Linda Vallejo Newsletter Winter 2025 ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
Linda Vallejo
 

Winter 2025

 

THE CANOPY

Sustainers of Life

Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA

September 6, 2025 - January 24, 2026

“The Canopy is, both a literal and symbolic shelter. Its skirt-like form honors women as protectors, nurturers, and sustainers of community. When I imagine the canopy, I see it as the presence of women who have come before me—those whose knowledge, strength, and prayers create a shelter for life to flourish.

The two Tree of Life sculptures beneath the canopy carries its own story. In its roots, I see connection to the ancestors—those who carried memory, language, and spirit forward despite enormous loss. In its branches, I see future generations, reaching upward with strength and possibility.” - Linda Vallejo

IMAGE: The Canopy, site specific installation, 2025

 

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

 

MIAMI BASEL 2025

parrasch heijnen

December 5 - 8, 2025

Linda Vallejo: Datos Sagrados

excerpt of essay by Shana Nys Dambrot

“It’s just math,” Vallejo says again, “but again, it’s never just math.” Linda Vallejo transforms the project into something beyond narrative, beyond meta - narrative even, and into the realm of the universal. By taking a simple mathematical process that connects to her own experience, Vallejo has generated a rarefied language of mark - making that is only brown paint on paper, and yet comprises a wealth of holistic meaning from the deeply personal to the political, spiritual, philosophical, and psychological. This is not kind of thing one expects from a Minimalist.

IMAGE: Datos Sagrados, 65% of US Latinos are US Native Born in 2015, 2017, Punjab paper, Gouache, pencil

CHICANO FUTURISM

Lancaster Museum of Art and History

May 16 - August 30, 2026

Self Knowing in the New Age, 2023-2025

“Technology, with its endless data streams, mesmerizing pixilation, and polished mirrors of online life, offers a self-knowing filtered through a digital lens. It promises to advance our understanding of life and yet, in this pursuit, we risk a Faustian bargain. As we outsource our inner reflections to algorithms, our self-knowing begins to disappear. We lose a connection to our natural selves and the possibility of a deep relationship to the natural world.” - Linda Vallejo

“Vallejo’s new series ‘Self Knowing in the New Age’ references to the Indigenous past offer a futurist commentary, one in which the digital realm, indigeneity, and ecofeminism come together to create a more just world, one that envisions preservation and survival in the face of crisis.” - Charlene Villasenor Black, Tutorial Fellow and Professor in the Art of the Americas, Department of History of Art, Worcester College, Oxford University

The New Gods: Earth, Water, Fire, & Air, 2025

These works reinvent the ancient gods and goddesses by juxtaposing the structure of Mesoamerican ceremonial incense burner with contemporary symbol and form. These sculptures merge ancient and contemporary belief asking the viewer to reflect on the ways that historical narratives inform present-day belief systems.

IMAGE above: Self Knowing in the New Age, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 24 X 18in.

IMAGE right: The New Gods: Water, 2025, porcelain, cotton, wool, 22 x 14 x 14 in.

 

ONGOING EXHIBITIONS

 

Act on It: Artists, Community, and the Brockman Gallery in Los Angeles

Vincent Price Art Museum (VPAM): September 27, 2025–January 3, 2026

in collaboration with LA County Museum of Art / LACMA Art Bridge - Local Access Initiative

Closing Program: Common Ground: Saturday, Jan. 17, 2025 at 1:00 p.m.

In 1986, the Brockman Gallery presented “Common Ground,” a landmark exhibition that invited audiences to reflect on the shared struggles, creative expressions, and cultural values of underrepresented artists across communities. Curated by esteemed Chicana artist Linda Vallejo, the show affirmed, “We are all here together, living on common ground.”

IMAGE: UIndigena, 1986, Self Help Graphics Atelier, silkscreen print, 30 x 40 in.

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

September 6, 2025 - January 24, 2026

curated by Cecelia Koger, Director of Exhibitions and artist Laurie Steelink

“Sustainers of Life” features seven artists exploring colonialism’s impact, motherhood, and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women crisis while also celebrating individual stories of resilience and survival.

IMAGE: The Canopy, site specific installation, 2025

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

September. 25 - December 6, 2025

This exhibition, drawn from The Durón Family Collection, offers a distinct journey through Chicanx art from the mid-1900s to the present. Displayed in various media — including painting, drawing, photography, and sculpture — Seeing Chicanx paints a vivid picture of the Durons’ decades-long commitment to supporting Chicanx artists within Los Angeles’s regional art scene.

IMAGE: Brown Baroque: Espejo 39%, 2023, repurposed antique mirror, acrylic bronze mirror, acrylic enamel, 22 x 14 x 9 in.

 

RECENT PROJECTS

 

INSIDE-OUT: Standing in a Threshold

curated by Tamar Halpern

Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY

presented as Part of Letters to the Future — organized by Prem Krishnamurthy, Department of Transformation, and Cora Fisher

A curatorial project and publication that gathers artists, friends whose practices reach toward the invisible—through ritual, ancestry, intuition, memory, and esoteric knowledge. It centers the human impulse to connect: with each other, with those who came before, and with the forces that lie beyond language.

Including Frederic Tcheng, Michael Joo, Kelltie Ferris, Sara VandDerBeek, Tamar Halpern, Craig Kalpakjian, Robert Janitz, Anna Ostoyaa, Prem Krishnamurthy, Liz Magic Laser, Dana Hoey, and The Judith Center featuring Warren Niedich & Linda Vallejo and featuring an original essay by Dana Hoey.

 

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

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

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

AltaMed Art Collection, 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

Recent Solo Exhibitions

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

2023 - Linda Vallejo: Brown Baroque, CSU San Bernardino 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

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026

Chicano Futurism, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA, May 16 - Aug 30, 2026

Los Four: The Art and Legacy of Chicano Excellence, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA, September 2026

2025

Miami Basel, parrasch heijnen, Miami, FL, December 5 - 8, 2025

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, September 6 - December 6, 2025

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): September 27, 2025–January 3, 2026

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, September. 25 - December 6, 2025

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

INSIDE-OUT: Standing in a Threshold, curated by Tamar Halpern, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY, in collaboration with The Judith Center, October 2025

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

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

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

Sending my best to all for a happy holiday season!

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