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Latinx Artists

Latinx artists have been taking center stage at international art fairs and museums, catalyzing conversations about their place in the history of American art and exploring notions of identity, language, immigration, queerness, religion and place. Discover the subversive work of Latinx artists in Southern California.

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A contact sheet set against a black background. There are five portraits on each column, all of which are black and white. The images are multiple exposure, overlaying images of people in Indigenous regalia over Mexican American portraits.
Long Overdue: L.A. Photographer Christina Fernandez Finds Her Time Under the Sun
For over three decades, photographer Christina Fernandez used her work as a way to explore immigration, labor, gender and her Mexican American identity with her layered images.
Lizette Hernández is seated in front of a table, sculpting a container out of clay, using her hands. She is wearing a button-up plaid shirt and her hair is cut short in a bob. She's surrounded by lit candle sticks on the table and art materials and projects in various stages of completion.
Ceramic Artist Lizette Hernández Questions the Sacred
Los Angeles-born and raised ceramicist Lizette Hernández questions spirituality and tradition in her work, pulling from her personal beliefs, experiences and family histories.
An art gallery room with white walls features a wall mural painting that is embossed with three-dimensional text that reads, "Beauty Salon." Below, are portrait paintings of three women of color. Above them, graffiti tags, stickers, illustrations and the words "Hair" and "Nails," are on the wall. To the right of the painting is a sculpture resembling a park/bus stop chair, its back painted in yellow with block text that reads "Bitcoin. www.notascam.com."
Artist and Signpainter Preserves Memories of East L.A.'s Overlooked Artifacts
Alfonso Gonzalez Jr.'s work preserves public spaces and fixtures of East L.A. in his landscape art, embodying worn surfaces aged with years of embedded memories, cracks and fragments of paint chipped over decades.
An art gallery room features various pieces of multimedia artwork. On one wall, the image of a Black woman with a flower in her hair standing in front of a waterfall is projected. To the left, a sculpture of a 5-by-5 cube shelf displaying 3D-printed speakers in the shape of 9mm Caracal pistols. In the far back are colorful speakers arranged on various tables with colorful tassel.
Exhibition Spotlights Multigenerational Latinx Sound Artists
An exhibition at the Vincent Price Art Museum investigates the significance of Latinx artists in sound art, exploring how sound, video, music and visual art through a Latinx lens intersect over the decades.
Four men in front of a mural.
Bicultural and Bilingual: Los Four's Legacy and Impact on Art History
Los Four is integral to the development of Chicano/a art in Los Angeles. The significant contributions to contemporary art history of some of its members can now be viewed at the new Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum.
Inside the New Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art
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Inside the New Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art
The first art pieces on view at the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture.
Narsiso Martinez's "Selfie with the Homies" shows three four farmworkers in a photograph together. It is created with ink, gouache and charcoal on a produce box.
Oaxacan Farmworker Turned Artist Reveals Struggles in the Fields Through Portraits on Produce Boxes
Narsiso Martinez's mixed media installations juxtapose portraits of farmworkers and agricultural landscapes against cardboard produce boxes. Drawing from his own experience as a farmworker, his work amplifies the people who fill produce sections and restaurant kitchens around the country.
Two women stand in front of a large and colorful mural. The mural consists of images segregated in their own square, each with their own color block background. One of the squares is yellow with a frog. Another square is pink with the image of a dark-skinned woman with long hair and holding a baby. Other imagery on the tiles include California poppies, corn, a hummingbird, the earth, butterflies and two hands holding soil.
How a Santa Barbara Artist Uses Digital Art to Spread Chicanx Pride
Bright and colorful Santa Barbara-based artist adriana la artista's digital design unpack the often too-hidden histories of Chicanx people, elders, artists, immigrants, activists and community leaders.
J. Sergio O'Cadiz Moctezuma wearing a black suit and tie, sitting on a fireplace mantle. His leg is crossed over the other and a writing surface is resting on his knee. He's looking down and appears to be writing something down. He's smiling.
Sergio O'Cadiz and the Forgotten Artists of Color in Orange County
The arc of arts leader Sergio O’Cadiz Moctezuma is a lesson on the dynamics of artists of color in the Orange County. Just like there’s a link between U.S. history and ethnic cleansing in history books, there exists a similar link between the acknowledgement of a culture’s experienced reality and its representation in the Orange County art scene.
A family walks past a mural of the different Central American countires.
Photo Essay: The Hand-Painted Signs and Murals of Latinx L.A
Sign painters and muralists helped create the visual language of Los Angeles.
Julio Salgado is wearing a floral print shirt and a black jacket while holding up two pieces of his art on each hand. The artwork on his left features the side profile of a woman with multicolored hair and statements like, "Black Lives Matter," "#MeToo," "Make Love Not War," and "Thank Black and Brown Trans Women for Pride." The artwork on the right reads, "No Longer Interested in Convincing You of My Humanity," with a graduation cap at the bottom. Salgado is standing in front of a pink background.
Julio Salgado's Art Uplifts UndocuQueer Existence and Joy
Life as an undocumented queer immigrant is difficult, but Julio Salgado has found that the arts practices he honed in school has helped him combat depression, negativity and stress. He eventually went on to use that creativity to uplift the voices of millions of people just like him.
A black and white collage of women and femme environmental activists.
Power in Care: Carolina Caycedo Maps the Long History of Feminine Environmental Work
On view at Oxy Arts, Carolina Caycedo's "Care Report" is a visual representation of the many ways women have been caring for their communities and the environment through organizing and activism.
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