Vincent Valdez

 

From 2000 - 2014 this was the official website for the artist, Vincent Valdez, who has been called one of San Antonio’s great young artists. This archived version of the original website was created for use by the university art department under a grant provided by CleanItSupply, online retailer of cleaning supplies & products.
Content is from the site's archived pages as well as from other sources.

The current website for Vincent Valdez is found at: www.vincentvaldezart.com/


Valdez grew up in San Antonio and demonstrated talent for drawing at an early age. As a young muralist, he began exploring imagery that pertained to social/political statements. Vincent received a full scholarship to The Rhode Island School of Design where he earned his BFA in 2000. In 2004 at age 26, Stations, Valdez’s suite of monumental charcoal drawings, was shown at the McNay Museum in Texas. He was the youngest artist to have a solo exhibition at the McNay. Exhibition venues include: The Los Angeles County Musuem of Art, The Snite Musuem of Art, The Frye Museum, The Mexican Museum of National Art ,Chicago, The Parsons Museum in Paris, The El Paso Museum of Art, OSDE Buenos Aires, The Laguna Art Museum and others.
A recipient of the Skowhegan School of Painting ’05 and The Vermont Studio Center ’11, Valdez lives and works in Firestation #15, his restored 1928 Firestation in San Antonio, TX.

VINCENT VALDEZ   b. 1977

EDUCATION
2000 BFA The Rhode Island School of Design

RESIDENCIES
2014 Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Residency, Berlin, Germany
2011 The Vermont Studio Center
2005 The Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture
2003 SALA: SA MEETS LA Exchange
Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA
2001 PRIMER PASO Artist in Residency Grant,
The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, TX

AWARDS

2006 San Antonio Artist Foundation Grant Recipient
2005 ArtPace Artist Travel Grant Recipient
54th ANNUAL ARTIST OF THE YEAR AWARD San Antonio, Art League Museum
2002 BEST OF SHOW AWARD Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2014
THE STRANGEST FRUIT ArtPace, San Antonio, TX

 



The David Winton Bell Gallery will present a symposium in conjunction with the opening of Vincent Valdez: The Strangest Fruit on October 18, 2013 from 3:30 to 6:30 pm. The Strangest Fruit, Valdez's new series of ten large-scale paintings, references the lynching of Latinos in the United States and metaphorically illustrates the persecution and oppression felt by contemporary Latino Americans. Monica Muñoz Martinez, Daniel Hernandez, and Vincent Valdez will respond to the works and the histories and contemporary experiences that fostered them.

It’s very important to me that the subjects of these paintings are modern. It’s the idea of how, in America, the noose has evolved in various ways. It’s no longer a rope over a tree, it’s a slow death of incarceration, drug wars, combat wars, poverty, lack of education, and racial profiling.

— Vincent Valdez

THE STRANGEST FRUIT
ArtPace, The Hudson Gallery
May 8 - Aug 31

Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Residency
Berlin, Germany
Jan 15 - Aprril 15, 2014

THE STRANGEST FRUIT
Oct 18 - Jan 14, 2014
The Bell Gallery, Brown University
Providence, RI



FACE TO FACE: ARTIST’S SELF PORTRAITS FROM THE COLLECTION OF
JACKYE AND CURTIS FINCH, JR.
The Arkansas Arts Center
Oct 25 - Feb 9, 2014

2013
THE STRANGEST FRUIT The Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI

2012
EXCERPTS FOR JOHN The Marion Koogler McNay Museum, San Antonio, TX

2011
AMERICA’S FINEST Texas Contemporary Art Fair, Houston,TX

2010
FLASHBACK The Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX
STATIONS, Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Mesa, AZ

2009
BURN Federal Art Projects, Los Angeles, CA
EL CHAVEZ RAVINE: VINCENT VALDEZ AND RY COODER
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX



A behind the scenes look at the making of at Vincent Valdez "El Chávez Ravine". See photographs, drawings, paintings and studies, as well as Vincent in the studio at work on Ry Cooder's 1953 Chevy ice cream truck. Visit www.vincentvaldez.net for more on Vincent Valdez and "El Chávez Ravine".

