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Patssi Valdez Born Los Angeles, CA BFA Otis Art Institute, LA, CA Parsons School of Design, New York Museum Solo Exhibitions 1999    A Precarious Comfort, The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA; Laguna Art Museum, CA (Touring Exhibition) 1995    Patssi Valdez: A Room of One’s Own, San Jose Museum of Art, CA Museum Group Exhibitions 2003    A Not So Still Life, San Jose Museum of Art, CA 2001    Arte Latino: Treasures from the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC (traveling exhibition: Palm Springs Desert Museum, CA):                      Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge, San Antonio Museum of Art, TX (traveling exhibition: Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, NM; Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, IL;             El Paso Museum of Art, TX; de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA 2000    Maiden America, Laguna Art Museum, CA 1998    Day of the Dead Exhibition, Palm Springs Desert Museum, CA             Ceremony of Spirit: Nature and Memory in Contemporary Latino Art, The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA (traveling exhibition: Laguna Art Museum, CA; Boise Art Museum, ID; Fresno Art Museum, CA; Studio Museum of Harlem, NY)             Made in California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA 1995    Across the Street: Self-Help Graphics and Chicano Art in Los Angeles, Laguna Art Museum, CA (Traveling exhibition: Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA)             The Mystical in Art, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA   1990    Chicano Art: Resistance & Affirmation, 1965 – 1985, Wight Art Gallery, UC Los Angeles, CA (traveling exhibition: Denver Art Museum, CO; Albuquerque Art Museum, NM; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; El Paso Museum of Art, TX; Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY; San Antonio Museum of Art, TX)   1988    Art of the Other Mexico: Sources and Meaning, Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, IL (traveling exhibition: Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico; Museo del Barrio, NY; San Antonio Museum of Art, TX; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA)             Viva La Muerte Bella, The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA             Raices Antiquas, Visiones Nuevas/Ancient Roots, New Visions, Museum of             Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL   Solo Exhibitions
 
2007    Patssi Valdez, Plaza Art Gallery, Oxnard CA
2006    Turn The Tables, Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica CA
2005    Los Cuadros de Patssi Valdez, Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica CA
2004    New Work: Patssi Valdez, Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica CA
2003    En Casa, Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica CA
2002    Hecho a Mano, Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica CA
2001    Pictures of Home, Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2000    Patssi Valdez, Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1999    The Living Room, Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1998    Patssi Valdez:, Private Landscapes 1988-1998, UC, Northridge Art Gallery, CA
1996    Cinco de Mayo Exhibition, Mexican Cultural Institute Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993    Rooms de la Vida, Julie Rico Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
           The Painted World of Patssi Valdez, Boat House Gallery, Plaza de la Raza,
            Los Angeles, CA
            Recent Works, Mars Artspace, Phoenix, AZ
1992    Distant Memories, Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987    Portraits, Galeria Posada, Sacramento, CA
 
Group Exhibitions               
2007    Pintores de Aztlan, La Casa Encendida, Madrid Spain
            Multiple Vantage Points, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los
            Angeles, Ca
2001    The Art of Illusion, Millard Sheets Gallery, Pomona, CA
2000    La Luz: Contemporary Latino Art in the United States, National Hispanic Cultural
            Center, Albuquerque, NM
            12 Divas, Molly Barnes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
            Collaboration and Transformations, Lithographs from Hamilton Press, Montgomery
            Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
1996    The Mythic Present of Chagoya, Valdez, and Gronk, Fisher Gallery, University of
            Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
1995    Altars, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
            Coming Home, Vincent Price Gallery, East Los Angeles College, Monterey Park, CA
1994    Dia de los Muertos, Galería La Mano Magica, Oaxaca, Mexico
            Hielo Caliente, Alianza Francesa de Oaxaca, Mexico
1993    Visceral Images, New Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
            Sin Frontera, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, England
            LAX: The Los Angeles Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, CA
            Domestic Allegories, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
1989    Aqui y Alla, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, CA
            Les Demons des Anges, Halle du Centre de Recherche pour le Developpement
            Culturel, Nantes, France; (traveling exhibition: Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona,
            Spain; Kulterhuset, Stockholm, Sweden; Espace Lyonnais d’Art Contemporain, Lyon,
            France)
            L.A., L.A., Pico House Gallery, Olvera Street, Los Angeles, CA
            Asco Group Show, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, CA
Museum Collections Laguna Art Museum, CA Tucson Museum of Art, AZ Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA Latino Museum, Los Angeles, CA El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, IL National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian, Washington, DC National Hispanic Cultural Center of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC Selected Collections Latin Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles CA BCA Business Committee for the Arts, Award Founded by David Rockefeller,NY Sprint Corporation, Overland Park, Kansas Hispanic Research Center, Tucson, AZ Entravision Communications Corporation, Los Angeles, CA USC Acquisitions Program Permanent Collection, Los Angeles, CA Southern California Gas Company, Los Angeles, CA The Principal Financial Group, Des Moines, IA Plaza de La Raza, Center for the Arts, Los Angeles, CA SCN Enterprises/SI TV, Los Angeles, CA Galan Entertainment, Venice, CA Gunter Joetz, German Ambassador, Germany Cheech Marin, Malibu, CA Gerald Buck Collection, Laguna Hills, CA Art Matters, New York Gregory Nava, Ojai, CA Nicholas Cage, Los Angeles, CA Jimmy Smitts, Los Angeles, CA