http://www.lindavallejo.com

Linda Vallejo is an artist that consolidates multiple, international influences gained from a life of study and travel throughout Europe, the United States and Mexico to create paintings, sculptures, and installations that investigate contemporary cultural, political, spiritual and environmental issues.

Vallejo has recently been included in The California/International Arts Foundation’s L.A. Rising: SoCal Artists Before 1980 and the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945-1980 in two exhibitions, Mapping Another LA: The Chicano Art Movement, UCLA Fowler Museum, and Doin’ It in Public: Art and Feminism at the Woman’s Building, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art.

She has exhibited her work at the National Museum of Chicano Art, Los Angeles Natural History Museum, Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum, The Carnegie Art Museum, Armand Hammer Museum, Laguna Art Museum, Bronx Museum, Museum of Modern Art New York, San Antonio Museum, Mexico City Modem Art Museum, ChimMaya Gallery, Galeria Las Americas, Plaza de la Raza, Tropico Nopal, Ave 50 Studio Gallery, Patricia Correia Gallery, and Metro Gallery. Her work has been reviewed in ArtNews, Art Business News, Southwest Art, Angeles Times, and Artillery Magazine. She was also the owner of Galeria Las Americas from 1990-1997 in Los Angeles and Santa Monica.

Vallejo has received grants and awards from the Durfee Foundation, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, Artist Award, Quien es Quien in US Commerce, National Award, the National Association Chicano Studies, Distinguished Recognition, Comisión Femenil de Los Angeles Latinas Making History award in Art, the California Community Foundation, the Brody Fund Arts Fellowship, and the California Arts Council.

Recent and Upcoming Projects

Doin’ It in Public: Art and Feminism at the Woman’s Building as part of the Getty Southern California Research initiative Pacific Standard Time: Art in Los Angeles 1945-1980 scheduled to open in October 2011 at the Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art, Los Angeles.

Mapping Another L.A.: The Chicano Art Movement Building as part of the Getty Southern California Research initiative Pacific Standard Time: Art in Los Angeles 1945-1980. To be presented at the UCLA Fowler Museum between October 2011 February 2012.

Latino Art Now! Conference, November 2010, where Dr. Karen Mary Davalos from Loyola Marymount University presented a paper work for the Feminist Art Production Panel entitled, Linda Vallejo: An Arc of Indigenous Spirituality and Indigenist Sensibility.

The conference as organized by The Inter-University Program for Latino Research (IUPLR) at the University of Notre Dame, the Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), and the Centro de Estudio Puertoriquenos at Hunter College. Conference Chairs included Gilberto Cardenas, IUPLR Executive Director, Assistant Provost & Julian Samora Chair in Latino Studies University of Notre Dame; and Chon A. Noriega, Director, Chicano Studies Research Center and Professor, Department of Film, Television and Digital Media University of California, Los Angeles.

Collections include The National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, Ill; Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA from a gift provided through the Peter Norton Collection; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Print Department; The Latino Art Museum in Pomona, California; University of California, Santa Barbara, (CEMA), California Multicultural and Ethnic Archives; University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) Chicano Study Research Center; Stanford University Chicana Art Multimedia Database

Selected Group Exhibitions include the National Mexican Museum in Chicago, Illinois, the Latino Art Museum in Pomona, California, and ChimMaya Gallery in Montebello, California. Additional group exhibitions include the Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum, Patricia Correia Gallery, The Carnegie Art Museum, The Frazier Museum, Tropico Nopal Art Space, The Santa Monica Museum, Armand Hammer Museum, Laguna Art Museum, Art Museum of South Texas, Anchorage Museum of History and Art, The Bronx Museum, Museum of Modern Art New York, San Antonio Museum, and Mexico City Modem Art Museum.

Recent Major Publications

Fierce Beauty: The Art Work of Linda Vallejo, 2010, published by the artist.

