Celia Herrera Rodriguez, Untitled
Celia Herrera Rodriguez
1952-
Xicana/O'dami
Date
c.1990
Medium Specific
Watercolor on paper
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
30 x 23 in. (76.2 x 58.4 cm)
Accession Number
2006.20.18.07
Credit
Gift of the Artist
Biography
Celia Herrera Rodríguez (Xicana/O’dami) is a painter, performance and installation artist whose work reflects a full generation of dialogue with Chicano, Native American, Pre-Columbian, and Mexican thought.
Originally from Sacramento, Herrera received her B.A. in Art & Ethnic Studies from CSU-Sacramento and a M.F.A. in Painting from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In 1987, she went on to study Art History, Theory and Criticism at the Art Institute of Chicago. In her five-year tenure in Chicago, she exhibited extensively and became involved in installation and performance art. In the mid-1990s she returned to California, where she made Oakland her home. She is a Senior Adjunct Professor in Diversity Studies at California College of the Arts, where she has taught Chicana/o and Mexican Modernist Art since 2005. She also teaches MeXicana/o Art History and Practice in the Chicano Studies Program at UC-Berkeley, since 2000. She has held appointments at Stanford University, UC Santa Cruz, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
https://celiahrodriguez.com/bio/
Originally from Sacramento, Herrera received her B.A. in Art & Ethnic Studies from CSU-Sacramento and a M.F.A. in Painting from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In 1987, she went on to study Art History, Theory and Criticism at the Art Institute of Chicago. In her five-year tenure in Chicago, she exhibited extensively and became involved in installation and performance art. In the mid-1990s she returned to California, where she made Oakland her home. She is a Senior Adjunct Professor in Diversity Studies at California College of the Arts, where she has taught Chicana/o and Mexican Modernist Art since 2005. She also teaches MeXicana/o Art History and Practice in the Chicano Studies Program at UC-Berkeley, since 2000. She has held appointments at Stanford University, UC Santa Cruz, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
https://celiahrodriguez.com/bio/
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