Recent
Sept 10, 2022 – Feb 19, 2023
Solo Exhibition
Judith F. Baca: World Wall
The Geffen Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Selected Solo Exhibitions
May 31 – September 4, 2022
Judy Baca: Hitting the Wall, Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA.
July 2021 – March 2022
Judy Baca: Memorias de Nuestra Tierra, A Retrospective, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA. Co-curated by Alessandra Moctezuma and MOLAA Chief Curator Gabriela Urtiaga.
October 14 – December 16, 2017
The Great Wall of Los Angeles: Judith F. Baca’s Experimentations in Collaboration and Concrete, CSUN Art Galleries, Northridge, CA. As part of the Getty Initiative, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA at the California State University Northridge. Curated by Mario Ontiveros.
February – May 2012
Judith F. Baca: The Great Wall Restored, Latino/Chicano Heritage Room, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA. Curated by Reina Prado.
January – March 2011
The Works of Judy Baca, Excavating Land and Memory Through Public Art, Richmond Art Center, Richmond CA.
October – November 2010
The Works of Judy Baca, Excavating Land and Memory Through Public Art, University Art Gallery, Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan.
June 2009 – September 2010
State Senate 9th Annual Contemporary CA Art Collection, California State Capitol, Sacramento, CA. Selected by CA Senator Jenny Oropeza as distinguished artist.
October 15 – November 12, 2009
Public Art, Private Works, San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego, CA.
May 13 – June 17, 2006
Judy Baca: On and Off the Wall, Patricia Correia Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA.
September – December 2005
Geography of Memory: Selected Works by Judith F. Baca, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA.
August – October 2001
Works of Judy Baca, Santa Barbara County Arts Commission, CA.
April 2000
Dedication La Memoria de Nuestra Tierra: Colorado, Cultural Perspectives Project, Denver International Airport, Denver, Colorado.
February 4-28, 2000
Drawing the Inner Circle: Preliminary Sketches for the World Wall, Highways Gallery 2, Santa Monica, CA.
Feb. 19-May 5, 2000
Arte Intimo: Paintings and Drawings by Judy Baca, Social and Public Art Resource Center, Venice, CA.
April 1999
The works of Judith F. Baca, Arte Americas, Fresno, CA.
October 1998
The World Wall: A Vision of the Future Without Fear, William King Regional Art Center, Abingdon, Virginia, Appalachia.
April 1998
The World Wall: A Vision of the Future Without Fear, California State University Monterey Bay, Monterey, CA.
December 1996
Dedication La Memoria de Nuestra Tierra, University of Southern California, Latino Arts Committee, Los Angeles, CA.
November 1996
Ofrenda to the Domestic Worker, Dia de Los Muertos celebration. 1995 Chancellor’s residence, Westwood. Installation of Raspados Mojados and Pancho Trinity works by Judith Baca, University of California, Los Angeles, CA.
September 1995
Judith F. Baca, Hilltop Gallery , Nogales, Arizona.
September 1995
Excerpts from Judith F. Baca: Sites and Insights, 1974-1992, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas.
February 1994
A World without Borders: The Work of Judith F. Baca, 20 Year Retrospective, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA.
March 1993
Judith F. Baca: Sites and Insights, 1974-1992, 20 Year Retrospective, Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA.
April 1992
World Wall: A Vision of the Future Without Fear, Santa Barbara Sunken Gardens, Santa Barbara, CA. Supported by Santa Barbara County Arts Commission.
February 1992
Judith F. Baca: Sites and Insights, 1974-1992, 20-Year Retrospective, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Tempe, Arizona.
July – September 1991
The Great Wall to the ‘World Wall: From the Neighborhood to the Global’, Experimental Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
April 1991
World Wall: A Vision of the Future Without Fear, Plaza de La Raza, Los Angeles, CA. La Opinion Promotional Insert for Exhibition.
1990
World Wall: A Vision of the Future Without Fear, Gorky Park, Moscow, USSR. Sponsored by the sons and daughters of Enemies of the State.
1990
World Wall: A Vision of the Future Without Fear, Joensuu, Finland. Sponsored by Joensuu Song Festival: A Meeting of the Worlds.
1989
World Wall: A Vision of the Future Without Fear, Social and Public Art Resource Center, Venice, CA.
1985
One Woman Show All School Gallery, Sepulveda Jr. High School, Los Angeles, CA.
1985
Wall Approaches, University Art Gallery, Riverside, CA.
1984
The Great Wall of Los Angeles: Anatomy of a Mural, Social and Public Art Resource Center, Venice, CA.
1980-1981
The Great Wall of Los Angeles, Matrix Gallery, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, Hartford, Connecticut.
