot Art Fair in New York, The Sullivan Galleries in Chicago, Jack Fisher Gallery in San Francisco, Gallery 727 Los Angeles, the California Museum of Art in Oakland, the Fresno Art Museum and many others. He has given talks in such places as the De Young Museum, SF, the Mexican Museum, SF, the University of the Dirt, Chiapas, the University of Social Science in Tuxla MX, the California Institute of Integral Studies, and the 2012 Creative Time Summit in New York. He has created public works and community performances at the World Social Forum in Mumbai, India, in Santiago de Cuba, Chile, at El Pital, Honduras, in Mexico City, and throughout the US. His work has been reviewed by the Los Angeles Times, Art Ltd, The San Francisco Chronicle, and SPARK public television. Duarte is cofounder and director of EDELO (Where the United Nations Used to Be), a house of art in movement and an intercommunal artist residency of diverse practices. Situated in Chiapas, Mexico, the space invites participants with diverse practices to live and create. He is curator of the Zapantera Negra project.