Linda Vallejo

Feb 2

Linda Vallejo (b. 1951, Los Angeles) creates work that visualizes what it means to be a person of color in the United States. She states that these works reflect what she calls her “brown intellectual property”—the experiences, knowledge, and feelings gathered over more than four decades of study of Latino, Chicano, and American indigenous culture and communities. Vallejo received her MFA in Printmaking from California State University, Long Beach in 1978. In 1973, Vallejo was one of the early art teachers at Self-Help Graphics Barrio Mobile Art Studio, an arts non-profit primarily serving the Latino community of East Los Angeles with arts education, printmaking and support, and an incubator of the Chicano art movement. Recent solo shows include Linda Vallejo: Brown Baroque, CSU San Bernardino Fullerton Museum, Santa Barbara, CA (2023); Linda Vallejo: Brown Belongings, La Plaza de Cultura y Artes, Los Angeles, CA (2019-2020); Keepin’ it Brown, Getty Foundation Initiative PST: LA/LA, CA (2017); and Make ‘Em All Mexican, Texas A&M University Reynolds Gallery, Collegetown, TX (2016). Permanent collections include the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach, CA; the Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA; Museo del Barrio, New York, NY; East Los Angeles College Vincent Price Museum, Los Angeles CA; National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL; Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA; UC Santa Barbara, California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA), Santa Barbara, CA; and the UCLA Chicano Study Research Center (CSRC), Los Angeles, CA. Linda Vallejo is represented by parrasch heijnen, Los Angeles.

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