EL PASO, Texas, Sept. 22 -- The University of Texas at El Paso issued the following news release:
EL PASO, Texas (Sept. 22, 2026) - The Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts at The University of Texas at El Paso has appointed Andres Payan Estrada as Director and Chief Curator, effective August 1, 2026. He succeeds Kerry Doyle, who led the University art center for nearly two decades.
A native of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Payan Estrada first joined the Rubin Center in 2008 as a gallery intern while an undergraduate at UTEP, where he earned bachelor's degrees in graphic design and ceramics. He completed an MFA at the California Institute of the Arts in 2014, then spent a decade at Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles in curatorial a...