Fall 2026

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

Layers of the City

Bakersfield Museum of Art

October 1, 2026 – April 24, 2027

Layers of the City examines urbanscapes and urban life as layered constructs—formed through the accumulation of architecture, infrastructure, cultural expression, and human presence. The exhibition considers the city not only as a built environment, but as a lived, dynamic space shaped by migration, labor, culture, daily rhythms, and the ongoing pressures of redevelopment and gentrification that continually reshape neighborhood identity.

The title, drawn from Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere’s Layers of the City, becomes both a metaphor and a method: the city revealed as a layered composition of visual, cultural, and lived experiences. BMoA's new director, Gilbert Vicario, introduced me to this piece and I am looking forward to this project.

In dialogue with Graciela Iturbide’s Las Californias, which presents poetic and intimate photographs spanning from East Los Angeles, California, to Tijuana, Baja California, this companion exhibition turns toward the density and complexity of the urban condition—where streets, signage, bodies, and histories overlap.

ACT ON IT! Brockman Gallery Los Angeles 1967-1990

Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA

October 18, 2026–January 24, 2027

The first large-scale exhibition dedicated to the impact of the Brockman Gallery, founded in South L.A. by brothers Alonzo and Dale Brockman Davis in the wake of the Watts Rebellion. Their space became vital for young artists of color, nurturing the early careers of David Hammons, Suzanne Jackson, and Carrie Mae Weems, among others. Featuring rich archival material and over 60 works of art across media—all with ties to the Davises’ community-oriented project—the exhibition traces how the Davises cultivated a space for artistic experimentation, intellectual exchange, and multicultural community.

Vivir la Tierra: Acquisitions from the Permanent Collection 2010–2026

National Museum of Mexican Art, Rubin & Paula Torres Gallery

Chicago, Ill

August 15, 2026 - February 7, 2027

Drawing from the National Museum of Mexican Art Permanent Collection, Vivir la Tierra brings together more than forty works acquired over the last sixteen years, spanning the late nineteenth century to the present across photography, painting, printmaking, sculpture, installation, and video. The exhibition explores tierra (land) as a living archive of belonging, labor, memory, and embodied knowledge. Moving from early photographic representations of the Mexican landscape to contemporary artistic explorations of land and identity, and to works that address migration, collective labor, and community formation in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood. Within these threads, the exhibition reveals how artists have constantly reimagined la tierra as a place shaped by movement, placemaking, and acts of resistance. Land is understood not as territory, but as a lived relationship shaped by care, experience, and collective becoming in continuous transformation.

Curated by Alivé Piliado

(above) California Horizons, Boney Ridge, 2006, oil on canvas, 24x48 in.

SPECIAL PROJECTS

Cast of artists, collectives, historians & scholars - Nancy Angelo, Eleanor Antin, Jerri Allyn, Ariadne: A Social Art Network, Judy Baca, John Baldessari, Bob & Bob, Lauren Bon, Betty Ann Brown, Nancy Buchanan, Chris Burden, Linda Burnham, Nao Bustamante, Cassils, Judy Chicago, Carol P. Christ, Patrisse Cullors, Miriam Cutler, Betsy Damon, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Deborah De Robertis, Zackary Drucker, Mary Beth Edelson, Marguerite Elliot, Feminist Art Workers, Flawless Sabrina, Peter Frank, Fuerza Artística de Choque Comunicativo, Anne Gauldin, Cheri Gaulke, Catherine Gudis, Guerrilla Girls, Kiyo Gutiérrez, Handmaid Army DC, Helen and Newton Harrison, Maren Hassinger, Anna Homler, Melissa Huddleston, Ulysses Jenkins, Shawnee Wollenman Johnson, Amelia Jones, Laurel Klick, Deborah Krall, Leslie Labowitz Starus, Suzanne Lacy, Stephanie Lane, Jacky Lansley, Lastesis Colectivo, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Les Colleuses, Karen LeCocq, Nick Lieberman, Sue Maberry, Marka Maberry-Gaulke, Xochi Maberry-Gaulke, Elana Mann, Paul McCarthy, Laura Meyer, Susan Mogul, Linda Montano, Mother Art, Senga Nengudi, Ni Santas, Linda Nishio, Pauline Oliveros, Mehregan Pezeshki, Glenn Phillips, Phranc, Adrian Piper, Sally Potter, Pussy Riot, Yvonne Rainer, Arlene Raven, Cindy Rehm, Faith Ringgold, Ulrike Rosenbach, Rachel Rosenthal, Sheree Rose, Martha Rosler, She Loves Collective, Bonnie Sherk, Laura Silagi, Suzanne Siegel, Sisters Of Survival, Barbara T. Smith, Nina Sobell, Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens, May Sun, Cheryl Swannack, Kayla Tange, The Dark Bob, Nadya Tolokonnikova, Lily Tomlin, Tomorrow Girls Troop, Tsukuru Fors, Linda Vallejo, The Waitresses, Ruth Weisberg, Johanna Went, Faith Wilding, Martha Wilson, Terry Wolverton, Nancy Youdelman.

