PATSSI VALDEZ

BORN
Los Angeles, California

EDUCATION
A.A. East Los Angeles College, East L.A., CA
B.F.A. Otis/Parsons School of art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

AWARDS
2002 Her Story is Our Story: KCET Celebrating Women of our Community Awards
2001 Flintridge Fellowship
1999 Durfee Foundation
1998 Paul Getty Fellowship
1997 City of Los Angeles Cultural Grant Program, Individual Artist Fellow
1994 National Endowment for the Arts, U.S./Mexico Artist-in-Residence
1990 Art Matters Grant
1989 California Art Council Recipient for artist residency at Self - Help Graphics,
East Los Angeles, CA
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Painting
Medal of Recognition, City of Nantes, France
1988 Brody Arts Fellowship in Visual Arts

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
National Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA
Tucson Museum of Art Tucson, AZ
Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, IL
Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA

MUSEUM SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1999 "A Precarious Comfort", The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
1995 "Patssi Valdez: A Room of One's Own", San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
1993 "Viva La Muerte Bella", The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA
1992 "LAX: The Los Angeles Exhibition", Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, CA
1991 "Domestic Allegories", Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
1989 "Aqui y Alla", Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Les Demon de Anges", Halle du Centre de Recherche pour le Developpement Culturel,Nantes, France; Centre d' Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain, Kulterhuset, Stockholm, Sweden; Espace Lyonnais d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France (touring exhibition, 1989-90)

MUSEUM GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2001 "Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge": San Antonio Museum of Art, TX; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C; National Hispanic Cultural Center. Curated by Cheech Marin. (touring exhibition 2001-06)
2000 "Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum": El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL; The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe,NM and Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA. (touring exhibition 2000-2003)
2000 "Made in California", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
1998 "Day of the Dead Celebration", Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
1996 "Ceremony of Spirit: Nature and Memory in Contemporary Latino Art", Studio Museum,
"Maiden America", Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA
1995 "Across the Street: Self Help Graphics and Chicano Art in Los Angeles", Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA: Armand Hammer Museum of Art, L.A., CA (touring exhibition 1995 - present)
1994 "Calaveras Para Todos", The Mexican Fine Arts Museum, Oxnard, Ca
"The Mystical in Art", Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
1993 "Art of the Other Mexico: Sources and Meaning", Museum of Modern Art, CA; Museo del Barrio, NYC, NY; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio TX; Yerbabuena Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA (touring exhibition 1993-95)
1990 "Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation", 1965 - 1985, Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA; Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ; National Museum of American art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso,TX; Bronx Museum of the Arts, NYC, NY; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX; Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL (touring exhibition 1990 -1993)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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 "Patssi Valdez: The Living Room", Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1998 "Private Landscapes", Cal State Northridge, Northridge, Ca
1996 "Cinco de Mayo Exhibition", Mexican Cultural Institute Gallery, L.A., 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, L.A., CA
"Recent Works", Mars Artspace, Phoenix, AZ
1992 "Distant Memories", Daniel Saxon Gallery, L.A., CA
1987 "Portraits", Gallery Posada, Sacramento, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2002 "First Run", Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2000 "12 Divas", Molly Barnes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1998 "Patssi Valdez", California State University Northridge
1997 "Collaboration and Transformation", 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, L.A,, CA
1995 "Altars", Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
"Coming Home", Vincent Price Gallery, E.L.A College, Monterey Park, CA
1994 "Dia de los Muertos", Galeria La Mano Magica, Oaxaca, Mexico
"Hielo Caliente", Alianza Francesca de Oaxaca, Mexico
1993 "Sin Frontera", Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, England
"Visceral Images", New Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
USC Permanent Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Plaza de la Raza, Center for the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Gunter Joetze, German Ambassador, Berlin, Germany
Galan Entertainment, Venice, CA
Nicholas Cage, Los Angeles, CA
Jimmy Smits, Los Angeles, CA
Cheech Marin, Los Angeles, CA
Gregory Nava, Ojai, CA
Southern California Gas Company, Los Angeles, CA
The Principal Financial Group, Des Moines, Iowa

PUBLICATIONS
1999 "A Painter's Great Escape," Los Angeles Times, Calendar, Sunday, March 7.
"Latinas of the Year 1999", Latina Magazine, September, p.72
1998 Wilson, William. "Precious Child Shows an Artist Maturing," Los Angeles times, Calendar Munoz, Lorenza."Patssi Valdez at the Mexican Museum "Artweek, March 1999
Rodriguez, Juan. "A Painter's Great Escape", LA Times, March 1999
1997 "Beyond ASCO" Latina Magazine, cultura/culture
1996 Frank, Peter. Art Pick of the Week, LA Weekly February 9 - 15, Calendar.
1995 Wilson, William. Review, "Trio of California Artists Mix it up in the Mythic Present,"
Los Angeles Times, December 9.
Torrez, Anthony. "Patssi Valdez at the San Jose Museum of Art," Artweek,
October, vol.26,no.10.
Sherman, Ann Elliot. "Dream Spaces; The Hallucinatory Rooms of Patssi Valdez," Metro Art (San Jose, CA), August 17-23,vol.2,no.25
Erkanat, Judy Pasquel. "Burning colors; Dynamic Interpretations Dominate L.A. Artist's Exhibit," El Observadador, August 16-22.
1993 Turner, Nancy Kay. Review, Artscene, October.
1992 Wiggins, Susan. Review Shorts "Patssi Valdez," Artweek, March 26, p.15.
Kapitanoff, Nancy. Faces, "Artist Patssi Valdez Final Answers on a Painted Canvas,"
Los Angeles Times, March 21, sec.F, P.2
Hammond, Pamela. Review, ART News '91. No. 6, Summer, p.140.
Rosas, Alejandro. "La Mirada Interior de Patssi Valdez," La Opinion, May 29.
Kandel, Susan. "Valdez' Morbid Vision of Domesticity," Los Angeles Times, March 20, sec. F, p.18.
1991 Kandel, Susan. "L.A. in Review," Arts Magazine, December, p.91, p.94.
Pagel, David. "A Look at Latino Diversity," Los Angeles Times, October 28, sec.F, p.9.
1990 Nieto, Margarita. "Patssi Valdez," Latin American Art, (Scottsdale, AZ), vol. 2, no.3, Summer, p.9.
Benavidez, Max. "Latin L.A. - Beyond the Barrio," L.A. Style, March, p.136, p. 189
1986 Drohojowska, Hunter. "Patssi Valdez is Making it in Art," Los Angeles Herald Examiner, April 20.

FILM/TELEVISION AND THEATER

2001 Cultural Consultant for "American Family", El Norte Production series for PBS
2000 Visual Consultant for "American Family", El Norte Production pilot
Visual Consultant for "Viva Vegas", Llamame Loco Productions sitcom for Telemundo
1998 Visual Consultant for "Solo en America", Llamame Loco Productions sitcom for Telemundo
Production Designer for the independent feature film "Luminarias"
1996 Set Designer for "Luminarias" at the Los Angeles Theater Center
1995 Head Designer for new headquarters of Galan Productions at FOX
Art Consultant to the Design team of the feature film "Mi Familia" a Francis Ford Coppola Film Production
Set Designer for "Diva L.A." at the Mark Taper Forum
Set Designer for "Spirits Rising" at the John Anson Ford Amphitheater
1994 Head Costume Designer for theatrical production "Carpa Clash" at the Mark Taper