Salomón Huerta
Education
- BFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
- MFA, UCLA Graduate School, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Exhibitions
- 2022
- "Daily Ritual," Harper’s Chelsea 534, New York, NY
- 2019
- "Recent Paintings," Louis Alexander Gallery, Sardinia, Italy
- 2018
- "Still Lifes," There There Gallery, 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 Cittá, Verona, Italy
- 2001
- "Salomón Huerta Paintings," Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
- 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
Selected Group Exhibitions, Performances and Video Screenings
- 2023
- "Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
- 2019
- "Condo Shanghai 2019," Gallery Vacancy Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- 2018
- "Building Bridges Arte Chicago/Mexicano De LA," A CD MX Museo De Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
- "Chicanismo! The Sanchez Collection," Museum of UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
- 2017
- "About Face," W. Keith and Jenet Kellogg University Art Gallery, Pomona, CA
- "Home-So Different, So Appealing," LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
- "Breaching Walls Real and Imaginary," Skyline College Art Gallery, San Bruno, CA
- 2010
- "A Group Painting Show," Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA
- 2009
- "Superficiality and Superexcrescence," Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art & 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, Art and Design from Tijuana," Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
- "Exquisite Crisis and Encounters," Asian/Pacific/American Institute, New York University, New York, NY
- 2006
- "Strange New Worlds, Art and Design from Tijuana," Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
- "Transactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art," Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
- "Retratos," San Antonio Museum, San Antonio, TX; National Portrait Gallery at the S. Dillion Ripley Center, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
- 2005
- Group Show, Robert Miller, New York, NY
- Group Show, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
- "Retratos," El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
- "High Drama," Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA.; 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
- "Painting and Illustration," Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
- 2002
- "Mask or Mirror," Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
- "Art on Paper," Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
- "Phoenix Triennial 2001, Contemporary Art: AZ CA MX NM TX< Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
- "Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990s," Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
- 2000
- Studio la Cittá, Verona, Italy
- "The Next Wave: New Painting in Southern California," California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
- "East of the River: Chicano Art Collectors Anonymous," Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
- Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
- 1999
- "Five Countries and One City," Mexico City Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
- "Painting: Fore and Aft," ACME< Los Angeles, CA
- "Portraiture: Front, Back and In- Between," Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California
- "Identities," University of Southern California Fischer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- "Some Lust," Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- "Significant Departures," Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA
- "In the Red," Jahresausstellung, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich, Germany
- "LA Current, Art Rental and Sales Gallery," The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Lobby, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- "In the Black," The Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
- "Post Pre-Ralphaelites," Terrain, San Francisco, CA
- "Vital Signs," Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 1998
- Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- 1997
- "LA Current," The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Lobby, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- 1995
- "Vital Signs," Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 1994
- "El Expectio Chicano," Mt. San Antonio College, Pomona, CA
- "La Familia," The Los Angeles County Century Gallery, Sylmar, CA
- 1992
- "Dia de los Muertos," Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, CA
- "Confrontation," Social and Public Art Resource Center, Venice, CA
- "Breaking Barriers: Revisualizating the Urban Landscape," Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
- "Images of the border," Centro Cultural de Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico
Public Collections
- Creative Artists Agency, Beverly Hills, CA
- Colby College Museum, Waterville, ME
- Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
- Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, San Diego, CA
- Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
- Worcester Museum of Art, Worcester, MA
Bibliography
- 2014
- Dambrot, Shana Nys. "Salomón Huerta at Christopher Grimes Gallery," Art Ltd., July/August
- Zellen, Jody. "Salomón Huerta," ArtScene, June
- Pagel, David. “Salomon Huerta’s Paintings push beyond the comfort zone,” Los Angeles Times, May 16
- 2012
- Dambrot, Shana Nys. “Bound and Exhibited,” LA Weekly, January 12
- 2010
- Young, Sadie “Artist Salomón Huerta to discuss his methods at the Museum of Contemporary Art,” Encore Magazine, July 9
- 2009
- Bedford, Christopher, “Salomón Huerta,” Art In America, Issue 102, January
- "Superficiality and Superexcrescence," Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California (exhibition catalogue, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Design, Los Angeles, CA
- Meldrod, George. “Mask of a Pro,” Art ltd. January/ February, Pg 34-36.
- 2008
- Ollman, Leah. “Between Face and Disguise,” Los Angeles Times, April 18
- 2006
- "Transactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art," Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, California
- 2005
- Kun, Josh. “The New Chicano Movement,” The Los Angeles Times Magazine, January 9
- Choy, Lillian H. "Insatiable desires." USC Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, University Park, Los Angeles, CA
- Kaufman, Katrina. “Salomón Huerta: Holding the Light,” Venice, September 2005: 88-90
- "Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin American Portraits," Yale University Press: New Haven, CT
- 2004
- Duncan, Michael. "High Drama: Eugene Berman and The Legacy of the Melancholic Sublime," Union Hills Press: Manchester, 2004.
- 2003
- Miles, Christopher. "Salomón Huerta, House Paintings," Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, California
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- Bullis, Douglas. "100 Artists of the West Coast," Schiffer Publishing: Atglen, Pennsylvania
- Pagel, David. “Huerta’s Homes-Ruthless but Warm,” Los Angeles Times, April 11
- 2002
- "Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990’s," Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, California
- Berwick, Carly. “Fuchsia Shock,” Artnews, March, Pg 100
- "Mask or Mirror? A Play of Portraits," Worchester Art Museum, Worchester Massachusetts, 2002. (exhibition catalogue)
- 2001
- Ferrer, Elizabeth. "Salomon Huerta Paintings," Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, 2001. (exhibition catalog)
- Phoenix Triennial, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, 2001. (exhibition catalogue)
- Barragàn, Paco. "The Art To Come," Subastas Siglo XXI, Madrid, Spain
- Dambrot, Shana Nys. "Salomón Huerta at Patricia Faure Gallery." Artweek, January, 32, p.21
- 2000
- Pagel, David. "Elusive Figures," Los Angeles Times, November 3
- Miles, Christopher. “About Face,” Flaunt, November, Pg 94-98
- "The New Latin Cool," ArtNet.com Magazine, November
- "Biennale di Whitney", tema celeste, (Marzo-Aprile) 2000. October 8; "The New Latin Cool," ArtNet.com Magazine, November
- Ollman, Leah. "Los Angeles Times," October 12
- Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter. "This Painter Reveals by Disguising," Los Angeles Times, October 8
- Knight, Christopher. "Catching the Next Wave of Painters," Los Angeles Times, June 20
- Siegel, Katy. "Biennial 2000," Whitney Museum of American Art, ARTFORUM, May
- Plagens, Peter. “Art in the Fast Lane,” Newsweek, Pg 70-73. Representing LA, April 10
- 1999
- Melrod, George. "Young at Art," Los Angeles Magazine, November
- González, Rita.“Post-Chicano,” Poliester, Spring/Summer 1999: Pg 40-47
- "Five Continents and One City: Second International Salon of Painting," Museum of Mexico City, Mexico, 1999. (exhibition catalogue)
- Carotenuto, Gianna. "Salomón Huerta," Art issues., January/February
- Cooper, Jacqueline. "On View: Santa Monica," New Art Examiner, February
- Miles, Christopher. "Salomón Huerta," Art Papers, March/April
- Zellen, Jody. "Salomón Huerta at Patricia Faure," D’Art International, Winter
- 1998
- Pagel, David. "The Enduring Puzzlement of Huerta’s People," Los Angeles Times, November 13
- 1996
- Intersecting Identities. Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 1996. (exhibition catalogue)