Selected Group Exhibitions
March – June 2020
Building Bridges in Time of Wall: Chicano/Mexican Art from Los Angeles to Mexico, AltaMed’s Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT), Tijuana, Baja California.
2018 – 2020
Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A., The Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Ohio (January – April, 2020); Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts (September 6 – December 9, 2019); Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX (April 4, 2019); Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas (January 11 – March 16, 2019); Denver, Colorado (November – Dec 2, 2018); Hunter College Art Galleries, New York (June 22nd – August 19, 2018); ONE Gallery, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, West Hollywood, and the Pacific Design Center, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (September 9 – December 31, 2017), as part of Getty Initiative, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. Curated by C. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz. Exhibition tour organized by Independent Curators International (ICI).
2019-2020
Art After Stonewall: Sexual Identity and Politics 1969-89 in the United States, Grey Art Gallery, New York University and Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, NYC (April 19-July 21, 2019); The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL (September 14, 2019-January 6, 2020); Columbus Museum of Art, New Haven, CT (March 6-May 31, 2020).
September 10 – December 7, 2019
Queer Forms, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, MN.
2018 – 2019
The US-Mexico Border: Place, Imagination, and Possibility, Maisons Folies Wazemmes, Lille, France (April 27 – July 28, 2019); 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, New Mexico (January 27 – April 7, 2018); Craft & Folk Art Museum (CAFAM), Los Angeles, CA (September 10, 2017 – January 7, 2018).
March 2019
Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC.
March 8 – August 4, 2019
Qué Chola, National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
2018 – 2019
Building Bridges in Time of Wall: Chicano/Mexican Art from Los Angeles to Mexico (Construyendo puentes en epoca de muros: Arte Chicano/Mexicano de Los Angeles a Mexico), Museo de las Artes de la Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico (December 2019 – March 2020); Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños (MUPO), Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico (August – November 2019); Museo Siete Regiones, Acapulco, Mexico (July 2019); Centro de las Artes, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico (March 28 – June 3, 2019); Centro Cultural Clavijero in Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico (November 28, 2018 – March 10, 2019); Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Ciudad Mexico (September 21 – November 25, 2018). AltaMed’s touring exhibition.
January 26 – March 21, 2019
Valley Girl Redefined, Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, CA.
January 17‒May 5, 2019
Estampas Chicanas, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX.
October 2, 2018 ‒ January 13, 2019
Pop América, 1965–1975, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX.
September 2018 – January 2019
The History of California in La Reina de Los Ángeles, Sturt Haaga Gallery, Descanso Gardens, La Cañada Flintridge, CA.
August 25, 2018 – January 27, 2019
INK, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA.
September 15 – November 4, 2018
The 25th Anniversary of De Colores Art Show: Santuary/Santuario, Santa Paula Art Museum, Santa Paula, CA.
August 21 – September 29, 2018
Entre Tinta y Lucha, 45 Years of Self Help Graphics & Art, Self Help Graphics, CSULA Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2017
Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985, Pinacoteca, Sao Paulo, Brazil (August 25 – November 24, 2018); Brooklyn Museum, New York (April 13 – July 22, 2018); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (September 15, 2017 to January 1, 2018). As part of Getty Initiative, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.
August 2 – September 1, 2018
Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists of the United States, A.I.R. Gallery, New York. Curated by Ana Mendieta in the 80s.
February 9 – May 5, 2018
People of the Earth: Life and Culture of the Tongva, Santa Monica History Museum, Santa Monica, CA.
November 11 – December 30, 2017
Ghetto Gloss | The Chicana Avant-Garde, 1980-2010, Bermudez Projects space, Cypress Park, Los Angeles, CA. Participating Galleries Program of the Getty Initiative, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA and in partnership with the AltaMed Art Collection.
October 15, 2016 – February 25, 2017
Tastemakers & Earthshakers: Notes from L.A. Youth Culture, 1943-2016, Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
October 14 – December 16, 2017
The Great Wall of Los Angeles: Judith F. Baca’s Experimentations in Collaboration and Concrete, CSUN Art Galleries, Northridge, CA. Curated by Mario Ontiveros. As part of Getty Initiative, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.
September 15, 2017
Ayer y Todavia, Museum of Ventura County, Ventura, CA.
March 2017
LA Starts Here! Mexican and Mexican American history in Los Angeles, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, Los Angeles, CA. Permanent installation.
October 15, 2016 – February 25, 2017
Tastemakers & Earthshakers: Notes from L.A. Youth Culture, 1943-2016, Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
May 10, 2015 – August 2, 2015
Drawing in LA: The 1960s and 1970s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
April 15 – May 29, 2015
Left Coast: California Political Art, The James Gallery, Center for the Humanities, CUNY, New York.
February 26 – March 27, 2015
Women In Art ~ Herstories Exhibition, LH Horton Jr Gallery, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA.
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