Huerta received a B.F.A. degree from the University of Houston, and an M.A. from New Mexico State University.  He was Co-founder, Executive Director and Emeritus Board Director of Art Lies, a Texas Art Journal.  He recently retired, 1997-2024, as Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington and stepped down as Director / Curator of The Gallery at UTA two years earlier.

His work will be included in a two-person exhibition with Janet Chaffee this December-January, 2024-2025, at Kirk Hopper Fine Art, Dallas, and in April-May, 2025, at Andrew Durham Gallery, Houston. Spring 2024 he was in several one-person exhibitions including Profane Truths and Sacred Lies at The Gallery at UT Arlington shown alongside with Chaffee + Huerta Collaborative Post Modern Fulcrum at UTA. Other one-person exhibitions – More or Less: Una Retrospectiva at William Campbell Gallery, Foch Street, 2022-2023, and Más O Menos: A Retrospective at the Latino Cultural Center in 2023. Huerta has also exhibited in group or one person exhibitions at the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; the Cheech Marin Center For Chicano Art and Culture, Riverside, CA; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago; Houston Museum of African American Culture; the Wichita Falls Museum of Art; the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth; the Glassell Gallery, Shaw Center for the Arts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA; and at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago.  His work is in several museum and corporate collections throughout the United States.

Huerta has completed public art projects for the University of Texas at Arlington, Signs of Life, 2019 and Urban Still Life, South Main Street project, Fort Worth, 2017. Other completed public art projects are the Marine Creek Park Corridor Master Plan in 2014, Fort Worth; SnakePath (Mexican Milk Snake), Mexican American Cultural Center, Austin, Texas (2007); Wings, DFW International Terminal D Skylink terrazzo floor designs (2005); and Axis, Henry Gonzales Convention Center, San Antonio (2003).

As a curator he recently organized a group exhibition of Latinx artists from around the state in More Contemporary American Art at Kirk Hopper Fine Art, 2023. He has also organized a survey exhibitions of Luis Jimenez (co-organized with Christina Rees), 2023, and Mel Chin, 2022, both for The Gallery at UTA, University of Texas at Arlington. Other surveys / retrospectives exhibitions he has organized are of John Hernandez, Dalton Maroney, Cesar A. Martinez, David McGee and Celia Alvarez Munoz.

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