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Bio: Celia Herrera Rodríguez is a painter, performance and installation artist, whose work reflects a full generation of dialogue with Chicano, Native American, Pre-Columbian, and Mexican thought. Hers is a conceptual art, inspired as much from the intricate embroidery work of her Mexican female elders of Sandias Tepehuanes in the state of Durango, México as the iconography of the pre-conquest Mexicas. Originally from Sacramento, California, Herrera Rodríguez received her MFA in painting from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1987, and went on to study Art History, Theory and Criticism at the Art Institute of Chicago. In her five-year tenure in Chicago, she exhibited extensively and became involved in installation and performance art. In the mid-1990s she returned to California, where she has made Oakland her home and has taught Chicano Art and Art History at the University of California, Berkeley for the last four years. She has taught at colleges and universities across the country, and her paintings, drawings and installation work have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work is permanently housed in a number of private and public collections, including the Institute of American Indian Art Museum of Santa Fe and the Gorman Museum of the University of California at Davis. Herrera Rodríguez has also performed in conjunction with her installations for a full decade. In performance, the cultural symbology of her paintings moves into the three-dimensional world of a materialized Mexican Indigenous history. The result is a living codex of contemporary Chicana Feminist thought. |
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Contact Information: celiahrodriguez@comcast.net
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