Salomón Huerta

Salomón Huerta is a painter based in Los Angeles, California. Huerta was born in Tijuana, Mexico, and grew up in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. Huerta received a full scholarship to attend the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and completed his MFA at UCLA in 1998.

Let Everything Else Burn
In 2012 Huerta published the artist book Let Everything Else Burn, a collection of short autobiographical texts paired with well-known artworks and archived images concerning his personal history and past.

Biography
1965 	Born in La Colonia Libertad, Tijuana

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

1998	MFA, UCLA Graduate School, Los Angeles, CA

Solo Exhibitions

2019 Humanizing the Other: Art by Salomón Huerta, Kwan Fong Gallery, Thousand Oaks, CA

2018 Still Lifes, There There, 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 Citta, Italy

2001     Gagosian Gallery, London Salomon Huerta Paintings, Austin Museum of Art, 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

2019 ¡Chicanismo!: The Sanchez Collection, AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

2017 Home—So Different, So Appealing: Art from the Americas since 1957, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

2011 So, Who Do You Think You Are?, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, 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, Tijuana, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA Exquisite Crisis and Encounters, Asian/Pacific/American Institute, NYU, New York, NY

2006  Strange New Worlds, Tijuana, La Jolla Museum, La Jolla CA Transactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Diego, San Diego, CA Retratos, San Antonio Museum, San Antonio, TX, Traveling: National Portrait Gallery at the S. Dillion Ripley Center, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

2005  Group Show, Robert Miller, NY, NY Group Show, El Museo del Barrio, NY, NY Retratos, El Museo del Barrio, NY, NY High Drama, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA, Traveling 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 2002 Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC Phoenix Triennial 2001, Contemporary Art: AZ CA MX NM TX, Phoenix Art Museum

2000 	Studio la Città Verona The Next Wave: New Painting in Southern California, California Center for the Arts Escondido East of the River: Chicano Art Collectors Anonymous, Santa Monica Museum of Art Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY NY

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

1998	 Patricia Faure Gallery Santa Monica

1997 	LA Current, Armand Hammer Museum Gallery Westwood

1995 	Vital Signs, Municipal Art Gallery Los Angeles

1994 	El Expectio Chicano, Mt. San Antonio College Pomona

Selected Public Collections

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS Worcester Museum of Art, Worcester, MA Colby College Museum, Waterville, ME CAA, Beverly Hills, CA Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA