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“Linda Vallejo has probably been enjoying her best stretch ever over the last decade, both creatively and in terms of curatorial interest.”
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2022
Visualizing what it means to be a person of color, ART Insights, Women’s Caucus for the Arts 50th Anniversary Interview with Linda Vallejo, by Marianne McGrath, January 26, 2022
2022 Terra Lectures in American Art: Decolonising Art History through Latinx Art / Counter-storytelling Chicanx Art and Conceptualism, University of Oxford, The Department of History of Art and Centre for Visual Studies, presented by Professor Charlene Villaseñor Black, Visiting Professor of American Art, 2021-2022, Worcester College, England, May 23, 2022
L.A. Memo Paints a Dynamic Picture of Chicana/o Art, Hyperallergic, by Matt Stromberg, June 26, 2022
Canon in Drag: Female Artists Reimagine Famous Works by Men, ARTnews, by Karen Chernick, December 26, 2022
2021
Generational Reflection, Visual Art Source, by Bill Lasarow, Los Angeles, CA, July 11, 2021
Q+ART: Mexican-American Artist Linda Vallejo Reclaims Her Brown Intellectual Property, Not Real Art: Artist Profile, by Morgan Laurens, October 27, 2021
2020
Frontiers Journal: A Journal of Women Studies, University of Nebraska Press, Vol. 41, No. 1, ISSN: 01609009, EISSN: 15360334, Lincoln, NE, May 2020
2019
Habitat: On the Road, ArtNews Magazine, by Katherine McMahon, New York, NY, January 17, 2019
New Acquisitions Spotlight, Muse Magazine, Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA, Spring 2019
Linda Vallejo and a decade of art that unapologetically embraces browness, LA Times, by Matt Stromberg, Los Angeles, CA, June 30, 2019
Una Mona Lisa morena creó un debate sobre el racismo en el mundo del arte, Milenio Newspaper, Mexico, July 2019
Art Pick: Linda Vallejo Reimagines the Palette of Pop Culture at LA Plaza, LA Weekly, by Falling James, Los Angeles, CA, August 6, 2019
Visualizing Latino Populations Through Art, New York Times, by Jill Cowan, NY, NY, November 6, 2019
2018
In these two art shows, the political is personal for our post-Women’s March country, LA Times, by Christopher Knight, Los Angeles, CA, January 3, 2018
Exploring Resistance, Aesthetica Magazine, by Anna Feintuck, York, England, January 25, 2018
We Need Protests. And Paintings, NY Times, by Héctor Tobar, New York, January 27, 2018
Beach Is in This California Town’s Name, but it Offers Much More, NY Times, by Lucas Peterson, New York, June 26, 2018
Rethinking Brownness: Brown Belongings by Linda Vallejo, Art and Cake LA, by David S. Ruben, Los Angeles, CA, August 14, 2018
The South Dakota Art Museum Hosts “My Hero!” An Exploration of Superhero Narratives, Juxtapoz Magazine, San Francisco, CA, August 22, 2018
2017
The L.A. Art Show Reinvents Itself Again — with Help from Major Museums, LA Times, by Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles, CA, January 10, 2017
Artist’s Mobilize: With Liberty and Justice for Some . . . An Exhibit Honoring Immigrants, The Huffington Post, by Amy Pleasant, New York, January 19, 2017
Artists Reckon With Trump’s Inauguration, NY Times, by Michael Paulson and Andrew R. Chow, New York, January 20, 2017
A New Exhibit Traces the Influence of Zines and Books on L.A.’s Art Scene, LA Weekly, by Eva Recinos, Los Angeles, CA, February 7, 2017
Embedded Messages, Debating the Dream: Truth, Justice and the American Way, The Huffington Post, by Amy Pleasant, New York, February 17, 2017
15 Female Artists Who Shaped the L.A. Artscene, Eva Recinos, LA Weekly, April 3, 2017
Chicana/o Remix: Art and Errata since the Sixties, New York University Press, by Karen Mary Davalos, ISBN: 9781479821129, New York, July 25, 2017
Liberty of Art for All, Curator Love, by Erika Hirugami, August 7, 2017
Brown Washing: Linda Vallejo turns the tables on cultural appropriation for the Getty’s citywide tribute to Latin American influence on Los Angeles, The Argonaut, by Christina Campodonico, Los Angeles, CA, September 21, 2017
Linda Vallejo “Keepin’ it Brown” bG gallery, Art and Cake LA, by Lawrence Gipe, Los Angeles, CA, September 30, 2017
Pick of the Week: Linda Vallejo, Artillery Magazine, Annabel Osberg, October 4, 2017
Inside Self Help Graphics & Art Día De Los Muertos: A Cultural Legacy, Past Present & Future / PST: LA/LA, Fabrik Magazine, Issue 37, by Eva Recinos, Los Angeles, CA, October 17, 2017
2016
Curating Differently, Feminisms, Exhibitions and Curatorial Spaces, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, edited by Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe, ISBN (10): 1-4438-8577-0, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-8577-5, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, January 27, 2016
In her series ‘Make ‘Em All Mexican,’ artist Linda Vallejo imagines #OscarsSoBrown, Los Angeles Times Calendar Section – Cover Feature, by Jorge Rivas, February 19, 2016
‘You want to be a Mexican, here you go’: Linda Vallejo on her ‘Brown Oscars,’ review in ARTnews by Maximilíano Durón, February 27, 2016
Claims by Anglo American feminists and Chicanas/os for alternative space: The LA art scene in the political 1970s, University of Gothenburg, by Eva Zetterman, ISSN: 0044-8060, Gothenburg, Sweden, March 1, 2016
2015
The one museum show Donald Trump should see this summer, New York Post, Barbara Hoffman, New York, NY, July 27, 2015
The Visual Arts of Linda Vallejo: Indigenous Spirituality, Indigenist Sensibility, and Emplacement, Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social, 15(1), by Karen Mary Davalos, Arizona State University, AZ, Fall 2015
Three Artists Experiment with Appropriations in a Readymade Exhibition in New York, Widewalls, by Amy Lin, London, England, September 30, 2015
Political Ecologies of the U.S./Mexico Border, presented at Anthropology at the Edge: The U.S. Mexico Border/lands Symposium, by John Hartigan, Julius Glickman Conference Center, College of Liberal Arts Building, University of Texas
“Linda Vallejo creates work that investigates contemporary cultural and political issues, visualizing what it means to be a person of color in the United States. Linda says 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.”
— Women’s Caucus for the Arts 2022
“Vallejo still avoids being hemmed in stylistically, although much of her recent work featured in her 2019 LA Plaza show Brown Belongings focuses on aesthetic and cultural associations of “Brown identity,” from the geometric abstractions of Datos Sagrados that visualize demographic data regarding Latinas/os, to the media send-ups of her Make ‘Em All Mexican series, in which she tints White movie stars and entertainers various shades of coffee, chocolate, and canela.”
— Hyperallergic 2022
“Throughout Brown Belongings, Vallejo maintains a saucy sense of humor that keeps viewers on their toes. More importantly, her work questions just who the American dream was made for, and, without waiting for an answer, comes to its own conclusion.”
— Not Real Art 2021Digitized ephemera from exhibitions, publications, and special projects, hundreds of art images with details, and a video library.
