Lucie Honorees: Graciela Iturbide & Jo Ann Callisin Collaboration with Rose Gallery
February 26, 2026 — April 17, 2026
Opening Reception: February 28th, 2026 from 3-5 pm
Exhibition Dates: February 26th – April 17th, 2026
Venue: House of Lucie, Los Angeles
Address: 1933 South Broadway, Suite 424, Los Angeles, CA 90007
Graciela Iturbide
2010 Lucie Honoree for Achievement in Fine Art
Graciela Iturbide is known for her black-and-white images of local people in her native country of Mexico. She most often depicts women, believing them to embody independence and sexuality, and in 1979 she notably published Juchitán de las Mujeres, a book of photographs which inspired her lifelong support of feminist causes. Iturbide has photographed in the Sonora Desert and Juchitán de Zaragoza, Mexico as well as in Cuba, Panama, India, Argentina, and the United States. Born in 1942 in Mexico City, Mexico, she went on to study film at the Centro de Estudios Cinematográficos at the Universidad Nacional Autónama de Mexico in 1969, where she came under the influence of acclaimed Mexican photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo. Iturbide went on to work as Bravo’s photography assistant, and his methods and aesthetics have had a lasting effect on her photography practice.
Jo Ann Callis
2023 Lucie Honoree for Achievement in Fine Art
Jo Ann Callis was born in Cincinnati, OH and relocated to Los Angeles in 1961. She enrolled at UCLA in 1970 where she began taking classes with Robert Heinecken, among other prominent artists. She started teaching at CalArts in 1976 and remains a faculty member of the School of Art’s Program in Photography and Media. She has continued to photograph, draw, and paint, and her work has been widely exhibited in such venues as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Hammer Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and many others. In 2009 a retrospective of her work, Woman Twirling, was presented by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Callis has received three NEA Fellowships and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other awards and prizes.
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About the artists
Graciela Iturbide
Graciela Iturbide, born in Mexico City in 1942, is one of Latin America's most important photographers. She studied film at the Centro de Estudios Cinematográficos of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where she met Manuel Álvarez Bravo and became his assistant; his methods and aesthetics have shaped her work ever since. Working in black and white, she photographs the people of her native Mexico, most often women, whom she sees as embodying independence and strength. Her book Juchitán de las Mujeres, devoted to the Zapotec women of Juchitán, inspired…
Jo Ann Callis
Jo Ann Callis was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and moved to Los Angeles in 1961. In 1970 she enrolled at UCLA, where she studied with Robert Heinecken among other prominent artists, and in 1976 she began teaching at CalArts, where she remains on the faculty of the Program in Photography and Media. A pioneer of staged colour photography, Callis has continued to photograph, draw and paint throughout her career. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the…