Salomón Huerta is a painter based in Los Angeles, California. Huerta was born in Tijuana, Mexico, and grew up in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of 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.

Biography

Salomón Huerta was born in the La Colonia Libertad neighborhood in Tijuana, Mexico, in 1965, and moved to California at age four. She received her BFA from ArtCenter College of Design, in Pasadena, California, in 1991, and an MFA from University of California, Los Angeles, California, in 1998.

Work

Salomon Huerta's work has been reviewed and appeared in the news at BOMB Magazine (2023), Los Angeles Times, Art in America, January 2009, Art Limited, Jan/Feb 2009, and Encore Magazine (July 2010). Huerta has been featured in exhibitions and public programs in museums such as Austin Museum of Art, Her work was included in the Whitney Biennial, New York, in 2000. In 2024, her work was included in at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, among others.

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.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

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