EXHIBITIONS
S O L O E X H I B I T I O N S
Todavia Sueño / I Still Dream, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2025
Judithe Hernández | Beyond Myself, Somewhere, I Wait for My Arrival, 50 Year Retrospective 2024
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso TX 2025
The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture, Riverside CA, 2024
A Dream is the Shadow of Something Real, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA 2018
La Vida Sobre Papel, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL 2011
What Dreams May Come, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2010
Judithe Hernández: Works on Paper, Cayman Gallery, New York, NY, 1983
A Decade of a Woman's Work, Solart Gallery, San Diego, CA, 1980
Virgen, Madre, Mujer: Imágenes de la Mujer Chicana, Casa de la Raza, Santa Bárbara, CA, 1979
Mi Arte, Mi Raza, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (San Pedro), 1978
S E L E C T E D M U S E U M G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N S
The Body Imagined: Figurative Art in the Bank of America Collection, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT 2025
Five Decades of Chicane Muralism in Los Angeles 1975-2019, The institute of Fine Arts & Center for Humanities, New York University 2024
Calli: The Art of Xicanx Peoples, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland CA 2024
Arte Chicano: Hecho en Los Angeles, California Heritage Museum, Santa Monica CA 2024 Alma, Corazon, y Vida, Merced Gallery, University of California Merced, 2024
Undiminished: Heroines of California Art, Hilbert Museum of California Art, Chapman University, Orange CA 2024
A Dream is the Shadow of Something Real: Women in Art, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX 2023
Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of la Malinche and the Conquest of Mexico (Catalog)
Denver Museum of Art, CO, 2022, Albuquerque Museum, NM, 2022
San Antonio Museum of Art, TX, 2022 -2023
L.A. Memo: Chicana/o Art from 1972-1989, La Plaza de Cultura y Arte, Los Angeles CA, 2022
Cheech Collects (Inaugural Exhibition), The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture, Riverside Art Museum, 2022
War Within, War Without, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2021
Otros Lados, the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL 2020
Life Model: Charles White and His Students – Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019
Centennial: 100 Years of Otis College Alumni, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art & Design, 2019
Bridges in Time of Walls: Mexican/Chicano Art from Los Angeles to Mexico, 2019 –2020
Centro Cultural Clavijero, Morelia, Michoacán, Centro de las Artes, Monterrey, Museo de Siete Regiones, Acapulco, Museo de los
Pintores Oaxaqueños, Oaxaca, Museo de las Artes de la Universidad de Guadalajara, Jalisco
Bridges in Time of Walls: Mexican/Chicano Art from Los Angeles to Mexico – Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, 2018
SELF HELP GRAPHICS: A Selection of Prints,
Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland OR, 2019
West by Midwest: Geographies of Art and Kinship - Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL 2018
Becoming Los Angeles - Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 2018
OUR AMERICA: The Latino Presence in American Art:
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg in St. Petersburg, Florida, 2017
Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, Tennessee, 2017
Pacific Standard Time: Latin American and Latino Art in Los Angeles (PST LA/LA),
Judithe Hernández & Patssi Valdez: ONE PATH Two Journeys, Millard Sheets Gallery, 2017 (Catalog)
Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico 1915‒1985, Los Angeles County Museum of Art 2017. (Catalog)
Miradas: Ancient Roots in Contemporary Mexican Art, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV 2017
OUR AMERICA: The Latino Presence in American Art:
Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, 2016 Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, Delaware, 2016 Allentown Art Museum in Allentown, PA, 2016
MOLAA at 20: 1996-2016. The Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA 2016
OUR AMERICA: The Latino Presence in America:Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California, 2015
Utah Museum of Fine Arts in Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015
MIRADAS: Ancient Roots in Modern and Contemporary Mexican Art, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA 2015
La Muerte Niña - Dia de los Muertos, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL 2015
OUR AMERICA: The Latino Presence in America: The Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2014
The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, 2014
Miradas: Ancient Roots in Contemporary Mexican Art, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, 2014
Sinful Saints and Saintly Sinners, Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 2014
Miradas: Ancient Roots in Contemporary Mexican Art, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX 2014
OUR AMERICA: The Latino Presence in American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC (Catalog), 2013
Signature Works, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL 2013
Miradas: Ancient Roots in Contemporary Mexican Art, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, 2012
Transforming Public Art: Chicanos of the 1980’s, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, Los Angeles, CA, 2012
Inaugural Exhibition, América Tropical Interpretive Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2012
Miradas: Ancient Roots in Mexican Art, CityArtsCenter, Oklahoma, OK, 2012
Greetings from L.A.: Artists and Publics, 1950-1980, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA 2011
Round Trip: Eight East Los Angeles Collee Alumni Artists, Vincent Price Art Museum Art, Los Angeles, CA (Catalog), 2011
Member’s Choice, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX, 2011
Pacific Standard Time: L.A. Art 1945-1980 - Sandra de la Loza: Mural Remix, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2011
Lasting Legacies: A Tribute to the Chicana Art Movement, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, Los Angeles, CA, 2011
After the Gold Rush: Reflections & Postscripts on the National Chicano Moratorium, Vincent Price Art Museum, (Catalog) 2011
Pacific Standard Time: L.A. Art 1945-1980 - L.A. XICANO Mapping Another L.A. the Chicano Art Movement, Fowler useum (Catalog), 2011
Miradas: Ancient Roots in Mexican Art, Witte Museum, San Antonio, TX, 2011
Miradas: Ancient Roots in Mexican Art, Cummer Museum, Jacksonville, FL 2011
Indigenismo: Ancient Roots in Mexican Art, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, 2010
Siqueiros in Los Angeles: Censorship Defied, the Autry National Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2010
Translating Revolution: U.S. Artists Interpret the Mexican Muralists, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL, 2010
Miradas: Ancient Roots in Mexican Art, MUZEO, Anaheim, CA, 2010
Rastros y Cronicas: Women of Juarez, the National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL, 2009
Feminist Ecology: Women and the Earth, Koehnline Museum, Chicago, IL (Catalog), 2009
Judithe Hernández and Sergio Gomez: Through the Labyrinth, President’s Gallery, Chicago State University, 2009 Miradas
Mexican Art from the Bank of American Collection, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL, 2009
La Vida Sin Fin - Day of the Dead, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL, 2008
Chupacabras! Artists Reinvent the Myth, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL, 2008
Reflections of the Soul - Day of the Dead 2003, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL, 2003
The Mystical in Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, Oxnard, CA, 1994
Les Démon des Anges, Kulturerhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, (Catalog),
1990 Espace Lyonnais d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France, (Catalog), 1989,
Centro de Arte Contemporaño Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain (Catalog), 1989
Halle du Centre de Recherche pour le Developpement Culturel, Nantes, France, (Catalog), 1989
The Murals of Aztlan, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 1981
The Aesthetics of Graffiti, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Catalog), 1978
Los Four: Collage & Assemblage, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Shubert Theatre, Century City, Los Angeles, CA, 1975
Imagination, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, 1974
In Search of Aztlan, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, 1974
Fantasy, the Dark and Light Side, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1974
In Search of Aztlan, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA (Catalog), 1974
Los Four en Longo, Long Beach Museum of Art (Catalog), 1974
M U S E U M C O L L E C T I O N S
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL
The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture
La Plaza de Cultura y Artes, Los Angeles, CA
Oakland Museum of California
Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
U N I V E R S I T Y M U S E U M S & C O R P O R A T E C O L L E C T I O N S
AltaMed Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Bank of America Collection, New York, NY
Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin
Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles, CA
Otis Art Institute Collection. Los Angeles, CA
Radio Bilingüe Collection, Fresno, CA
UCI Museum/Institute for California Art, Irvine CA
University of California at Los Angeles
University of California at Santa Barbara
United Farm Workers Union, La Paz, CA
P U B L I C A R T C O M M I S S I O N S
La Reina Nueva de Los Angeles, LA PLAZA Village. El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical District, 2019
L.A. Sonata, EXPO Line Grand Terminus Station Santa Monica, Los Angeles County MTA, 2016
