Celia Herrera Rodriguez

Celia Herrera Rodriguez (born November 26, 1952, in Sacramento, California ) is an American educator, painter, and performance and installation artist.

Biography Rodriguez is originally from Sacramento, California, and she was born on November 26, 1952. She has taught programs including Chicano Studies at the University of California, Berkeley for seventeen years. 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 Indigenous Thought, Art and Social Practice at UCSB, where she teaches Chicana art history and studio practice in the Department of Chicano and Chicana Studies.

Education 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.

Artworks

Un rezo en cuatro caminos This work was originated presented in III Bienal Internacional de Estandartes Tijuana 2004. Its title means " A Prayer on Four Roads".

The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea This production was created by Cherrie Moraga in 2005, with Herrera Rodriguez creating the set and costume concepts.

A Prayer to the Mother Waters for Peace The multimedia performance was created in 2006 and presented at the Glass Curtain Gallery, in Chicago, Illinois.

Exhibitions 2006 Sola, pero bien acompañada: III Bienal Internacional de Estandartes Tijuana 2004 2010 La Semilla Caminante: Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, California 2024 Xican-a.o.x. Body, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida

Collections The Triton Museum, Santa Clara Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College of Chicago CN Gorman Museum, UC-Davis The DeSaisset Museum at Santa Clara University The Institute of American Indian Art Museum in Santa Fe The Oakland Museum of California Tufts University Gallery The Mexican Museum of San Francisco Name Gallery in Chicago

Publications 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