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Celia Herrera Rodriguez

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Celia Herrera Rodriguez
Born1952 (age 7374)
EducationBA California State University
MFA University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Art and Criticism Art Institute of Chicago
Known forVisual arts, ethnic studies

Celia Herrera Rodriguez (born 1952)[1] is an American educator, painter, and performance and installation artist.[2] she has taught programs including Chicano Studies at the University of California, Berkeley for seventeen years.[3] She has also been an adjunct professor in the Diversity Studies program at California College of the Arts of the San Francisco Bay Area. Herrera Rodriguez is also the co-founder and co-director of Las Maestras Center for Xicana[x] Indigenous Thought, Art and Social Practice at UCSB, where she teaches Chicana[x] art history and studio practice in the Department of Chicano and Chicana Studies.[4]

Education

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Rodriguez received her B.A. in art and ethnic studies from CSU-Sacramento. She also received her M.F.A. in painting from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She went on to study art history, in 1987, theory and criticism at the Art Institute of Chicago.[5][non-primary source needed]

Artworks

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Un rezo en cuatro caminos

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This work was originated presented in III Bienal Internacional de Estandartes Tijuana 2004.[6] Its title means " A Prayer on Four Roads".

The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea

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This production was created by Cherrie Moraga in 2005, with Herrera Rodriguez creating the set and costume concepts.[7][non-primary source needed]

A Prayer to the Mother Waters for Peace

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The multimedia performance was created in 2006 and presented at the Glass Curtain Gallery, in Chicago, Illinois.[8][non-primary source needed]

Exhibitions

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  • 2006 Sola, pero bien acompañada: III Bienal Internacional de Estandartes Tijuana 2004[9]
  • 2024 Xican-a.o.x. Body, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida[10]

Her work is in the collection of the Gorman Museum of Native American Art[11]

Publications

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Her series of artworks was published in 2011, in a collection of essays by Cherrie Moraga: “Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness, Writing 2000- 2010". Alexander, Jacqui. “Pedagogies of Crossing.” Google Books, Duke University Press, 2005[12]

Bibliography

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  1. Alexander, Jacqui. “Pedagogies of Crossing.” Google Books, Duke University Press, 2005
  2. Casiano, Catherine, and Elizabeth C. Ramirez. “La Voz Latina.” Google Books, University of Illinois Press, 2011
  3. Moraga, Cherríe, and Celia H. Rodriguez. A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Writings, 2000-2010. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011.
  4. Perez, Laura E. “Chicana Art.” Google Books, Duke University Press, 2007

References

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  1. "Celia Herrera Rodríguez". Snowapple House. Retrieved September 6, 2026.
  2. Ramírez, Elizabeth C.; Casiano, Catherine (2011). La Voz Latina. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252036224. Retrieved May 1, 2019.
  3. "Galería de la Raza: Celia Herrera Rodriguez". www.galeriadelaraza.org. Retrieved May 1, 2019.
  4. "CELIA HERRERA RODRIGUEZ – Las Maestras Center". Retrieved May 1, 2019.
  5. "Bio – Celia Herrera Rodriguez". Retrieved May 29, 2019.
  6. "Sola, pero bien acompanada: Celia Herrera Rodriguez". gormanmuseum.ucdavis.edu. Retrieved May 1, 2019.
  7. "Hungry Woman… A Mexican – Celia Herrera Rodriguez". Retrieved May 29, 2019.
  8. "Celia Herrera Rodriguez - Prayer to Mother Waters for Peace (2006)". celiahrodriguez.turnpiece.net. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
  9. "Sola, pero bien acompanada: Celia Herrera Rodriguez". gormanmuseum.ucdavis.edu. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
  10. "Xican-a.o.x. Body • Pérez Art Museum Miami". Pérez Art Museum Miami. Retrieved September 27, 2024.
  11. "Celia Herrera Rodriguez, Untitled". Gorman Museum. August 17, 2021. Retrieved September 6, 2026.
  12. "Drawings by Celia Herrera Rodríguez | A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Writings, 2000–2010 | Books Gateway | Duke University Press". read.dukeupress.edu. May 17, 2011. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
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  • Latino Art Community : Celia Herrera Rodriguez
  • Celia Herrera Rodriguez Profile
  • Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College Chicago
  • Galeria De La Raza