Exhibitions

Vincent Valdez was born in 1977 and raised in San Antonio, Texas. He received a full scholarship and his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2000.

 He has had one-person exhibitions at the Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, TX 2004, the Snite Museum of Art at Notre Dame, and the Museo Alameda in San Antonio, Texas. He has also exhibited his work at The Parsons School of Design in Paris, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Museum, The Seattle Museum of Art and the Mexican Museum in Chicago. His work is included in numerous collections, both private and institutional nationwide.

A recipient  of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture ‘05, Valdez currently resides in both Los Angeles, CA and San Antonio, TX. 

Click to download Vincent Valdez Bio ‘09

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+ 2009 Exhibitions

:: Federal Art Project – 316 W. 2nd Street Suite 102, Los Angeles, CA

:: Ry Cooder/Vincent Valdez: El Chavez Ravine – San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX

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+ 2008 Exhibitions

:: “BurnBabyBurn” – Western Project Gallery , Los Angeles, CA

:: “Without End: Vincent Valdez” – The Gallery of UTA/University of TX , Arlington, TX

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+ 2007 Exhibitions

:: “Pride of the SouthSide” – Museo Alameda Smithsonian, San Antonio, TX

:: “Winners Circle: Vincent Valdez” – Western Projects LA, Culver City,

:: “Pride of the Southside” – O’Kane Gallery, The University of Houston, Houston, TX

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+ 2005 Exhibitions

:: “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

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+ 2004 Exhibitions

:: “Stations” – Marion Koogler McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX

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+ 2003 Exhibitions

:: Art Miami 2003 – Finesilver Gallery, Miami, FL

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+ 2002 Exhibitions

:: “Made Men” – Finesilver 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

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+ 2001 Exhibitions

:: “54th Artist of the Year” – San Antonio Art League Museum, SanAntonio,TX

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+ 1999 Exhibitions

:: “Remembering” – Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, TX

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+ 2009

:: “West Southwest: Abq-LA Exchange” – 516 Arts, ABQ, NM & LA ArtCore, LA,CA

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+ 2008

:: “Angelenos: Painters of Los Angeles” – Los Angeles County Museum of Art

:: “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

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+ 2007

:: “La Vida LowRider/Cruising en Los Angeles” – Petersen Automative Museum Los Angeles, CA

:: “The Sirens Song: Contemporary Narrative Painting” – The Arthouse, Austin, TX

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+ 2006

:: “Swallow Harder” – Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington “Drawing Conclusions on the Wall” Chapman University, Orange County, CA

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+ 2004

:: “Latitude” – Te Whare Whananga o Awanuiarangi Whakatane, New Zealand

:: “A Timeless Montage of Conflict and Being” – Parsons School of Design Paris, France

:: “Arte Caliente:The Collection of Joe A. Diaz” – The Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX; travels to The National Hispanic Research Center Alberqerque, NM; The San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

:: “H2O: Artists Consider the Hydrosphere” – Southwest School of Art and Craft San Antonio, TX

:: “Likeness & Prescence” – Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA 2003

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+ 2003

:: Treinta: 30 Years of Chicano Printmaking and Social Justice, Self Help Graphics Los Angeles, CA

:: “Drawing From Memory / Reality: Vincent Valdez and Juan Ramos” – Joan Grona Gallery, San Antonio, TX

:: ”Larger Than Life”, The Leisure Club: Mogadishni” – Copenhagen,Denmark

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+ 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 Texas” – Marion Koogler McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX

:: “17thNew American Talent” – Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, TX

:: ”El Grupo Tejano” – Tenessee State University, Murfreesborough, TN

:: ”El Espejo (The Mirror”) – Art Scan Gallery, Houston, TX

:: “Cucarachas, Perros, Marranos and Elefantes: Alex Rubio and Vincent Valdez” – The Peep Hole Gallery, San Antonio, 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 Latino Artists” – Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX

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