SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023
Tracing the Edge, Benton Museum of Art, Pomona College, Claremont CA
Abstract Wanderings from the LA Borderlands, Solo Exhibition, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, CA
2022
FAST FORWARD/The Future is Equal, Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Contemporary East/Northeast Artists of Los Angeles/Getty 25, Plaza de la Raza, Lincoln Heights/L.A., CA
Summit of the Americas, Created original artworks for delegates. Commissioned by U.S. Department of Protocol, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, CA
2020 – 2021
Covid 19 – Isolation in Los Angeles, CA
2019
SUR:biennial, Southern Geometries, Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA
Architexture, Group Exhibition, Coagula Curatorial, Los Angeles, CA
2017
The Avalanche and the Silence, Solo Exhibition, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard California
Legacies, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Linda Arreola: Architect of the Abstract, Solo Exhibition, Vincent Price Art Museum, L.A. California
Remembrance Past & Future, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard California
Transitional Realities, Fullerton College Art Gallery, Fullerton California
2015
Aqui Estamos/We Are Here, California Chican@ Art, Cabrillo Gallery, Cabrillo College, Aptos, California
2014
Notes from the Chicano Sublime, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, California
Imaginary Sounds, Eagle Rock Hub Gallery, Eagle Rock, California
2013
Small Works, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Bergamont Station, Santa Monica, CA
Chican@s Y Que, Plaza De LA Raza, Los Angeles, California
Seven Beauties, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, California
2012
Rock Paper Scissors, Coagula Curatorial, Los Angeles, California
LOCAL COLOR – LAC+USC – The Medical Village, Los Angeles, California
2011
Abstraction, Seaver Gallery, Marlborough School, Los Angeles, California
“4”, Tropico De Nopal Gallery Art Space, Los Angeles, California
2010
COLA, L.A. Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
archiTECHtonica, University of Colorado at Boulder Art Museum, Boulder, Colorado
The Power of Then, Museo De Las Americas, Denver, Colorado
2009
Marked Intensity, Jose Drudis-Biada Gallery, Mount St. Mary’s College, Bel Air, California
Like Water on Rock, JWAN Exhibition, Gotthelf Gallery, La Jolla, California
Chicano Biennial, Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA), San Jose, CA
Locals Only, LOOK Gallery, Curated by Mat Gleason, Los Angeles, California
Linda Arreola, Solo Exhibition, Walter Shatford Library, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
Like Water on Rock, JWAN National Juried Exhibition, Platt-Borstein Gallery, Bel Air, California
2008
East of Eden: Multi Gallery Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, L.A. California
Vaguely Chicana, Solo Exhibition, Tropico De Nopal Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Rebel Legacy: The Abstract in Latino Art, Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2007
Colectiva De Navidad, Murnau Art Gallery, Sevilla, Spain
12 Artists / 24 Ideas, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, California
2006
Chicano: Pronouncing Diversity, Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, L.A. California
La Diosa:Rapture of the Goddess, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, California
Five L.A. Chicano Artists, Galerie Par-Ci-Par-La, Lyon, France
TransFOURmations, 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, California
2005
Mirando Sur/Mirando Norte, California State University Northridge, Northridge, California
Nempantla Dreams, Alumni Juried Exhibit, California State University L.A., California
2004
Altaring Course, Political Altars for our Time, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, California
Voyages & Explorations, So.Cal Women’s Caucus for the Arts, Brewery Gallery, L.A., CA
2003
Shelter: Coming Home, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, California
SitZip, Pierce College Art Gallery, Woodland Hills, California
Espejo de la Mujer/Mirror of a New Woman, Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, California
2002
Quarteto de Luna, Four Woman Painters, Tropico De Nopal Gallery, L.A., California
Color Outside the Lines, Juried by Joan Hugo, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach , California
