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 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).

She was currently included in Seeing Chicanx: The Durón Family Collection at the Monterey Museum of Art, Pacific Street, in Monterey, California from January 18 - April 28, 2024, Xican–a.o.x. Body, a national traveling exhibition organized by the American Federation of the Arts and curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Gilbert Vicario, & Marissa Del Toro, and In Your Face: Arte Chicana Dopo / In Your Face: Chicano Art After C.A.R.A., an international traveling exhibition organized by AltaMed Art Collection.

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, 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 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.

Recent bibliography includes ArtNews, "Canon in Drag: Female Artists Reimagine Famous Works by Men,"  December 2023; Aztlan: Journal of Chicano Studies, "Artist Linda Vallejo and Chicana Conceptualism," UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, Spring 2022; and Terra Lectures in American Art, "Chicanx Art and Conceptualism: Decolonising Art History through Latinx Art," University of Oxford, Worcester College, England, November, 2003.