L.A. Rising: SoCal Artists Before 1980, 2010, California International Arts Foundation, Editor, Lyn Kienholz.

One, The Mind Aware, 2010, New Momentum For Human Unity Productions, ISBN: 978-1-4507-1851-6

Speak for the Trees, Marquand Books, 2010, in collaboration with the Friesen Gallery.

Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art, 2001, Bi-Lingual Press, Hispanic Research Center, Arizona State University.

LINDA VALLEJO CV

EDUCATION

Master of Fine Arts Degree, Printmaking, Cal State University Long Beach, California, 1975-1978

Undergraduate work at the University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Lithography, 1975-1976

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Whittier College, California, 1969-1973

Graduated from Madrid High School, Madrid, Spain, 1967-1969

SOLO MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS

A Prayer for the Earth, The Southwest Museum, Midland Texas, scheduled for 2012

A Prayer for the Earth, The MacNider Museum, Mason, Iowa, scheduled for 2012

A Prayer for the Earth, Solo Exhibition, Natural History Museum, Los Angeles, 2006

A Prayer for the Earth, Solo Exhibition, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA 2004

Nature and Spirit, Solo Exhibition, Latino Art Museum, Pomona, California, 2003

SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS MUSEUMS AND INSTITUTIONS

The National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, Ill

Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA from a gift provided through the Peter Norton Collection

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Print Department, Los Angeles, CA

University of California, Santa Barbara, (CEMA), California Multicultural and Ethnic Archives

University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) Chicano Study Research Center

Stanford University Chicana Art Multimedia Database

GROUP MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS

2011

UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center L.A. Xicano “Mapping Another LA: The Chicano Art Movement” as part of the
Getty Southern California Research initiative Pacific Standard Time: Art in Los Angeles 1945-1980 curated by Pilar Tompkins Rivas scheduled to open at the Fowler Museum, Fall 2011

2010

Collector's Choice, Latino Art Museum, Pomona, California

2009

Rastros y Crónicas Mujeres de Juarez, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, Ill

2008

Vida sin Fin, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, Ill


2006

Tigers and Jaguars, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2004

A History of Conflict - A Future of Hope, Frazier Museum, Louisville, Kentucky

2000

Defining the Sublime, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA

East of the River: Chicano Art Collectors Anonymous, Santa Monica Museum, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS GALLERIES AND INSTITUTIONS

2011

Make ‘em all Mexican, Ave 50 Studio, Los Angeles, CA

2010

Fierce Beauty: The Art Work of Linda Vallejo, a Forty-Year Retrospective, Plaza de la Raza Boat House Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

The Electrics, Solo Exhibition at Galerie Anaïs, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA

A Prayer for the Earth Eco Installation, Hardin Center for Cultural Art, Gadsden, AL

2009

A Prayer for the Earth Eco Installation, San Luis Obispo Cultural Art Center, CA

2006

Hope in the Midst of War, Death, and Destruction, Sierra Arts Gallery, Reno, Nevada

2005

Linda Vallejo in the Project Room, Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2002

Nature and Spirit, Howell Green Gallery, Topanga, California

2001

Los Cielos, Howell and Green Fine Art Gallery, Topanga, CA

Mother Earth/Father Sky, Southern California Artists Gallery (SCA), Pomona Arts Colony, Pomona,

2000

Los Cielos, Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) Venice, CA


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND SPECIAL PROJECTS: GALLERIES AND INSTITUTIONS

2011

Doin’ It in Public: Art and Feminism at the Woman’s Building, as part of the Getty Southern California Research initiative Pacific Standard Time: Art in Los Angeles 1945-1980, October 1, 2011 through January 28, 2012, at the Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design

2010

Muertos de Risa: 80s Vintage Day of the Dead Works from Self Help Graphics & Art’s Collection, ChimMaya Gallery

Collector's Choice, curated by Armando Durón for the Latino Art Museum, Pomona, CA

