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As one of the artists in the vanguard of the Chicano Art and Los Angeles Mural Movement of the 1960's and 70's, Judithe Hernaˇndez is regarded as one of the important visual artists of the period. She was the only female member of the seminal and influential Los Angeles artist collective 'Los Four' which also included the late well-known California painter, Carlos Almaraz. 'It is safe to say that this grouping of artists, known collectively as Los Four, 'legitimized' Chicano art in the Anglo American art world and......forged ahead with a school of art that would come to be known as Chicano Art. Today, Frank Romero, Carlos Almaraz, Gilbert Lujan, Judithe Hernandez, and John Valadez represent a group of Chicano artists that have obtained international respect and are admired for producing original and exceptional bodies of work throughout their artistic careers. Los Four opened the commercial door to all in the Chicano art world.' (Reflection on the Chicano Art Movimiento: A Primer by Armando Vazquez)
She has exhibited extensively in the United States, Europe, and Mexico, including the ground-breaking first exhibition of contemporary Chicano Art in Europe: Le Demon des Anges. Her public works include the Los Angeles Bicentennial Mural (1981), 'Recuredos de Ayer, Suenos de Manana', which overlooked the downtown area of Los Angeles for nearly 20 years from its site within the El Pueblo State Historical Park. In contrast to her mural work, her studio work has always been pastel on paper. The lush color and haunting imagery of the work prompted one art critic to compare it to two legendary artists, saying it was a unique and beautiful 'blend of Rivera and Rousseau'.
Judithe maintains a studio in Chicago and a very active exhibition schedule. Currently she is working toward a major solo exhibition at the National Museum of Mexican Art (Chicago) scheduled for the Spring of 2010.
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EDUCATION
BFA - Otis Art Institute (Otis College of Art and Design), Los Angeles
MFA - Otis Art Institute (Otis College of Art and Design), Los Angeles
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Cayman Gallery, New York
Solart Gallery, A Decade of a Woman's Work, San Diego, California
Casa de la Raza, Virgen Madre Mujer: Imagenes de la Mujer Chicana. Santa Barbara, California
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Mi Arte, Mi Raza
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The State of California Collection. Crocker Gallery Sacramento, California
The National Museum of Mexican Art
Otis College of Art and Design Collection. Los Angeles, California
The Latino Museum of History, Art and Culture. Los Angeles
The Max Factor Collection. Los Angeles, California
Radio Bilingual. Fresno, California
The United Farm Workers Union. La Paz, California
The Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, California
The University of California at Santa Barbara
HONORS / AWARDS
Otis College of Art and Design. Designated Outstanding Alumni, 2007
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Artists. Oral biography added to archives.
Le Demon des Anges. First major European exhibition of Mexican-American art. One of sixteen Mexican-American artists selected. Jointly sponsored by the Centre de Recherche por le Developpment Culturel (France) and El Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Santa Monica, Spain
University of California at Berkeley. Honored as one of California's 500 Hispanic Women Leaders
Los Angeles Bicentennial Mural Commission. Commissioned to paint the official mural commemorating the founding of the City of Los Angeles in 1781 in El Pueblo State Historical Park.
Commission Femenil Mexicana Nacional. Honored for Achievement in the Fine Arts.
State of California Collection Crocker Gallery, Sacramento, California. Work selected for the permanent collection.
PUBLIC ART
Recuerdos de Ayer....Suenos de Manana, City of Los Angeles Bicentennial Mural El Pueblo State Historical Park.
Suenos Oaxaquenos, Mural on canvas, Craft and Folk Art Museum Los Angeles, California
Homenaje a Las Chicanas de Aztlan. Assisted by Carlos Almaraz. Ramona Gardens Housing Project East Los Angeles, California
La Adelita. Assisted to Carlos Almaraz. Ramona Gardens Housing Project East Los Angeles, California
The Great Wall of Los Angeles Mural, Los Angeles Flood Control Channel Van Nuys, California
El Mundo del Barrio Sotel, Stoner Recreation Center Los Angeles, California
United Farmer Workers Mura. Co-designer. Second Annual Constitutional Convention, UFW Headquarters La Paz, California
Ave 45 Mural. Painted with Frank Romero, Carlos Almaraz, & Leo Limon. Highland Park, California
El Teatro de la Vida, Century Playhouse Theater. Funded through the National Endowment for the Arts. Los Angeles, California
Placa Mural, Portable mural for KCET-PBS. Painted with Carlos Almaraz, Frank Romero, Beto de la Rocha, & Gilbert Lujan, Los Angeles, California
The World: Past and Future, First Unitarian Church. Los Angeles, California
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Feminist Ecology: Women and the Earth (Juried). Koehnline Museum, Chicago, IL
11th Annual Chicago Art Open (Juried). Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL
La Vida Sin Fin - Day of the Exibihition 2008, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL
2008 June Group Show. Ogilvie/Pertl Gallery, River East Art Center, Chicago, IL
Reforming US: Immigration Through Art (National juried exhibition). Crown Center Gallery, Loyola University Chicago
Chicago ARTEahora! Ogilvie/Pertl Gallery, River East Art Center, Chicago, IL
Chupacabras! Artists Reinterpret the Myth! National Mexican Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
Mexican Otis. Otis. College of Art Design, Los Angeles, California.
