John M. Valadez
Los Angeles, CA
Education
1986 California State University, Long Beach – B.F.A.
1970-02 East Los Angeles Junior College
Awards
2017 Vincent and Mary Price Legacy Award, Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles
2001 Grant, Joan Mitchell Foundation
1999 Art in Public Places Award, The Architecture Foundation of Orange County Federal Office Building and Courthouse, Santa Ana, CA
1996 General Service Administration (Design) Award, El Paso Federal Building
1994 Getty Fellowship Award, California Community Arts Foundation
1987 Artist in Residence, Foundation d’Art de la Napoule, France
Mural Commissions (in existence)
2019 Ximeno Street Mural, Sunny Days in Long Beach 16‘X 24” Long Beach CA
2018 Fine Arts Solutions, Vernon CA ‘River Rescue 12’ X 16”
2014 Muse’e d Aquitaine, Bordeaux France 25’ X 11’ Bordeaux France
2011 421 Gallery-Lyon Communities, 18’x65’, intersection of Broadway and Magnolia, Long Beach CA
2002–03 Junipero Serra State Office Building Mural Project, State of California. Dept. of General Services. 12’x54′, Downtown Los Angeles, CA
2000-03 Metro Goldline Memorial Park Station,12’X100’ Pasadena, CA
1995-98 Ronald Reagan Federal Building and Court House Mural Project, 15′ x 70’.Santa Ana, CA
General Services Administration Art in Architecture Program, Wash.D.C.
1991-93 El Paso Federal Office Building Mural 12’X48’ atrium and at border crossing station. 9’x6′ mural. Isleta, TX
1981 Broadway Street Mural, 8‘X60’, Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
Museum Collections
Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
Boise Museum of Art, Boise, ID
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Carnegie Museum of Art, Oxnard, CA
Centre d’Art, Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
Cheech Marin Collection, Malibu, CA
Daniel Saxon Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Dennis Hopper Collection, Venice, CA
El Centro Cultural Tijuana, B.C., Mexico
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
Gerald Buck Art Collection, University California Irvine, Orange County CA
Gruenwald Art Center at the Armand Hammer Museum
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego La Jolla, CA
University of Texas, Archer Huntington Gallery, Austin, TX
National Mexican Museum, Chicago, IL
Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA
Musee d’ Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian, Washington, DC
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan Utah
Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
UCI Institute and Museum for California Art Collection, Irvine CA
University of California at Los Angeles Research Library Dept. of Special Collections, Los Angeles, CA
University of New Mexico, Las Cruces, NM
University of Texas, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Museum Solo Exhibitions
2012-2013
“Santa Ana Condition,” John M. Valadez , Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, San Diego, Ca., National Mexican Museum of Art, Chicago, Vincent Price Museum, East Los Angeles College (catalogue)
2001 “John Valadez Europa,” Carnegie Art Museum in Oxnard, CA
2000 “John Valadez: La Frontera/The Border,” Carnegie Art Museum in Oxnard, CA
1986 Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, NY
Museum Group Exhibitions
2022-2023 IN YOUR FACE, ARTE CHICANA DOPO C.A.R.A., Instituto Cervantes Di Roma, Italia
2022-2023 TRAITOR, SURVIVOR, ICON: La Malinche and the Conquest of Mexico Denver Art Museum, Denver Colorado, Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque NM, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio Texas
2018-2020 BUILDING BRIDGES in TIME of WALLS: Chicano / Mexican Art from Los Angeles to Mexico, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil Mexico City, Museo de las Artes Universidad de Guadalajara Jalisco, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon Acapulco, Guerrero Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Baja California (catalogue)
2019 El Paso Museum of Art Permanent Collection Exhibit, El Paso Texas
2018-2019 DOWN these MEAN STREETS: Community and Place in Urban Photography, Smithsonian American Art Museum Wash DC, Museo del Barrio NY, New York
2017
2015 TEN Pick TEN, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, Arizona
2014 CHICANO DREAM, Musee d’ Aquitaine, Bordeaux France (catalogue)
2013-2014 Our America: THE LATINO PRESENCE IN AMERICAN ART, Smithsonian
American Art Museum, Wash. D.C., traveling, (catalogue)
2013 ART OF THE WEST- The 25TH Anniversary Exhibition, Gene Autry Museum Los Angeles, Ca. (permanent display)
2012-2013 “MEX/LA: ‘Mexican’ Modernism(s) in Los Angeles, 1930-1985,” Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA (catalogue)
2009 “ Calligraffiti, Writing in Contemporary Chinese and Latino Art, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA.
