Judithe Hernández’s was a founding members of the Chicano Art and Los Angeles Mural Movements of the 1960's. Regarded as one of the important visual artists of the period, she was also the only female member of the seminal and influential East Los Angeles artist collective, Los Four, who broke the museum barrier with the first major exhibition of Chicano art in the United States. Her works are part of several important public and private collections, among them: the Bank of America Corporate Collection, the State of California Collection, and the National Museum of Mexican Art. Her extensive exhibition record includes the ground-breaking first exhibition of contemporary Chicano art in Europe: Le Démon des Anges. Among her many public works is the Los Angeles Bicentennial Mural (1981) commissioned by the City of Los Angeles to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the city's founding in 1781.
In contrast to her public art, her studio work has always been pastel on paper. Commenting upon her work in the Aztlan Journal (Fall 2008), Dr. Chon Noriega of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center wrote, “Judithe Hernández’s vibrant pastel drawings illustrate the formation of a unique political aesthetic and Chicana/o consciousness that continues to inform her work in provocative and stunning ways”. In 2010, she will have solo exhibitions at the National Museum of Mexican Art and Woman Made Gallery.
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M.F.A. Otis College of Art and Design
