Jacqueline Valenzuela: Sanctified Steel

Jacqueline Valenzuela (b. 1997, East Los Angeles, CA) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work tells her own stories and those of other women in Chicano lowrider culture. She received a BFA in Drawing and Painting from California State University, Long Beach (2019) and is pursuing an MFA in Drawing and Painting at UCLA (expected 2027). Her debut museum solo exhibition, "Con Safos, Con Fuerzas," was at the Bakersfield Museum of Art in 2024; her work is in that museum’s collection and the AltaMed Art Collection.