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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