Sueños Oaxaqueños, Mural on canvas, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 1981
Ave 43 Mural (collective mural with Carlos Almaraz, Frank Romero, and Leo Limon), Highland Park, CA, 1977
Recuerdos de Ayer, Sueños de Mañana, Los Angeles Bicentennial Mural, El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument, 1981
Homenaje a Las Mujeres de Áztlan, Ramona Gardens Housing Project, Los Angeles, CA, 1977
Los Four Por El Pueblo (collective mural), California State University Los Angeles, 1977
"Mexican Rule", The Great Wall of Los Angeles Mural, Tujunga Wash Flood Control Channel, 1976
El Mundo del Barrio Sotel, Stoner Recreation Center, Los Angeles, CA, 1976 – Restored 1997, (Demolished 2002)
Second Annual Constitutional Convention Mural (joint project with C. Almaraz), United Farm Workers Union, La Paz, CA, 1975
United Farmer Workers Mural, Co-designer with Carlos Almaraz, 2nd Constitutional Convention, La Paz, CA, 1975
El Teatro de la Vida, Century Playhouse Theater, Los Angeles, CA, 1974 Los 4 Placa Mural, Portable mural for KCET-PBS. Los Angeles, CA, 1973
S E L E C T E D R E V I E W S / A R T I C L E S
Review: Los Angeles Times, Chief Art Critic Christopher Knight, “Chicana Feminist Judithe Hernández draws complex humanity at the Cheech,” The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, Feb 16, 2024
Review: LA Weekly art critic hana Nys Dambrot, “Painter Judithe Hernandez Dreams Big at the Cheech,” March 21,2024
Review: Los Angeles Times, Art Critic Christopher Knight, “The Ghosts of Mexico’s Missing Woman animate Judithe Hernandez’s brooding debut at the Museum of Latin American Art,” Sept 18, 2018
Review: Judithe Hernández and Patssi Valdez: One Path Two Journeys, Millard Sheets Art Center, Pomona CA. Charlene Villaseñor Black, Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art 4, no. 1 (Spring 2018),
Review: PAREDRO.com - "Feminismo latinoamericano más allá de la frontera norte", March 12, 2015
Review: OSTRICH REVIEW Online - Special Issue 6.2, "The Chingona Issue", 2015
Review: Rastros y Cronicas: Women of Juarez – Lisa Brandush, Chicago Tribune, December 2009
Rastros y Cronicas: Women of Juarez – Victor Cassidy, Saatchi Online Magazine, November 2009
Artist Profile: “La Mujer en El Mundo, "Una Chicana en las Artes", La Opinion, March 25, 1982
Artist Profile: Instantaneas, Tiempo y Muerte en la Pintura de Judithe Hernández, La Opinion, August 3, 1979
S E L E C T E D G A L L E R Y E X H I B I T I O N S
ALMA, CORAZON, Y VIDA, University of California Merced 2024 Spring into Action!
Monica King Contemporary, New York, NY, 2020
50 Years of Chicano/a Art Activism Across Borders: Printmaking, Making Prints, and Making Art History, San Diego State University, 2020
CENTENNIAL: One Hundred Years of Otis College Alumni, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, 2019
L.A. ART SHOW 2015, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA 2015
L.A. Muralists in Their Studios II, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2015
Chicana/o Biennial, Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA), San Jose, CA, 2015
Dia de los Muertos - "Alas de los Muertos: The Return of the Souls", Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA, 2015
One Degree of Separation: A Sisterhood of California Women Artists, Arte Américas/Casa de la Cultura, Fresno, CA, 2015
Kaleidoscope, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2014
C.O.L.A. 2013, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2013
Self Help Graphics Annual Print Fair & Exhibition, Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA, 2012
The Naming of the Cesar E. Chavez Memorial Auditorium, United States Department of Labor, 2012
Pacific Standard Time: L.A. Art 1945-1980 ‒ Breaking in Two: Provocative Visions of Motherhood, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2012
Los Vets, Ave 50 Studio, Los Angeles, CA, 2011
38th Annual Dia de los Muertos Exhibition, Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA, 2011
Mujer: art+genesis+power, Latino Museum of History, Art, and Culture/Consulado de Mexico, Los Angeles, CA, 2011
Light and Dark Drawings, Fremont Gallery, South Pasadena, CA, 2010
Body Language, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, CA, 2010
After Adelita, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL (Catalog), 2010
12th International Open Exhibition, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2009
Women's Works 2009 Exhibition, Arts Center Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2009
Bearing Witness: Art as Social Action, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL (DVD catalog), 2009
Layer Cake: Tales of a Quinceañera, Columbia College - C33 Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2009
11th Annual Chicago Art Open, Grand Salon, Merchandise Mart (Catalog), 2009
Her Mark 2010, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2009
The Collection: The Narratives of Patric McCoy, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2010
