Linda Vallejo
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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2019
Cowan, Jill, “Visualizing Latino Populations Through Art.” The New York Times, November 2019.
Rubin, David, “Rethinking Brownness: Brown Belongings by Linda Vallejo.” Art and Cake LA, August 2019.
Stromberg, Matt, “Linda Vallejo and a decade of art that unapologetically embraces brownness.” Los Angeles Times, June 2019.
James, Falling, “Art Pick: Linda Vallejo Reimagines the Palette of Pop Culture at La Plaza.” LA Weekly, August 2019.
2018
Gipe, Lawrence, “Linda Vallejo ‘Keepin’ it Brown’.” Art and Cake, September 2017.
Osberg, Annabel, “Linda Vallejo.” Artillery, October 2017.
Recinos, Eva, “15 Female Artists Who’ve Shaped the L.A. Art Scene.” LA Weekly, April 2017.
2016
Dambrot, Shana Nys, “Linda Vallejo: Charge of the Soul.” Huffington Post, November 2016.
Miranda, Carolina, “In her series ‘Make ‘Em All Mexican,’ artist Linda Vallejo imagines #OscarsSoBrown.” Los Angeles Times, February 2016.
Durón, Maximilíano, “‘You Want to Be a Mexican, Here You Go’: Linda Vallejo on Her ‘Brown Oscars’.” ARTnews, February 2016.
Vargas, Andrew, “Linda Vallejo Brownwashed Past Oscars Winners in ‘Make ‘Em All Mexican’ Collection.” Remezcla, February 2016.
2014
Kinney, Tulsa, “Linda Vallejo Paints a New Color Scheme.” Artillery, November 2014.