School of Philosophy and Literature, FFyL-UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City
PhD in Art History 2019-2023 Field of study: Technical Art History.
Doctoral Dissertation: Temple the oil colours. Acolman panel paintings as a trace of material transition. Honourable Mention. Nominated for the “Alfonso Caso” academic merit medal.
Student associated to LANCIC-IF UNAM for the development in heritage sciences with imaging techniques and spectroscopies. Supervised by Dr. José Luis Ruvalcaba Sil.

School of Philosophy and Literature, FFyL-UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City
B.A. in Art History, 2017-2019. Field of study: Technical Art History.
Graduation Essay: San Agustín Acolman set of panel paintings. Material events of a painting
technique. Honourable Mention.
Associate Student of Laboratorio Nacional de Ciencias para la Investigación y Conservación del Patrimonio Cultural Instituto de Física de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
(LANCIC IF UNAM) for the development of in heritage sciences with imaging techniques and spectroscopies. Supervised by Dr. José Luis Ruvalcaba Sil.

Escuela Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museografía Manuel del Castillo Negrete, ENCRyM-INAH, Mexico City
Master’s Degree in Museology, 2016-2018 Specialization in Museums Management and Preventive Conservation.
Master’s Thesis: San Agustín Acolman. Un espacio Museal (1920-2016). Honourable Mention and INAH Miguel Covarrubias 2021 Award Distinction for the best master’s thesis.
Internship at the Fine Arts Museum (MUNAL) – Cultural Secretariat – Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura. Diagnosis of exhibition management and conservation of the easel
painting collection. Supervised by Dra. Sara Baz and MA. Claudia Barragán.

Escuela de Conservación y Restauración de Occidente, ECRO, Guadalajara, Jalisco
Bachelor’s Degree in Heritage Restoration, 2005-2011.
Bachelor’s Degree Thesis: Gloria y ruina de un pasado confluente. Study and conservation of a set of three panel paintings from the former convent of San Francisco Tepeyanco
Tlaxcala. Honourable Mention.
Social service at the Museo Nacional del Virreinato (MNV), Cultural Secretariat – INAH.

Escuela Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y
Museografía, Manuel del Castillo Negrete, ENCRyM-INAH,
Mexico City
Academician / 20 hrs.
Full Professor of the seminar on collections on display management.

Escuela de Conservación y Restauración de Occidente, ECRO,
Guadalajara, Jalisco
Academician/ 2015 to date
Full professor of the panel painting conservation seminar.

Escuela Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y
Museografía, Manuel del Castillo Negrete, ENCRyM-INAH,
Mexico City
Academician/ 2013- 2014 / 12 months
Deputy Research Professor of the Seminar restoration workshop for Modern and Contemporary Works, STROMC-ENCRYM.

Centro Nacional de Conservación y Registro de Patrimonio
Artístico, CENCROPAM-INBAL, Mexico City
Academician / 2013 / 20 hrs.
Introductory course techniques, materials, and alterations of panel paintings.

Cano, N, de Lucio, OG, Pérez, M, et al. “Acry3lic colours for peace: Non-invasive study of an outdoor mural painting”. Color Res Appl. 2023; 1- 12. doi: 10.1002/col.22861

Pérez, Miguel, Nathael Cano, José Luis Ruvalcaba-Sil, Alejandro Mitrani, and Oscar G. de Lucio. (2021). "Technical Non-Invasive Study of an 18th Century Novo-Hispanic Panel
Painting" Heritage 4, no. 4: 3676-3696. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage4040202

Cano Baca, L. R. N. (2021) “Conservación de pintura sobre tabla. Apuntes para un campo de especialización mexicano. CR. Conservación Y Restauración,” (21), 80–91. Retrieved
from http://revistas.inah.gob.mx/index.php/cr/article/view/15606

Cano Baca, L. R. N. (2020) “Laboratorio de Rayos X: prácticas institucionales aplicadas a pintura de caballete novohispana. CR. Conservación Y Restauración,” (20), 124–133.
Retrieved from http://revistas.inah.gob.mx/index.php/cr/article/view/16201

Cano Baca, Nathael, Alejandra Quintanar Isaías, José Luis Ruvalcaba Sil, Edgar Casanova González, Manuel Espinosa Pesqueira, Ana Jaramillo, Jazziel Lumbreras Delgado. 2019.
"Testigo material de un retablo desaparecido: Conjunto tabular del exconvento de San Francisco Tepeyanco, Tlaxcala". Intervención 2(20):13-22.
https://revistaintervencion.inah.gob.mx/index.php/intervencion/article/view/6268.

