represented by Parrasch Heijnen, Los Angeles
Born 1951 in East Los Angeles.
Linda Vallejo is a painter and installation artist. A career that spans five decades speaks to socio-cultural, socio-political, and environmental issues. Vallejo is represented by parrasch heijnen, Los Angeles. She is a National Women’s Caucus for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Awardee.
Selected solo exhibitions include parrasch heijnen gallery, Los Angeles, (2024), the Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, CSU San Bernardino, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, Los Angeles(2019-2020); bG Gallery, Santa Monica (2017); Texas A&M University Reynolds Gallery (2016); Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago, Ill, and UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, Los Angeles CA (2015); Lancaster Museum of Art and History in Lancaster CA (2017 & 2014); the Soto Clemente Velez Cultural Center, New York (2014), George Lawson Gallery, Los Angeles, and the New Mexico State University Art Gallery (2013).
Permanent collections include the AltaMed Art Collection, Los Angeles, CA, Eileen Harris-Norton Collection, Santa Monica, CA, Los Angeles County Natural History Museum, Los Angeles, 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 Ill, Carnegie Art Museum, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, CA, UC Santa Barbara, California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA), Santa Barbara, CA, UCLA Chicano Study Research Center (CSRC), Los Angeles, CA.
2024 bibliography includes Artillery Magazine, Linda Vallejo’s Extraordinary Vision: A new Exhibition at parrasch heijnen showcases five decades of the artist’s work, The Art Newspaper, The Judith Center, a new Los Angeles art space focuses on the experiences of women, Financial Times, Curator Pablo José Ramírez: ‘Art history doesn’t belong exclusively to the western world', New York Times, At Los Angeles Galleries, Savoring the Waning Days of Summer, FRIEZE LONDON, ‘Smoke’: Christine Howard Sandoval and Linda Vallejo, At Frieze London 2024, parrasch heijnen presents a dual exhibition that explores the cultural memory of communities and lands, Chican-o.a.x. Body edited by Cecilia Fajardo Hill, Gilbert Vicario, & Marissa Del Toro, Hirmer, All These Liberations: Women Artist in the Eileen Harris Norton Collection edited by Taylor Renee Aldridge, distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven and London, Mujeres de Maiz en Movimiento: Spiritual Artivism, Healing Justice, and Feminist Praxis edited by Amber Rose González, Felicia 'Fe' Montes, and Nadia Zepeda, University of Arizona Press, Art and Cake, Linda Vallejo – Select Works, 1969 – 2024 at parrasch heijnen.
Digitized ephemera from exhibitions, publications, and special projects, hundreds of art images with details, and a video library.