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SALOMON HUERTA

Salomon Huerta Biography

The LA based painter Salomón Huerta was born in Tijuana and holds a Master of Fine Art from UCLA. His figurative paintings have been exposed in the US, Mexico, and Europe with famous Gagosian Gallery. His latest solo show was at Christopher Grimes Gallery in Santa Monica.

Born in 1965 in La Colonia Libertad, Tijuana

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

 

EDUCATION

1991     BFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

1998     MFA, UCLA Graduate School, Los Angeles, CA

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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 Città, Verona, Italy

2001
 Gagosian Gallery, London

Salomón Huerta Paintings, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, 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

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016 Devan Shimoyama | Salomón Huerta, Samuel Freeman, Los Angeles, CA

2014 Attunement, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, 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, 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. Traveled to: 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. Traveled 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

Painting and Illustration, Luckman Gallery, California State Unversity, Los Angeles, CA

2002
 Mask or Mirror, Worscter Art Museum, Worscter 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 Città, 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 Monia, CA

Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Revealing and Concealing: Portraits and Identity, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angles. Catalogue; text by Barbara Gilbert

1999
 Five Countries and One City, Mexico City Museum, Mexico City, Mexico

Painting: Fore and Aft, ACME, Los Angeles

Portraiture: Front, Back and In- Between, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California. Catalogue

Identities, University of Southern California Fischer Gallery, Los Angeles. Catalogue

Some Lust, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica

Significant Departures, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, California

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

In the Black, The Irvine Fine Arts Center, California. Catalogue

Post Pre- Raphaelites, Terrain, San Francisco

Vital Signs, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles. Catalogue

1998 Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1997
 LA Current, Hammer Museum, 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

Confrontation, Social and Public Art Resource Center, Venice, CA

Breaking Barriers: Revisualizating the Urban Landscape, Santa Monica Museum of Art

Images of the border, Centro Cultural de Tijuana, Mexico

 

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

CAA, 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