Salomón Huerta is a painter based in Los Angeles, California. Huerta was born in Tijuana, Mexico, and grew up in the Boyle Heights Projects in East Los Angeles. Huerta received a full scholarship to attend the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and completed his MFA at UCLA in 1998. Huerta gained critical acclaim and commercial attention in the late 1990s for his minimalist portraits of the backs of people's heads and color-saturated depictions of domestic urban architecture. He was included in the 2000 Whitney Biennial and has been featured in numerous exhibitions around the US, Europe, Latin America, The Gagosian Gallery in London England, and Studio La Città in Verona, Italy.
Let Everything Else Burn
In 2012 Huerta published the artist book Let Everything Else Burn, a collection of short autobiographical texts paired with well-known artworks and archived images concerning his personal history and past.
Biography
1965 Born in La Colonia Libertad, Tijuana
1991 BFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
1998 MFA, UCLA Graduate School, Los Angeles, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2019
Humanizing the Other: Art by Salomón Huerta, Kwan Fong Gallery, Thousand Oaks, CA
2018
Still Lifes, There There, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2008
Mask, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA
2005
Portrait of a Friend, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2003
Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2002
Studio La Citta, Italy
2001
Gagosian Gallery, London
Salomon Huerta Paintings, Austin Museum of Art, Texas (catalogue)
2000
Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1999
Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1994
Julie Rico Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1993
Julie Rico Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
¡Chicanismo!: The Sanchez Collection, AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
2017
Home—So Different, So Appealing: Art from the Americas since 1957, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2011
So, Who Do You Think You Are?, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2010
A Group Painting Show, Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica, CA
2009
Superficiality and Superexcrescence, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA Here's Looking at You, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008
My Generation, Spichernohe, Koln, Germany
2007
Strange New Worlds, Tijuana, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Exquisite Crisis and Encounters, Asian/Pacific/American Institute, NYU, New York, NY
2006
Strange New Worlds, Tijuana, La Jolla Museum, La Jolla CA
Transactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Diego, San Diego, CA Retratos, San Antonio Museum, San Antonio, TX, Traveling: National Portrait Gallery at the S. Dillion Ripley Center, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
2005
Group Show, Robert Miller, NY, NY
Group Show, El Museo del Barrio, NY, NY
Retratos, El Museo del Barrio, NY, NY
High Drama, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA, Traveling to: McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pa New Watercolors, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004
White on White, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2003
Intimates, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Great Drawing Show, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Phoenix Triennial 2001, Contemporary Art: AZ CA MX NM TX, Phoenix Art Museum
2000
Studio la Città Verona
The Next Wave: New Painting in Southern California, California Center for the Arts Escondido East of the River: Chicano Art Collectors Anonymous, Santa Monica Museum of Art Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY NY