My Brother, the Acclaimed Artist from the East L.A. Barrio
A Very Personal Chronicle of Painter Salomón Huerta’s Journey to the Whitney Biennial and Beyond
My brother, Salomón Huerta, is an internationally recognized visual artist. When I think about his rise in the art world, I can’t help but reflect on how far he came, from experiencing abject poverty and violence in a Mexican neighborhood and an American barrio to inclusion in the prestigious Whitney Biennial at age 33.
Here’s his story, as only a brother could tell it.
During the early 1960s, to escape the violence of a small Mexican rancho, Zajo Grande, in the beautiful state of Michoacán, our abuelo Martin Huerta Hernandez relocated most …