Juried Show, 57 Underground Gallery, Juried by Roland Reiss, Pomona, CA., California
2001
Urban, Suburban & the Boondocks, Juried by Martin Betz, Long Beach, California
La Union Del Pueblo, Juried Exhibit of Mexican American Artists, Boise State University, Idaho
2000
Stuff We Like, SCA Gallery, Group Invitational, Pomona Arts Colony, California
A Matter of Life and Death, A Tran-Atlantic Millennium Exchange, Self- Help Graphics, Los Angeles and A.C.A.V.A. Studios, London
AWARDS
California Community Foundation – Artist Fellowship 2017
C.O.L.A. 2010 – Individual Artist Fellowship, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department
Durfee Foundation ARC Grant 2008 – Artists’ Resource for Completion Grantee, For solo exhibition sculptural installation at Tropico de Nopal Gallery Art Space
PUBLICATIONS/ARTICLES
Linda Arreola/Avenue 50 Studio by Bill Moreno. Review of Solo Exhibition, “Abstract Wanderings From the LA Borderlands”, artillery Magazine, Sept/Oct 2023
Abstract Wanderings from the LA Borderlands – exhibtion catalog, “Discovery Channel” – catalog essay by Nicolas Orozco-Valdivia, 2023
SUR:biennial 2019 – exhibition catalog, “Southern Geometries: Contemporary Non-Objective Art and the Latin American Diaspora”, Cerritos College, by James MacDevitt
Chicana/o REMIX: Art and Errata since the Sixties, book, by Karen Mary Davalos, New York University Press, 2017
Avalanche and the Silence, Carnegie Art Museum exhibition catalog essay “Some American Painting” by David Pagel, 2017
Architect of the Abstract, Vincent Price Art Museum exhibition catalog essay, “Divine Simplicity: The Abstract Constructions of Linda Arreola” by Sybil Venegas, 2016
Artillery Magazine, “Linda Arreola, Vincent Price Art Museum”, review by Ezrha Jean Black, pg. 53, Vol. 10, Issue 5, May – June 2016
LA ART NEWS, “Linda Arreola: Architect of the Abstract, at the Vincent Price Art Museum”, Front page article with photos, Section A, Vol. 4 No. 1, April 2015
Brooklyn & Boyle, newspaper, “Linda Arreola: Architect of the Abstract”, Article by Sybil Venegas, Vol.7, No.2, March 2015
Artillery Magazine, “Volver: Tropico De Nopal Honors its First Four”, Vol. 5 Issue 6, July/August, 2011
“4”, Tropico de Nopal Gallery exhibition catalog essays, “Imaging Space and Place: the lessons of nepantla” by Karen Mary Davalos and (4) L.A. Women: Negotiating Spatiality and Urban Terrains in Art” by Dianna Marisol Santillano-Romo, 2011
COLA 2010, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery exhibition catalog, essay by Gabriel Cifarelli, L.A. Department of Cultural Affairs, 2010
The Journal of Mujeres Activas En Letras Y Cambio Social, Chicana/Latinas Sudies, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, Image of artwork on cover and within journal and artist statement page 6-7, Volume 8 Issues 1/2 Spring 2009.
Vaguely Chicana, Tropico De Nopal Gallery exhibition catalog essay, “The Poetry of Embodiment: Series and Variation in Linda Arreola’s Vaguely Chicana” by Laura E. Perez – 2008
Los Angeles Times, “A Beautiful New Heart for East L.A.”, Article on Pubic Artwork at the East Los Angeles Civic Center, April 26, 2008.
Contemporary Chicana/Chicano Art, Book Vol. I p. 60, Vol. II p. 2, Bilingual Press, Fall 2002.
COLLECTIONS
Benton Museum of Art, Pomona College, Claremont CA, 2023
AltaMed Art Collection, Los Angeles, CA, 2023
Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard CA- Permanent Collection, 2017
Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park CA – Permanent Collection, 2016
Colorado University at Boulder Art Museum, Permanent Collection, 2010
California State University, Los Angeles – L.A. Art Project, University Student Union Permanent Collection, 1998
Private Collections throughout Southern California
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
Metro Guard Rails, Ist street corridor metro stations, Eastside Access Project, Metro Los Angeles, 2017
Public Altar, White Memorial Hospital-Pennsylvania Ave, Eastside Access Project, Metro Los Angeles, 2014
East Los Angeles Civic Center Project, Sculptural seats in main plaza, Los Angeles County Department of Pubic Works, completed -May 2008
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Southern California Women’s Caucus for the Arts (SCWCA)
EDUCATION
Master of Architecture, University of California, Los Angeles, CA. Design Studio 1991
Master of Arts, California State University, Los Angeles, CA. Sculpture 1985
Bachelor of Arts, California State University, Los Angeles, CA. Fine Arts 1980