Patssi Valdez , California B.F.A. Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

Museum Solo Exhibitions

1999 A Precarious Comfort, The Mexican Museum, , 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

2018 Bridges in Time of Walls: Chicano/Mexican Art from Los Angeles to Mexico City. Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. Traveling Exhibition through 2020. Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico. La Gran Galeria, Centro Cultural de Acapulco, Acapulco, Mexico; Museo de los Pintores, Oaxaca de Juarez, Mexico; Museo de las Artes de la Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico; Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico

2017 Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. Traveling Exhibition through 2020. MOCA Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA. The Hunter College Art Galleries New York, NY; The Gund Gallery at Kenyon College, Gambier, OH; Lawndale Art Center, , TX; Vicki Myhren Gallery, Denver, CO; Williams College of Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas, NV

2017 Judithe Hernández and Patssi Valdez: One Path Two Journeys. Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Millard Sheets Art Center, Pomona, CA.

2017 Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985. Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Pomona, CA. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA. Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY.

2015 Take 10: The Past Decade of Collecting by Cheech Marin, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, AZ 2014 ASCO and Friends: Exiled Portraits, Le Cartel Triangle France, Marseille Nuestra Historias Stories of Mexican Identity from the Permanent Collection, The National Museum of Mexican Art,, IL 2013 ASCO No Movie’s, (Touring Exhibition 2013-2014) Nottingham Contemporary, UK; De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands, CAPC Contemporary Arts Museum, Bordeaux

2011 ASCO: Elite of the Obscure A Retrospective, 1972-1987, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Ca, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA (traveling exhibition) Round Trip, Vincent Price Museum, East Los Angeles College, Monterey Park, CA State of Mind, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

2008 Los Angelenos / Chicano Painters of L.A. Selection from the Cheech Marin Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement, Los Angels County Museum of Art, CA Vexing: Female Voices From East L.A. Punk, Claremont Museum of Art, and CA

2006 Los Angeles 1955-1985 / The Birth of an Art Capital, Centre Pompidou, , France Latina's the Spirit of California, The CA Museum of History, Women and the Arts

2004 Illuminaciones: Days of the Dead Indigenous and Colonial Expressions, Oakland Museum of Art, CA

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, 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

2014 Somber Hues, Off Ramp Gallery, Pasadena, CA

2014 Picture Windows, SPACE Gallery, Pasadena, CA

2011 80’s Portraits, Thomas Paul Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

2007 Patssi Valdez, Plaza Gallery, Oxnard CA

2006 Patssi Valdez, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, 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

1993 The Painted World of Patssi Valdez, Boat House Gallery, Plaza de la Raza, Los Angeles, CA

1993 Recent Works, Mars Art-space, Phoenix, AZ

1992 Distant Memories, Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Group Exhibitions

2011 Civic Virtue, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery 1950 - 1980, Los Angeles, CA

2011 Small Works: Group Show, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2010 39 NOW, Den Contemporary Art, Pacific Design Center, Hollywood, CA

2009 Her Story, Napa Valley Museum, 55 Presidents Circle, Yountville, CA

2009 If I Didn’t Care, Richman Gallery, The Park School, , MD

2007 Pintores de Aztlan, La Casa Encendida, Madrid Spain

2007 Multiple Vantage Points, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, Ca

2007 Summer in the City, George Billis Gallery, Culver City, CA

2001 The Art of Illusion, Millard Sheets Gallery, Pomona, CA

2000 La Luz: Contemporary Latino Art in the , National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM

2000 12 Divas, Molly Barnes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2000 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

1994 Coming Home, Vincent Price Gallery, East Los Angeles College, Monterey Park, CA

1994 Dia de Los Muertos, Galería La Mano Magica, Oaxaca, Mexico

1994 Hielo Caliente, Alianza Francesa de Oaxaca, Mexico

1993 Visceral Images, New Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA

1993 Sin Frontera, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, England

1993 LAX: The Los Angeles Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, CA

1993 Domestic Allegories, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA

1989 Aqui y Alla, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, CA

1989 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)

1985 L.A., L.A., Pico House Gallery, Olvera Street, Los Angeles, CA

1985 Farewell to the Bridal District, ASCO Group Show, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA.

Museum Collections

Whitney Museum of American Art Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE Williams College Museum of Art, Boston, MA 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

Joel Wachs, Andy Warhol Foundation Director Castulo de La Rocha, AltaMed Art Collection 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 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 Smits, Los Angeles, CA.

Awards and Honors

2011 Certificate of Appreciation, The Mayor of the City of Los Angeles Antonio R. Villaraigosa.

2011 Mujer Awards Artwork Contest, National Hispanic Leadership Institute, Los Angeles CA

2010 Latino Heritage Month Award, Sprit of Los Angeles, Honors outstanding individuals of Latino descent who have contributed to the advancement of Latinos in the United States and worldwide.

2005 Estrellas De Nuestra Cultura Mexican Cultural Institute Award, Certificate of Special Recognition of dedication and contribution to the arts and entertainment in Los Angeles and around the world.

2005 Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute's Latina of Excellence Award in Cultural Arts

2003 BCA Business Committee for the Arts Award, Founded by David Rockefeller, NY

2002 KCET Honor: Her Story is Our Story, Celebrating the Women of our Community Flintridge Fellowship, Pasadena, CA

2000 San Diego Latino Film Festival Tribute

1999 Durfee Foundation Grant, Los Angeles, CA Archives of American Art, Latino Initiative, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

1998 J Paul Getty Fellowship, Los Angeles, CA

1997 C.O.L.A. (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, New York, NY

1989 California Arts Council Artist-in-Residence

1989 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Painting, Washington, DC

1989 Medal of Recognition, Nantes, France

1988 Brody Arts Fellowship in Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA