| 1942 |
Born in San Diego, California. |
1964 |
Receives Associate Degree in Art at College of Marin |
1968 |
Shuts down San Francisco State Univeristy in a student movement strike called "Third World" |
1975 |
Receives her B.A. in Painting and Drawing at San Diegio State Univeristy. Begins to create her Guadalupe Series and finishes the series within three years |
1978 |
Creates famous political poster Who is the Illegal Alien, Pilgrim? |
1979 |
Receives her Master Degree in Visual Arts at UCSD |
1986 |
Awarded a Honorable Mention for First Video at San Antonio Cine Festival |
1988 |
Has a solo exhibition titled Cactus Hearts/Barbed Wire Dreams Media Myths and Mexicans at the Galeria de la Raza in San Francisco, California |
1998 |
Has a solo exhibition titled Work about Work: A Woman Working in San Diego 1919-1998 in the University Arts amd Lectures Series at the San Marcos California State University. |
2002 |
Has a solo Exhibition titled Hybrid Americas: Contrast, and Confluences in New World Literatures and Cultures in Germany at the University of Bielefeld |
2004 |
Awarded "Women of Fire" at the Women of Color Resource Center in Oakland, California |
2008 |
Awarded the National Lifetime Achievement Award in the Visual Arts at the Women's Caucus for Art in Dallas, Texas |
2009 |
First book length exploration of Yolanda Lopez titled Yolanda Lopez written by Karen Mary Davalos |
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