Project Head Iria Gómez del Castillo, Pre-doctoral Researcher, Institute of History / School of Hispanic-American Studies, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) working in collaboration with artist Linda Vallejo and research assistant Keilani Rodriquez, BA, Art History and Global Cultures, CSU Bernardino.

Las Flores de Aztlan, a Chicana Indigenous Danza Troupe performing throughout California in the 1970s-1980s.  Las Flores presented at numerous colleges, universities, and community events including Self Help Graphics Day of the Dead celebrations and with the Royal Chicano Air Force Fiesta de Colores celebrations in Sacramento, CA.  Oral history interviews will include Josephina Gallardo, founder of Las Flores de Aztlan and student of renowned Aztec Danzante Florencio Yescas, and Flores members Ana Luisa Espinoza, Irma ‘Cui Cui’ Rangel, Norma Pedregon, and Linda Vallejo, Chicana artists, wellness practitioners, and community culture bearers.

SELECTED RESUME

Representation

parrasch heijnen, Los Angeles

Membership

Hammer Museum Artist Council

Recent Awards

Lifetime Achievement Award, National Women’s Caucus for the Arts 2022

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Oral History Program

Selected Permanent Collections

Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, TX

MSU Broad Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, Michigan

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Eileen Harris Norton Collection, Santa Monica, CA

Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA, Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles County Natural History Museum, Los Angeles, CA

El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY

Vincent Price Museum, East Los Angeles College, Los Angeles, CA

The National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, Ill

AltaMed Art Collection, Los Angeles, CA

Recent Solo Exhibitions

2024 - Linda Vallejo, Selected Works 1969-2024, parrasch heijnen, Los Angeles

2023 - Linda Vallejo: Brown Baroque, CSU San Bernardino R&F Fullerton Museum

2019-20 - Linda Vallejo: Brown Belongings, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, LA, CA

2017 - Keepin’ it Brown, Getty PST: LA/LA, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Select Group Exhibitions

2026 -2027

Vivir la Tierra: Acquisitions from the Permanent Collection 2010–2026, National Museum of Mexican Art, Rubin & Paula Torres Gallery, Aug 15, 2026 - Feb 7, 2027

Layers of the City, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA, October 1, 2026 – April 24, 2027

ACT ON IT! Brockman Gallery Los Angeles 1967-1990, Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA, October 18, 2026–January 24, 2027

2025

Miami Basel, parrasch heijnen, Miami, FL

Sustainers of Life: Indigenous women as keepers of tradition, connections to the earth, and sustainers of the cycle of life, Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA

Act on It: Artists, Community, and the Brockman Gallery in Los Angeles, LA County Museum of Art / LACMA Art Bridge - Local Access Initiative, Vincent Price Art Museum (VPAM)

Seeing Chicanx: The Durón Family Collection, a visual history of L.A.’s Chicanx Art Scene, Loyola Marymount University, Laband Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA,

Take me to your leader! Franklin Parrasch, New York, NY

Back At Cha - A Celebration of Alonzo Davis, parrasch heijnen, Los Angeles, CA

The Judith Center Poster Project [Phase 1]: Freedom in the Automation Age, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State U in partnership with The Judith Center

Selected Bibliography 2024-25

Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, Indigeneity and Embodied Knowledge in the Art of Linda Vallejo, Charlene Villaseñor Black, Volume, 50, Issue 1, Spring 2025

Artillery Magazine, Linda Vallejo’s Extraordinary Vision: A new Exhibition at parrasch heijnen showcases five decades of the artist’s work, November 14, 2024

The Art Newspaper, The Judith Center, a new Los Angeles art space focuses on the experiences of women, November 12, 2024

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, October 4, 2024

FRIEZE LONDON, ‘Smoke’: Christine Howard Sandoval and Linda Vallejo, parrasch heijnen presents a dual exhibition that explores the cultural memory of communities and lands, July 29, 2024

Yale University Press, New Haven and London, All These Liberations: Women Artist in the Eileen Harris Norton Collection edited by Taylor Renee Aldridge

University of Arizona Press, Mujeres de Maiz en Movimiento: Spiritual Artivism, Healing Justice, and Feminist Praxis

The New York Times, At Los Angeles Galleries, Savoring the Waning Days of Summer, Jonathan Griffin, August 8, 2024