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Salomón Huerta
Born1965
Tijuana, Mexico
NationalityMexican American
EducationArtCenter College of Design
University of California, Los Angeles
Known forPainting

Salomón Huerta is a painter based in Los Angeles, California. Huerta was born in Tijuana, Mexico, and grew up in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. Huerta received a full scholarship to attend the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and completed his MFA at UCLA in 1998.[1][2]

Biography

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Salomón Huerta was born in the La Colonia Libertad neighborhood in Tijuana, Mexico, in 1965, and moved to California at age four.[3] She received her BFA from ArtCenter College of Design, in Pasadena, California, in 1991, and an MFA from University of California, Los Angeles, California, in 1998.

Work

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Salomon Huerta's work has been reviewed and appeared in the news at BOMB Magazine (2023),[4] Los Angeles Times,[5][6][7] Art in America, January 2009, Art Limited, Jan/Feb 2009, and Encore Magazine (July 2010).

Huerta has been featured in exhibitions and public programs in museums such as Austin Museum of Art,[8]

Her work was included in the Whitney Biennial, New York, in 2000.[9] In 2024, her work was included in at the Pérez Art Museum Miami,[10] Florida, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California,[11] among others.[12]

Let Everything Else Burn

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In 2012 Huerta published the artist book Let Everything Else Burn, a collection of short autobiographical texts paired with well-known artworks and archived images concerning his personal history and past.

Exhibitions

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Solo exhibitions

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  • 2019 Humanizing the Other: Art by Salomón Huerta, Kwan Fong Gallery, Thousand Oaks, CA
  • 2018 Still Lifes, There There, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2014 Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  • 2008 Mask, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA
  • 2005 Portrait of a Friend, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  • 2003 Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  • 2002 Studio La Citta, Italy
  • 2001 Gagosian Gallery, London; Salomon Huerta Paintings, Austin Museum of Art, Texas (catalogue)
  • 2000 Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  • 1999 Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  • 1994 Julie Rico Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  • 1993 Julie Rico Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Group Exhibitions

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  • 2024 Xican-a.o.x. Body, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida[13]
  • 2019 Chicanismo!: The Sanchez Collection, AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
  • 2017 Home—So Different, So Appealing: Art from the Americas since 1957, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2011 So, Who Do You Think You Are?, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
  • 2010 A Group Painting Show, Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica, CA
  • 2009 Superficiality and Superexcrescence, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA; Here's Looking at You, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2008 My Generation, Spichernohe, Koln, Germany
  • 2007 Strange New Worlds, Tijuana, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA; Exquisite Crisis and Encounters, Asian/Pacific/American Institute, NYU, New York, NY
  • 2006 Strange New Worlds, Tijuana, La Jolla Museum, La Jolla CA; Transactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Diego, San Diego, CA; Retratos, San Antonio Museum, San Antonio, TX, Traveling: National Portrait Gallery at the S. Dillion Ripley Center, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
  • 2005 Group Show, Robert Miller, NY, NY; Group Show, El Museo del Barrio, NY, NY; Retratos, El Museo del Barrio, NY, NY; High Drama, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA, Traveling to: McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pa; New Watercolors, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  • 2004 White on White, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  • 2003 Intimates, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; The Great Drawing Show, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2002 Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; Phoenix Triennial 2001, Contemporary Art: AZ CA MX NM TX, Phoenix Art Museum
  • 2000 Studio la Città Verona; The Next Wave: New Painting in Southern California, California Center for the Arts Escondido; East of the River: Chicano Art Collectors Anonymous, Santa Monica Museum of Art; Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY NY
  • 1999 Five Countries and One City, Mexico City Museum Mexico City
  • 1998 Patricia Faure Gallery Santa Monica
  • 1997 LA Current, Armand Hammer Museum Gallery Westwood
  • 1995 Vital Signs, Municipal Art Gallery Los Angeles
  • 1994 El Expectio Chicano, Mt. San Antonio College Pomona

Collections (selection)

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References

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  1. ^ "Salomón Huerta - Exhibitions - HARPER'S". Harper's Gallery. 21 March 2024. Archived from the original on 2024-03-21. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
  2. ^ "Salomon Huerta: Paintings - Austin Museum of Art - Absolutearts.com". www.absolutearts.com. Retrieved 2024-09-27.
  3. ^ "The New Latin Cool". Artnet. Retrieved 2024-09-27.
  4. ^ "BOMB Magazine | Salomón Huerta by Zach Davidson". BOMB Magazine. Retrieved 2024-09-27.
  5. ^ Pagel, David (2014-05-16). "Review: Salomon Huerta's paintings push beyond the comfort zone". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2024-09-27.
  6. ^ Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter (2000-10-08). "This Painter Reveals by Disguising". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2024-09-27.
  7. ^ Pagel, David (2016-01-21). "Critic's Choice: 'Devan Shimoyama/Salomón Huerta': Two artists' portraits of the soul". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2024-09-27.
  8. ^ "Salomón Huerta: Paintings; with essay by Elizabeth Ferrer". www.tfaoi.org. Retrieved 2024-09-27.
  9. ^ "Salomón Huerta". whitney.org. Retrieved 2024-09-27.
  10. ^ Fajardo-Hill, Cecilia; Del Toro, Marissa; Vicario, Gilbert; Chavez, Mike; Chavoya, C. Ondine; Salseda, Rose; Valencia, Joseph Daniel; Villaseñor Black, Charlene; Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum, eds. (2024). Xican-a.o.x. body. New York, NY : Munich, Germany: American Federation of Arts ; Hirmer Publishers. ISBN 978-3-7774-4168-9. OCLC 1373831827.
  11. ^ "Latinx Artists Explore the Idea of Home in this New LACMA Exhibit". PBS SoCal. 2017-06-21. Retrieved 2024-09-27.
  12. ^ Nys Dambrot, Shana (January 12, 2012). "Bound and Exhibited". LA Weekly. Retrieved September 27, 2024.
  13. ^ "Xican-a.o.x. Body • Pérez Art Museum Miami". Pérez Art Museum Miami. Retrieved 2024-09-27.
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