2009

Women Artists on Immigration, Korean Cultural Center of Los Angeles, CA

(re)cycled, L2Kontemporary Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Ancient Ofrenda: Elements of an Altar, Arizona State University Museum of Anthropology, Tempe, AZ

The Chicana/o National Biennial 2009, Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, San Jose, CA

2008

The Art of Thought, City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA

15/15, Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Maestra Atelier, Self Help Graphics and Art, Inc., Los Angeles, CA

Spirits of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA

Somos Medicia - Mujeres de Maiz, Exhibition and Publication, Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA

Death of the Bush Era - What Next?, Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), Venice, CA

2007

If Peace Is An Anomaly, Then What is War?, Kerkhoff Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Echoes: Women Inspired by Nature, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA

12 Artists, 24 Ideas, Avenue 50 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Self Help Graphics Atelier Print Program, "Electric Oak" Limited Edition Silkscreen Print 1/119, Los Angeles

Chicano/Latino Arts of Los Angeles Oral History Project, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC); Terezita Romo, Project Coordinator, and Dr. Karen Mary Davalos, Interviewer

The All City Waitress Marching Band, produced by Jerri Allyn, ArtScene's 25th Anniversary, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

2006

HOPE in the Midst of War, Death and Destruction, Sierra Gallery, Reno, Nevada


2005

International Modern Art Biennale, Florence, Italy

The Tree of Life, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA

2004

Mujeres, Group Chicana Exhibition, Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Balancing Beliefs: Urban Vision of Sickness and Healing, University of California, Los Angeles, Department Of World Arts & Cultures, Los Angeles, CA

Mujeres, Group Chicana Exhibition, Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2003

HOPE, In the Midst of War Death, and Destruction Installation, Day of the Dead Exhibition, Tropico Nopal, Los Angeles

Returning to Aztlan, dA Art Space, Pomona, CA

2001

Dreams and Reality, The Marjorie and Herman Platt Gallery and the Borstein Gallery, University of Judaism, Los Angeles

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2011

L.A. Xicano, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press, distributed by University of Washing Press, edits by Chon A. Noriega, Terezita Romo, and Pilar Tompkins Rivas, 2011

Doin’ It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Women’s Building and From Site to Vision: The Women’s Building in Contemporary Culture, Ben Maltz Gallery and Otis College of Art and Design, edited by Sondra Hale and Terry Wolverton, 2011

Suffragette City, Betty Ann Brown, Art Ltd. Magazine, January 2011

2010

Fierce Beauty: The Art Work of Linda Vallejo. A forty-year retrospective exhibition and book with essays by Betty Ann Brown, Peter Frank, and Gloria Orenstein presented at Plaza de la Raza Boat House Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

L.A. Rising: SoCal Artists Before 1980, 2010, California International Arts Foundation, Editor, Lyn Kienholz

One, The Mind Aware, 2010, New Momentum For Human Unity Productions, ISBN: 978-1-4507-1851-6

Mujeres de Maiz, Zine #8, Publication, Los Angeles, CA

2009

Focus on the Masters, Artist Archives and Interview, Ventura, CA

Speak for the Trees. Published by Marquand Books and created by Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho, and Seattle, Washington: April 1 - May 31, 2010

2007

Floating World, Metro Gallery Exhibition, catalog with essay written by Betty Ann Brown, Hollywood, CA

Chicano/Latino Arts of Los Angeles Oral History Project, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC); Terezita Romo, Project Coordinator and Dr. Karen Mary Davalos, Los Angeles, CA

http://www.lindavallejo.com

Vallejo has received grants and awards from the Durfee Foundation, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, Artist Award, Quien es Quien in US Commerce, National Award, the National Association Chicano Studies, Distinguished Recognition, Comisión Femenil de Los Angeles Latinas Making History award in Art, the California Community Foundation, the Brody Fund Arts Fellowship, and the California Arts Council.