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Linda Vallejo consolidates multiple, international influences gained from a life of study and travel throughout Europe, the United States, and Mexico to create works that investigate contemporary cultural and political issues, and that visualize what it means to be a person of colour in the United States. She states that these works reflect her “brown intellectual property”: the experiences, knowledge, and feelings gathered over more than four decades of study of Latino, Chicana/o, and American Indigenous culture and communities.
Solo exhibitions of Vallejo’s newest work—Make ‘Em All Mexican, The Brown Dot Project, and Datos Sagrados—have been presented at many institutions, including the LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes (2019-2020); Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach (2018); bG Gallery, Santa Monica (2017); and University of California at Los Angeles Chicano Studies Research Center (2015). In 2022 Vallejo will present The Brown Solo Project at MOLAA. Her work has also been part of numerous group exhibitions, including among others the Getty Foundation’s 2017 initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, and Mapping Another LA: The Chicano Art Movement at the Fowler Museum at UCLA (2011 – 2012). Vallejo lives in Topanga Canyon, California.
2017
Linda Vallejo
Repurposed antique postcard, pigment print, colored pencil | Lápiz de color y pigmentos impresos sobre postal antigua reutilizada48.1 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm (15 x 18 x 1.5 in)
Collection of the artist | Colección del artista
Photo courtesy of the artist | Imagen cortesía del artista
2021
Linda Vallejo
Repurposed photograph printed on aluminum, acrylic | Fotografía reutilizada impresa sobre aluminio, acrílico
104.1 x 78.7 x 3.8 cm (41 x 31 x 1.5 in)
Collection of the artist | Colección del artista
Photo courtesy of the artist | Imagen cortesía del artista
2021
Linda Vallejo
Repurposed plastic, acrylic | Acrílico sobre plástico reutilizado
6.9 x 5 cm (2.75 x 2 in) each
Collection of the artist | Colección del artista
Photo courtesy of the artist | Imagen cortesía del artista
We asked the artist to share their favourite things | Le pedimos a cada artista que comparta sus cosas favoritas.