Day of the Dead 2003. National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, Illinois
California Connections. Gallery 1078, Chino, California
Mystical Art. Carnegie Museum of Art, Oxnard, California
Los 4: Twenty Years Later. Robert Berman Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Les Demon des Anges. European touring exhibition co-sponsored by Le Centre de Recherche pour le Developpment Culturel, France and El Centro de Arte Contporaneo de Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain. Exhibition cites included France (Paris Nante), Spain (Barcelona), Sweden (Stockholm), Belgium (Bussels), and The Netherlands (Amsterdam)
Imagination (Inaugural Exhibition). Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
The Aesthetics of Graffiti. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
The Murals of Aztlan. Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, California
Fantasy, the Dark and Light Side. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Arte Chicano. Galeria Pentagano, Mexico City
Faculty Show. California State Polytechnic University. Pomona, California
Califas on Paper. Fondo del Sol, Washington, D.C.
Chicanindia. Galeria Capistrano, Capistrano, California
The Murals of Aztlan, the Street Painters of East Los. University of Houston, Houston, Texas
In Search of Four Women...Four Cultures. California Institute of Technology, Baxter Gallery, Pasadena, California
Arte Picante. University of California at San Diego, Mandeville Gallery, La Jolla, California
Las Chicanas. Mechicano Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Las Chicanas: Venas de la Mujer. The Women's Building, Los Angeles, California
Los Four por el Pueblo. California State University at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Los Four Banners and Paper. Mount San Antonio College, Walnut Grove, California
Los Four en Sacra. University of California at Sacramento, Sacramento, California
Los Four en Longo. Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
Los Four. Self-Help Graphics, East Los Angeles, California
Los 4. University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
Los Four. Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, California
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
AZTLAN: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Fall 2008. UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. Cover art and essay.
Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change. Patrick G. Coy, Elsevier Science and Technology Books, 2007
Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia. Vicky Ruiz, Virginia Sanchez Korrol, Indiana University Press, 2006
Art, Women, California 1950-2000: Parallels and Intersections. Diana Burgess Fuller, Daniela Salvioni, University of California Press, 2002
The Readers Companion to U.S. Women's History. Wilma Mankiller, Hougton Mifflin Books, 1999
Chicano Art: Inside, Outside the Master's House: Cultural Politics and the CARA Exhibition. Alicia Gaspar De Alba, University of Texas Press, 1998
Dimensions of the Americas: Art and Social Change in Latin America and the United States. S. Goldman, University of Chicago Press, 1995
Subject of the nationally syndicated PBS documentary, the Murals of Aztlan. A documentary film surrounding the painting of the murals for the Craft and Folk Art Museum exhibition, the 'Murals of Aztlan', and artists who created them, 1982
The Big Picture: The Murals of Los Angeles. Stanley Young and Melba Levick, A New York Graphic Society Book, Little, Brown and Company (Inc.), 1988
Wall Art. Stefan and Betty Merken, Running Press, 1988
Mur, Mur. Award winning documentary film of Chicano muralists by french director Agnes Varda.
American Women Artists. Charlotte Rubinstein, Avon Publications, 1982
Subject of documentary on Hispanic professionals for McMillan Publications. Biographical film study.
Subject of documentary for National German Television on Chicano muralists. Film documentary on East Los Angeles mural painters
Floricanto en Aztlan. Alurista, Chicano Studies Center Creative Series, University of California at Los Angeles. Illustrator
Aztlan Journal of Chicano Studies, University of California at Los Angeles. The first illustrator of the journal (1970-1975) and designer of the original journal logo.
