Sandra de la Loza
{{Short description|American artist (born 1968)}}
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Sandra de la Loza (born 1968) is an American artist living and working in Los Angeles. She is the founder and only official member{{cite book|last1=Ontiveros|first1=Mario|title=Phantom Sightings Art After the Chicano Movement|date=2008|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA|isbn=978-0-520-25563-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/phantomsightings0000gonz/page/133 133]|url=https://archive.org/details/phantomsightings0000gonz/page/133}} of the Pocho Research Society of Erased and Invisible History (2001), a collaborative project working with artists, activist, and historians to investigate place and memory through public interventions.{{cite book|last1=de la Loza|first1=Sandra|title=The Pocho Research Society Field Guide to L.A.|date=2011|publisher=UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press|location=Los Angeles|isbn=978-0-89551-146-1|page=83}}
Education
Sandra studied Latin American history and culture at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM), and earned a B.A. in Chicano Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She completed her M.F.A. at California State University, Long Beach in 2004.{{cite web|last1=Sternad|first1=Jennifer Flores|title=featured artists Sandra de la Loza|url=http://www.latinart.com/faview.cfm?id=910|website=LatinArt.com Interview of Sandra de la Loza|accessdate=8 March 2015}}
Selected works
As part of [http://www.getty.edu/foundation/initiatives/past/pst/ Pacific Standard Time: Art in Los Angeles 1945-1980] the Los Angeles County Museum of Art presented Mural Remix: Sandra de la Loza, a project examining forgotten Chicano murals produced during the 1970s through experimental video documentation.{{cite web|title=Mural Remix: Sandra de la Loza|url=http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/mural-remix-sandra-de-la-loza|website=LACMA.org|accessdate=8 March 2015}}
In 2024, the Pérez Art Museum Miami showcased her work as part of Xican-a.o.x. Body, a group show expanding on the art narratives by Chicano artists from 1960s to the present.{{Cite web |title=Xican-a.o.x. Body • Pérez Art Museum Miami |url=https://www.pamm.org/en/exhibition/xican-a-o-x-body/ |access-date=2024-09-18 |website=Pérez Art Museum Miami |language=en-US}}
Awards
In 2013, Sandra was awarded the California Community Foundation, Mid-Career Artist Grant, Artist in Residence Grant, Department of Cultural Affairs and in 2012 she was awarded the Art Matters Grant. Sandra was the Project Research Fellow (2009-2011) Chicano Studies Research Center, University of California, Los Angeles as part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, The Getty Foundation.{{cite web|title=Sandra de la Loza Biography|url=http://my.calfund.org/artist-gallery/gallery/year-2013/sandra-de-la-loza/|website=CCF Fellowship for Visual Artists|accessdate=8 March 2015}}
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Category:National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni
Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni
Category:California State University, Long Beach alumni
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