Wood Science and Technology III Conference, Maastricht, NL.
Speaker / 19, 20, 21 October 2023
Wooden supports in panel paintings from New Spain. Tracking Augustinian altarpieces from 16 th century.

Ciencia, museología y connoisseurshio: el nacimiento del estudio científico de las obras de arte, Museo Nacional del
Prado, Madrid
Speaker / 27, 28, 29 September 2023
Las ciencias que se cultivan en el museo. Alcances y pormenores de los estudios técnicos en el Museo Nacional, Ciudad de México (1900-1910)

Mesa mexicana de conservación, Consejo Internacional de Museos México, ICOM Mx
Coordinator/ March 2023 to date
National Coordinator of the Mexican Board for the Development of Conservation in Museums.

International Institute for Conservation Spanish Group, GE-IIC
Member/ 2020 to date
Academic Member of the Painting Conservation Program.

Ibero-American Research and Conservation Congress of the Spanish Group of the IIC, Spain-Portugal
Member /2022/ 12 months
Congress International Committee Member.

Foro académico ECRO, Guadalajara, Jalisco
Speaker, 2022
Los murales portátiles de Saturnino Herrán. Simbolismo, agencia material y conservación

Colours 2022. Bridging Science with Art, Universidad de Évora, Portugal
Speaker, 2022
Acrylic colours for peace. Study and conservation of an outdoor mural painting

CNCPC-INAH, ENCRyM-INAH, ECRO, CENCROPAM-INBAL, CENIDIAP-INBAL
Project Coordinator / 2021/ 12 months

Projects:
1st National Seminar on Easel Painting Conservation.
International Symposium: Challenges before time. 150 years of painting conservation in Mexico.
International Publication: Challenges before time. 150 years of painting conservation in Mexico.

International Committee on Works Documentation CIDOC-ICOM, Campus Mexico.
Member/ 2018 to date
Member of the Committee for the development on museums works documentation.
Project supervised by PhD Pedro Ángeles from the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, UNAM.

XXV Material Research Congress, Cancún, Mexico
Speaker/ 2017
Between colours and alterations. A set of panel paintings from Xochimilco, Ciudad de México.

Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, SAPS Cultural Secretariat-
INBAL
Speaker/ 2016
Conversatorio sobre embalaje de obra artística dentro del programa acdémico de la exhibición “Yo transporto” del artista G. T. Pellizzi.

2nd Conference on Museography and Conservation, MNV-MUNAL-INBAL-JUMEX
Speaker/ 2015
Disposición y montaje de imágenes en templos. El caso de un altar desarticulado del siglo XVI.

2nd Conference on Museography and Conservation, MNV-MUNAL-INBAL-JUMEX
Speaker/ 2014
Presentation “Los olvidados. Reflexiones en torno a una obra efímera y el montaje museográfico.”

International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art, INCCA
Member/ 2013 to date
Academic Member of the Modern and Contemporary Painting Conservation Program.

Integrating Platforms for the European Research Heritage
Science, IPERION HS – Universidad Antecipa, Brazil Heritage Science Workshop on SEM/Microanalysis, December 16-20, 2022.

LANCIC UNAM – OPUS, Sorbonne University, Mexico City.
Summer school Reconstructing, restoring, and projecting colour from the late 19 th century to the 1950s: Visual arts, archaeology of colour, exoticism, physico-chemical studies, August 22-26, 2022.

Online Seminar Ars Mechanica, International Institute for Conservation Spanish Group, GE-IIC
Tempera painting on canvas: materials used and functionality in accordance with antique documentary sources, December 13-20, 2021.

Integrating Platforms for the European Research
Infrastructure on Heritage Science, IPERION-HS Doctoral summer school in Heritage Science, July-August 2021.

Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, IIE-UNAM, Mexico City
Specialization course in confocal microscopy applied to cultural heritage, July-August 2021.

Online Seminar Ars Mechanica, International Institute for Conservation Spanish Group, GE-IIC
Technique on oil painting. A tour on historical sources. January 2021.

Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, IIE-UNAM, Mexico City
Course on microscopy and related techniques for cultural heritage study, August 2020.

