Salomón Huerta


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.

Biography

Salomón Huerta was born in the La Colonia Libertad neighborhood in Tijuana, Mexico, in 1965, and moved to California at age four. 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

Salomon Huerta's work has been reviewed and appeared in the news at BOMB Magazine, Los Angeles Times,,, and Encore Magazine.
Huerta has been featured in exhibitions and public programs in museums such as Austin Museum of Art,
Her work was included in the Whitney Biennial, New York, in 2000. In 2024, her work was included in at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, among others.

''Let Everything Else Burn''

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

Solo exhibitions

2019 Humanizing the Other: Art by Salomón Huerta, Kwan Fong Gallery, Thousand Oaks, CA2018 Still Lifes,, Los Angeles, CA2014 Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA2008 Mask, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA2005 Portrait of a Friend, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA2003 Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA2002 Studio La Citta, Italy2001 Gagosian Gallery, London; Salomon Huerta Paintings, Austin Museum of Art, Texas 2000 Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA1999 Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA1994 Julie Rico Gallery, Santa Monica, CA1993 Julie Rico Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Group Exhibitions

2024 Xican-a.o.x. Body, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida2019 Chicanismo!: The Sanchez Collection, AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA2017 Home—So Different, So Appealing: Art from the Americas since 1957, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA2011 So, Who Do You Think You Are?, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA2010 A Group Painting Show, Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica, CA2009 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, CA2008 My Generation, Spichernohe, Koln, Germany2007 Strange New Worlds, Tijuana, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA; Exquisite Crisis and Encounters, Asian/Pacific/American Institute, NYU, New York, NY2006 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, CA2004 White on White, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA2003 Intimates, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; The Great Drawing Show, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA2002 Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; Phoenix Triennial 2001, Contemporary Art: AZ CA MX NM TX, Phoenix Art Museum2000 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 NY1999 Five Countries and One City, Mexico City Museum Mexico City1998 Patricia Faure Gallery Santa Monica1997 LA Current, Armand Hammer Museum Gallery Westwood1995 Vital Signs, Municipal Art Gallery Los Angeles1994 El Expectio Chicano, Mt. San Antonio College Pomona

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