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