Vincent Valdez/ℵ A CURATED WINDOW UPON OTHER WORLDS
Windows to Vincent Valdez
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Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Vincent Valdez
- City: Houston, Texas
- Country: United States
- Hometown: San Antonio, Texas
My Life & Work
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Bio:
Vincent Valdez is recognized for his monumental portrayal of the contemporary figure. His drawn and painted subjects remark on a universal struggle within various socio-political arenas and eras. He states,“My aim is to incite public remembrance and to impede distorted realities that I witness, like the social amnesia that surrounds me.”
Valdez was born in 1977 in San Antonio, Texas. He received a full scholarship to study at the Rhode Island School of Design, and earned his BFA in 2000. A recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters and Sculptors (2016), as well as residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting (2005), theVermont Studio Center (2011) and the Kunstlerhaus Bethania Berlin Residency (2014).
Valdez currently lives and works in Houston.
Exhibitions and Collections include: The Ford Foundation, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mass MOca, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The Smithsonian Museum of American Art, and The National Portrait Gallery, among others.
He is represented by David Shelton Gallery and Mathew Brown Los Angeles.
Contact Information
- Email: vvaldez78@gmail.com
My Media & Markets
- ▶ Instagram: vincentvaldez77
- ▶ Website: http://vincentvaldezstudio.com
- ▶ Articles: http://vincentvaldezstudio.com/press
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Quotes, Notes & Etc.
These subjects are framed by my personal experiences and examination of contemporary life in twenty-first century America. Distorted social realities such as economic and racial inequality, conflict, hyper-nationalism, sanctioned violence, and other systemic patterns that historically serve as prelude for democratic decay compels me to reflect on my social environment.
I am alarmed by the denial of history. I will continue to create visual counter-images to impede the social amnesia that surrounds me. Painting can’t change the world. But, it can provide critical moments of silence and clarity during times of immense distortion and chaos.
I stand firm in my belief that the artist must play a role in a rapidly changing society. It has been my life’s effort to create a visual language entirely my own, driven by a pursuit for skill, reflection and conviction. Here are my visual memorials to the experience of being human.