Coordinación Nacional de Conservación del Patrimonio Cultural, CNCPC-INAH, Mexico City
Specialization course: Surfaces cleaning of cultural heritage with new methods. Taught by PhD Richard Wolbers. Delaware University, 2015.

Lab on wood anatomy and technology, UAM-Iztapalapa, Mexico City
Investigation course on analysis and diagnosis of cellular structure of wood in cultural objects, 2012-2013. Director Dra. Alejandra Quintanar Isaías.

Artwork Diagnosis Lab, IIE UNAM, Mexico City
Research Stay 2012-2013. Development of Scientific Analysis Methodology Applied to Artwork. Director: Dra. Elsa Arroyo.

Archivo General de la Nación, AGN, Mexico City
Specialization course, 2011: Iron gal inks: history, deterioration, and stabilization. Taught by BA Alejandra Odor.

Escuela Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museografía, ENCRyM-INAH, Mexico City
Specialization course, 2007: Calcium nanoparticles application for mural painting conservation. Taught by PhD Piero Baglioni.

Laboratorio de Arte Alameda, Culture Secretariat-INBAL, Mexico City
Specialization course, 2007: Museographic Design: creation, design, and planning Taught by Lucio Lara.

Museo Nacional de Historia, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, MNH-INAH, Mexico City
Curator-restorer / September 2023 – November 2023
Restorer of the canvas El bautizo de Ixtlilxóchitl de Texcoco attributed to the painter José Vivar y Valderrama, 1752. Project funded by Bank of America.

Dirección de Difusión Cultural, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, DDC-IPN, Mexico City
Curator-restorer / August 2021 – July 2022 / 14 months
In charge of the conservation of IPN 2021-2022 artistic collection.
Coordination of the conservation project of the Federico Silva contemporary mural.

Restoration of contemporary and modern and contemporary painting:
Saturnino Herrán, Alegoría de la Construcción, 1910, portable mural painting.
Saturnino Herrán, Alegoría del trabajo, 1910, portable mural painting.
Federico Silva, La técnica al servicio de la paz, 1951-1953, mural painting.
Helen Escobedo, Puerta triple, 2005, metallic and polychrome sculpture.
IPN 2021- 2022 artistic collection maintenance and preventive conservation processes.

Artwork diagnosis and research project:
Saturnino Herrán y Federico Silva mural painting conservation and diagnosis
technology.

Painting of the Lienzo de Tlaxcala, Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco-UNAM, Mexico City
Consulting and production / 2021
Artwork produced: Mariana Castillo Deball y Eduardo Abaroa, Lienzo de Tlaxcala, tempera paint on linen.

CME, Lomas de Virreyes, Mexico City
Curator-restorer / September 2021
Restored artwork: Rafael Cauduro, Vagón rojo, 2008, oil and acrylic painting on

chipboard panel.
Rafael Cauduro, Deshacen máquina de vapor de N. de M., 2007, oil and acrylic painting on chipboard panel.

IG Conservación y Restauración, Morelos
Curator-restorer / 2019 to date
Restored artwork: Anónimo novohispano, Cristo del milagro, s. XVII, polychrome sculpture, San Andrés de la Cal, Morelos.

Alberto Enríquez Perea Collection, Mexico City-Puebla
Curator-restorer / 2020 to date
Folk art collection classification and conservation.
Restored artwork: Familia Castillo, Árbol de la vida, ca. 1956, high temperature ceramic,Izúcar de Matamoros, Puebla.

Seminario de Cultura Mexicana collection, Mexico City
Curator-restorer / July 2019 to date
Restored artwork: Jorge González Camarena, Retrato de Francisco Díaz de León, 1967, oil on linen.

Thomas Fléchel collection, Mexico City- Morelos
Curator-restorer / June 2018 to date
Classification and conservation of painting, sculpture, and engraving collection.
Restored artwork: Leonel Maciel, La cita, 1964, oil on canvas.
Felipe Orlando, Hermanas, ca. 1981, oil on canvas.

Luis Berrueco, Santa Bárbara, s. XVIII, oil on canvas.
Arturo Taracena Arriola collection, Mexico City-Yucatán.
Curator-restorer / June 2016 to date
Modern and contemporary art collection restoration and classification.
Restored artwork: Carlos Mérida, Pájaros, 1970, acrylic painting on canvas.
Carlos Mérida, sin título, ca. 1976, acrylic on paper.
Lola Cueto, Perro, 1946, aguatinta.
Taller de Gráfica Popular, El látigo de la injusticia, 1936, xilograbado.

