He has lectured at Yale University, Pratt Institute, and Parsons School of Design, as well as being a Visiting Critic at the Rhode Island School of Design and Holland's Rietveld Academie.
A collection of his criticism, Greatest Hits: Arte en Nueva York 2001–2011, was published in 2012, and Social Forms: A Short History of Political Art was published by David Zwirner Books in 2018.
Also, in 2018, it was announced by the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum that Viveros-Fauné will be the 'curator-at-large'.
[3][4][5] Viveros-Fauné was awarded the 2010 Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant,[6] named inaugural Critic-in-Residence at the Bronx Museum for 2010/2011,[7] and served on the 2012 committee to select Chile's representative to the 55th Venice Biennale.
[9] He has worked with Thomas Hirschhorn, Yishai Jusidman, Jannis Kounellis, Teresa Margolles, Richard Mosse, Angel Otero, Tavares Strachan, Superflex, Jorge Tacla, and Lisa Yuskavage.