2008 Cheech Marin Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2008 “20 Years Ago Today,” The California Community Foundation and the Getty Foundation-Fellowships for Visual Artists 20 year history exhibition. Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2007-08 “The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young” San Francisco, CA. (catalogue).
“Papel Chicano: Works on Paper from the Collection of Cheech Marin.” Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, AZ. Muzeo, Anaheim, CA. (catalogue).
2001-06 “Chicano Visions-American Painters on the Verge,” San Antonio Museum, TX (catalogue) Traveling show including De Young Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Wiseman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Smithsonian Institute, DC. Albuquerque Mexican Culture Center, NM, El Paso Museum, TX, Indiana State Museum, Idianapolis, Indiana (catalogue)
2005 “Conversations, Artists Curators Collections, group show. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles, CA, installation with video (catalogue).
2004-2006 “Arte Caliente, Selections from the Joe A. Diaz Collection, (catalogue) The South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, TX. National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2001 “Mexicanidad,” Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, IL
2000-01 Los Angeles County Museum of Art – Road to Aztlan, Art from a Mythic Homeland (catalogue)
1995-97 “Distant Relations: A Dialogue Among Chicano, Irish, and Mexican Artist,” Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (catalogue)
1995 “Benito Juarez: Prints by Artists from Mexico City and Los Angeles,” Armand Hammer Museum at UCLA, CA
“Under Construction: Rethinking Images of Identity,” Amory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA (catalogue)
1993-95 “Art of the Other Mexico: Sources and Meaning,” Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, IL (catalogue); Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico; Museo del Barrio, New York City, NY; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
1994 “The Mystical in Art,” Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
1989 “Hispanic Art on Paper,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
“The Pasadena Armory Show,” Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
1987-89 “Hispanic Art in the United States: Thirty Contemporary Painters and Sculptors,” Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (catalogue)
1983 “Olympiad…Summer 1984,” East Coast/West Coast Invitational “A Traves de la Frontera,” Centro de Estrudio Economicos y Sociales del Tecer Mexico City, Mexico
1981 “Il Coloquio Latino Americano de Fotografia,” Instituto nacional de Belles Artes Mexico City, Mexico (cataglogue)
Selected Gallery Solo Exhibitions
2020 Pinturas Pandemia, Eastern Projects Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2018 One Man Show, Castelli Gallery, Culver City Los Angeles CA
2017 Americus Taco, Eastern Projects Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2015 Como Fregas/What Now, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica CA
2008 “Tales from Oceana,” Craig Krull Gallery, Bergamont Station, Santa Monica, CA
2008 “Muertadores, Downtown Center for the Arts Gallery, Oxnard, CA.
2004 “Recent Pastels,” Patricia Correa Gallery, Bergamont Station, Santa Monica, CA
2000 “John Valadez at Magulandia,” Pomona, CA
1997 “Pocho Crudo,” Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1994 “New Pastels,” Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1990 “New Vision and Ventures in Latino Art,” Rancho Santiago College, Santa Ana, CA
1989 “Lizardi/Harp Gallery, Pasadena, CA
1983 “Early Recent Works,” New Directions Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Works on Paper,” Simard Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Gallery Group Exhibitions
2019 Fashion Space Gallery, London College of Fashion, London England
2018 Rodriguez/Valadez in Vernon, Two Person Exhibit at East 26 Projects/Fine Art Solutions, Vernon CA
2017 LA/LA/LA in Conjunction with PST, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica Ca
2017 Looking Back 10 Years of Photography From Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica Ca
2017 The HIGH Art of Riding LOW, Petersen Automotive Museum Los Angeles Ca
2016 Selections from the Collection Joe Diaz, Middle Tennessee State University, Nashville Murfreesboro, Teneessee
2013 ARTIFEX, Group Exhibition, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Culver City Ca.
2013 Annual MOPLA: Month Of Photography, Group Exhibition, Robert Berman Gallery
2011 ROUND TRIP:Eight East Los Angeles Collage Alumni Artists, Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles Ca.
