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
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.
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
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, 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
^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. ISBN978-3-7774-4168-9. OCLC1373831827.