32nd Bradley International Print & Drawing Exhibition, Bradley University, (Catalog), 2009
66th Annual Salon Show, the Center for Visual and Performing Arts, Hammond, IN
Women Imaging Women: A Study of Female Portraiture, Robert Morris University, Chicago, IL, 2009
Chicago ARTEAhora, River East Art Center, Chicago, IL, 2008
Gallery Artists, Ogilvie/Pertl Gallery, River East Art Center, Chicago, IL, 2008
Reforming US: Immigration through Art, Crown Center Gallery, Loyola University Chicago, IL, 2008
Mexican Otis, Otis College of Art Design, Los Angeles, CA, 2004
California Connections, Gallery 1078, Chico, CA, 1995
Los 4: Twenty Years Later, Robert Berman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1994
Contemporary Latin American Artists, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA, 1989
The Murals of Aztlan: The Street Painters of East Los, University of Houston, Houston, TX 1984
Califas on Paper, Fondo del Sol, Washington, D.C., 1982
Six Chicano Artists, Roberts Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 1980
Chicanindia, Galería Capistrano, Capistrano, CA, 1980
Arte Chicano, Galería Pentagano, Mexico City, 1979
Los Four en Fresno, California State University Fresno, Fresno, CA, 1977
Los Four Banners and Paper, Mount San Antonio College, Walnut Grove, CA, 1977
Arte Picante, Mandeville Gallery, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 1976
Los Four en Sacra, California State University Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 1976
Las Chicanas: Venas de la Mujer, The Women's Building, Los Angeles, CA, 1976
Las Chicanas, Mechicano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1976
In Search of Four Women...Four Cultures, California Institute of Technology, Baxter Gallery, Pasadena, CA (Catalog), 1976
ASCO/Los Four, the Point Gallery, Santa Monica CA, 1975
Los Four Por El Pueblo, California State University Los Angeles, CA, 1975
Las Chicanas, Boat House Gallery, Plaza de la Raza, Los Angeles, CA, 1975
10 Chicano Artists, the Point Gallery 2669 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA, 1975
Los 4, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1974
LosFour: Art of the Barrio, Both Old and New,Self HelpGraphics,LosAngeles,CA,1974
Chicano Art, Art Gallery, Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, CA
H O N O R S & A W A R D S
Commendation for Contributions to the Arts, awarded by the California State Legislature, 2023
Legacy Artist Award, awarded by Self Help Graphics, 2023
Icon de Arte Award – As a Pioneer and Founder of Chicano Art. La PLAZA de Cultura y Artes, 2018
Sor Juana Legacy Award - Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to the Arts, National Museum of Mexican Art, 2018
L.A. Department of Cultural Restoration Grant for her designated historically significant mural “Homenaje al las Mujeres de Aztlan,” 2016
Michael Leyva Memorial Award - For contributions to Chicano Culture & Social Activism, 2014
International Latino Book Awards - Floricanto en Aztlan (Illustrator), Best Poetry Book, 2013
Women’s History Month: Thirty-One Days of Extraordinary Women, KCET, March 2012
12th Annual International Open, Woman Made, Chicago, IL, First Prize, 2009
32nd Bradley International Print & Drawing Exhibition, Honorable Mention, 2009
Otis College of Art and Design, designated Outstanding Alumni, 2007
The Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art, Oral biography collected for archives, 2002
Comisión Femenil Mexicana Nacional - Achievement in the Fine Arts, 1980
F E L L O W S H I P S / G R A N T S / R E S I D E N C I E S
Anonymous Was a Woman Grant, 2021
Ramona Gardens Housing Project, 2016
City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship (C.O.L.A.), 2012
University of Chicago, Artist-in-Residence, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, 2011
National Endowment for the Arts Mural Grant, “Homenaje a las Mujeres de Aztlan,” Ramona Garden Housing Project, Los Angeles, CA, 1977
National Endowment for the Arts, Mural Grant, “El Teatro de la Vida,” Inner City Mural Program, Los Angeles, CA ,1974
B O O K C O V E R S / I L L U S T R A T I O N & G R A P H I C D E S I G N
Spatial and Discursive Violence in the US Southwest, Rosaura Sánchez & Beatrice Pita, Duke University Press, 2021
Tras la Huella del Monstruo Femenino, Alfredo Hermosillo & Aaron Rosenberg, Universidad de Guadalajara, 2021
Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 50th Anniversary Issue, Vol 45 #1, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, 2020
The Bullets Had His Face in the Dove of His Blood, Paul Lobo Portugés, FLP Media Group, 2019
Lessons on Expulsion: Poems, Erika L. Sánchez, Graywolf Press, 2017
Women Artist’s Datebook, Syracuse Cultural Workers, 2015
Tunaluna, Alurista, Aztlan Libre Press, 2010
UIC School of Public Health Journal, University of Illinois Chicago, 1990‒92
Floricanto en Aztlan, Alberto Urista, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, 1970
AZTLAN: a Journal of Chicano Studies, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, 1970‒75