2007 “Pintores de Azlan,” La Casa Encendida de Obra Social Caja Madrid, Spain.
2001 “La Luz: Contemporary Latino Art in the United States” National Hispanic Cultural Center of New Mexico
2000 “Capital Art: A Group Show,” Track 16, Santa Monica, CA (catalogue)
“Chicanos en Mictlan, Dia del los Muertos en California,” San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
1997 “Second International Salon de Estandartes,” Tijuana Cultural Center, B.C., Mexico
1995-97 “Distant Relations: A Dialogue Among Chicano, Irish, and Mexican Artists,”
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England, Cambden Arts Center London, England (catalogue)
1993 “The Chicano Aesthetic: 4 Artists-A Dialogue,” George State University, Atlanta, GA
“L.A. Stories: Group Invitational,” Jack Ruthbert Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
“The Elegant, Irreverent, and Obsessive: Drawing in Southern California,”
Main Art Gallery at California State University, Fullerton, CA (catalogue)
1990-93 “Chicano Art/Resistance and Affirmation (CARA), 1965-85,” Wright Art Gallery
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
1990 “Aqui y Alla: Mexico City and Los Angeles Chicano Artists,” Los Angeles
Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
1989-90 “Le Demon de Agnes: Chicano Art in Europe,” Nantes and Marseille, Frances,
Berlin, Germany, Antwerp, Belgium, Stockholm, Sweden (catalogue)
1986 “Only L.A. Contemporary Variations,” Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA(catalogue)
“Made in Aztlan: Group exhibition celebrating 15 years at the Centro Cultural de la Raza,” San Diego, CA
“Symbolic Realities: John Valadez and David Baze,” California State University, Dominguez Hills, CA (catalogue)
“Primer Espacio de Identidad Cultural,” El Barrio Centro Cultural, Tijuan, B.C., Mexico
1979 “L.A. Parks and Wrecks: Reflections of Urban Life-Almaraz, Valadez, and Woods,” Otis/Parson School of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Press Publications
2020 Elizabeth Ferrer, Latinx Photography in the United States, A Visual History
2017 Karen Mary Davalos. Chicana/o Remix, Art and Errata since the Sixties
2014 Cynthia Marie Canejo Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Asheville, Chicano Art or Art by a Chicano?
2012 Christopher Knight. John Valadez’s artist gets deserved attention at MCASD, Los Angeles Times art review. August 15, 2012
2008 Benavides, Max. “Troubled Waters,” Cuidad Los Angeles Magazine, p. 30
2000 Botey, Mariana. “El Trabajo de John Valadez,” Pub Magazine, anecdotas pop del Mejor Uranio del Munco. pp.12-13.
1999 Gonzalez, Rita. “Post Chicano.” Poliester Mag. Spring/Summer.pp. 40, 42-43.
1998 Gasper de Alba, Alicia. “Chicano Art: Inside/Outside.” The master’s House. pp. 71-72, 133.
Dustin Wall Moore, Nancy. “California Art.” 450 yrs. of Painting and other Media. pp. 473-551.
Smithsonian Institute Archives of American Art. Oral History Program. Henry
Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, CA
1996 National Museum of American Art, Latino Art, and Culture. “Latino Vices” video.
1994 Lucie/Smith, Edward. “Race, Sex, and Gender in Contemporary Art.” Artbook International. p. 69.
1993 Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States. Arte Publico Press University of Houston. pp. 196, 98, 210.
1992 Benavidez, Max. “The Schizo-Ethnic View.” L.A. Times Calendar Section. Nov. 29. pp. 6, 80.
1991 Kandel, Susan. “L.A. in Review.” Arts Magazine. Dec. pp. 89-91.
1990 Snow, Shauna. “New Visions: Positive Images through Latino Art.” L.A. Times.