Galería Breve, Mexico City.
Curator-restorer / June 2018 – 2019
Arquitecturas de la fatiga. Federico Martínez Montoya artist individual display. Artwork production, work restoration and preventive conservation.

Parque Galería, Mexico City
Curator-restorer / January 2017 – 2018
Un acto antes de un concepto. Noé Martínez individual display. Artwork production consulting, work restoration and preventive conservation tasks.

Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Cultural Secretariat-INBAL
Curator-restorer / October 2017 – March 2018 Réplicas. Apuntes sobre historia material. Lorena Mal artist individual display. Artwork
research, consulting, production, and preventive conservation.

Museo Nacional de Arte, Cultural Secretariat-INBAL
Curator / 2017 – 2018
Dissemination project for the conservation of artistic heritage in Mexico.

Archaeological rescue project El Huei Tzompantli de Tenochtitlán. Centro Histórico, Mexico City
Curator-restorer / 2017
Rescue, restoration, and preventive conservation of bones, stucco, and mural painting of the Pre-Hispanic structure found on the perimeter of the archaeological zone of the Templo Mayor.

Coordinación Nacional de Conservación del Patrimonio Cultural, CNCPC-INAH, Mexico City
Curator-restorer / January 2015 – December 2016 / 24 months.
Restoration of easel painting on canvas, board, and sheet from the 16th to the 19th century.
Coordinator of the interdisciplinary study and restorer of the pictorial cycle of San Bernardino de Siena Xochimilco, Mexico City.

Ministry of the Interior, Mexico City
Easel painting restorer/ 2015
Restored artwork: Luis Nishizawa, Paisaje, 1980, oil on canvas.

Coordinación Nacional de Conservación del Patrimonio Cultural, CNCPC-INAH, Mexico City
Projects management and evaluation / 2014
Planning of regulations and validation monitoring of conservation projects

Escuela Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museografía, Manuel del Castillo Negrete, ENCRyM-INAH, Mexico City
Curator-restorer / 2013-2014 / 12 months
Work restoration:
Vicente Rojo, Cráter B, 2004, acrylic, sand and Styrofoam on fabric, MNV-INAH collection

Museo de la Basílica de Guadalupe, INBG, Mexico City
Curator-restorer principal / 2013
Valuation, classification, restoration, and preventive conservation of the collection.
Restored artwork: Anónimo novohispano, La Virgen de Guadalupe, 1531, tempera on canvas.
Sebastián López de Arteaga, La estigmatización de San Francisco, s.XVII, oil on canvas.
Cristóbal de Villalpando, Bautizo de Santa Bárbara, s. XVIII, oil on panel.
Cristóbal de Villalpando, Martirio de Santa Bárbara, s. XVIII, oil on panel.

Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Ocotlán, Tlaxcala
Curator/ 2012 / 3 months
Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Ocotlán, Tlaxcala altarpiece set registration and diagnosis project.

Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, MUAC-UNAM
Curator-restorer / 2012
Evaluation and staging of Fernando Bryce temporary display artwork. Dibujando la historia moderna.

Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Jalisco
Curator-restorer / 2010
Restored artwork: José Clemente Orozco, El Hombre de Fuego, 1939, fresco.

Panteón de Belén, Guadalajara, Jalisco
Curator-restorer / 2009
Dome of the Central Mausoleum of the Pantheon of Bethlehem conservation diagnosis.

Museo de sitio de la Zona Arqueológica de Templo Mayor, Centro Histórico, Mexico City
Curator-restorer / 2009 / 1 month
Work restoration:
Anónimo mexica, Almena monumental, s. XV, low fired ceramic.
Anónimo mexica, Copa bícroma, s. XV, low fired ceramic.

Templo de Santa Mónica, Guadalajara, Jalisco
Curator-restorer / 2008
Santa Mónica Temple Architectural Facade restoration project.

Santa Prisca conservation project, ENCRyM-INAH, Mexico City.
Technical restorer /11-19-2007 to 12-2-2007/ 14 days
Main Altarpiece intervention and manufacturing technique registration.

Best master’s thesis on museums studies: San Agustín Acolman. Un espacio museal (1920-2016).