 

 

2008
WITHOUT END The Gallery of UTA/University of TX, Arlington, TX

2007
PRIDE OF THE SOUTHSIDE The Museo Alameda Smithsonian
San Antonio, TX
WINNER’S CIRCLE Western Project, Los Angeles, CA
PRIDE OF THE SOUTHSIDE – O’Kane Gallery, The University of Houston
Houston, TX

2005
STATIONS Traveling: The Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame University,IN; University of Texas A&M, Laredo, TX (2006); Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePaul University, Greencastle, IN (2006); The Islander Art Gallery,Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX

2004
STATIONS Marion Koogler McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX

2003
NEW WORX Art Miami, Miami, FL

 

2002
MADE MEN Fine Silver Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2 TO WATCH: VINCENT VALDEZ & OSCAR CASARES
ArtPace, San Antonio, TX
THE MIX! SERIES, VINCENT VALDEZ The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX

2001
54TH ARTIST OF THE YEAR San Antonio Art League Museum, San Antonio,TX

1999
RECUERDO Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, TX

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013
FACE TO FACE: ARTIST’S SELF PORTRAITS FROM THE COLLECTIONN OF JACKYE AND CURTIS FINCH, JR. The Arkansas Arts Center

LEGEND TRIPPING Masters & Pelavin Ny, Ny

 

 

CHANGING PERCEPTIONS OF THE WESTERN LANDSCAPE The Albuquerque
Museum of Art, Abq, NM

2012
TX CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR, HOUSTON,TX
ART MIAMI, Miami, FL
PRIDE, PROTEST, & PLAINS Red Arrow Contemporary, Dallas, TX ICONS:RISD Woods-Gerry Gallery The Rhode Island School of Design REPRESENT LA Vincent Price Art Museum, East LA College Los Angeles,CA SA COLLECTS The San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX

2011
SILVER: 25TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION The Gallery at UTA University of TX, Arlington
ARTE TEJANO: de CAMPOS, BARRIOS Y FRONTERAS
Fundacion Osde Buenos Aires, Brazil
MUERTES National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago IL

2010
ROADSHOW: HOUSTON Inman Gallery Complex, Houston,TX
FORETOPIA David Shelton Gallery, San Antonio, TX
ONE: A GROUP EXHIBITION David Shelton Gallery, San Antonio,TX
EL GRITO: THE CRY FOR INDEPENDENCE The University of Arkansas
Little Rock, AK

2009
WESTERN PROJECT: THE FIRST SIX YEARS Western Project, Los Angeles,CA
WEST/SOUTHWEST ALBERQERQUE-LOS ANGELES EXCHANGE
516 Arts, ABQ, NM & LA Art Core, LA,CA

2008
ANGELENOS: PAINTERS OF LOS ANGELES
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
AMERICAN REALISM Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne Indiana

IN THE LAND OF RETINAL DELIGHTS:THE JUXTAPOSE FACTOR
Laguna Art Museum Orange County, CA
BEYOND THE BORDER The Mexican Museum, Chicago, IL

2007
LA VIDA LOWRIDER: CRUISING IN THE CITY OF ANGELS
Petersen Automative Museum Los Angeles, CA

 

THE SIRENS’ SONG: CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVE PAINTING
The Arthouse, Austin, TX

2006
SWALLOW HARDER The Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington DRAWING CONCLUSIONS ON THE WALL Chapman University Orange County, CA

2004
LATITUDE: Te WHARE WHANANGA O AWANUIARANGI WHAKATANE
New Zealand
A TIMELESS MONTAGE OF CONFLICT AND BEING Parsons School of Design
Paris, France
FROM THE COLLECTION OF JOE A. DIAZ The Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX; travels to The National Hispanic Research Center Alburqerque, NM; The San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA The Mexican Museum, Chicago
LIKENESS AND PRESENCE Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA 2003

2003
TREINTA: 30 YEARS OF CHICANO PRINTMAKING AND JUSTICE
Self Help Graphics Los Angeles, CA
DRAWN FROM MEMORY AND REALITY: VALDEZ AND RAMOS
Joan Grona Gallery, San Antonio, TX
LARGER THAN LIFE The Leisure Club: Mogadishni” – Copenhagen,Denmark

2002
CHICANO VISIONS: AMERICAN PAINTERS ON THE VERGE, FROM THE COLLECTION OF CHEECH MARIN The San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX; travels to The Mexican Museum, Chicago, IL; The Weisman Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN; The Smithsonian Museum of Science and Industry, Washington, DC; The San Diego Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, The O’Kane Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX
CONTEMPORARY DRAWING IN TX Marion Koogler McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
17TH ANNUAL NEW AMERICAN TALENT Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, TX
EL GRUPO TEJANO Tenessee State University, Murfreesborough, TN

2002
EL ESPEJO (THE MIRROR)
Art Scan Gallery, Houston, TX
CONTEMPORARY FIGURATIVE WORKS ON PAPER
Blue Star Arts Complex,San Antonio, TX

THE POWER OF PLACE Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX
TRACES OF CULTURE: YOUNG LATION ARTISTS Mexic-Arte Museum

 

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