Sandra de la Loza (born 1968) is an American artist living and working in Los Angeles. She is the founder and only official member 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.

Education

Sandra studied Latin American history and culture at the

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(UNAM), and earned a B.A. in Chicano Studies from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

. She completed her M.F.A. at

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in 2004.

Selected works

As part o
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the

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presented Mural Remix: Sandra de la Loza, a project examining forgotten Chicano murals produced during the 1970s through experimental video documentation. In 2024, the

Pérez Art Museum Miami Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)—officially known as the Jorge M. Pérez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County—is a contemporary art museum that relocated in 2013 to the Maurice A. Ferré Park in Downtown Miami, Florida. Founded in 1984 as the Cent ...

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.

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)

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, University of California, Los Angeles as part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, The

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Notes

1968 births Living people American artists National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni California State University, Long Beach alumni {{DEFAULTSORT:de la Loza, Sandra