Amanda Valdez

Born 1982 Seattle
Lives and works in New York City

Education & Residencies

2011 Hunter College, MFA
2007 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA
2007 Ox-Bow School of Art
2006 Utrecht University

Solo Exhibitions

2017 Hot Bed, Dot51, Miami, FL
2016 Rotherwas Project 1: Amanda Valdez, Ladies’ Night, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
2016 The Mysteries, Koki Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2016 Time & Tide (two-person exhibi on with Caris Reid), Denny Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Diamond Seat, (two-person exhibi on with Caris Reid), Circuit 12 Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2014 Thick as Thieves, Denny Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Double Down, Prole Dri , Sea le, WA
2013 Taste of Us, Denny Gallery, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

2018 Materializations, the Landing, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Pot Shop, Ed. Varie, New York, NY
2018 Spatial Flux: Contemporary Drawings form the JoAnn Gonzalez Hickey Collection, The Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
2018 NADA, with Denny Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Surface Tension, E. Tay Gallery, New York, NY
2016 The City & The City, Denny Gallery (Pop Up), New York, NY
2016 Nothing You’ve Ever Done Before, for the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
2016 (NCECA) at Kansas City Regional Arts Council (ArtsKC), Kansas City, MO
2015 Art Toronto with Denny Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2015 #BemisPainters, 1985-2015, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2015 Metamodern, Denny Gallery, New York, NY
2015 A Common Thread: S tching & Embroidery, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Tex les, San Jose, CA
2014 Cirrus, Dorfman Projects New York, NY UNTITLED. with Denny Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
2014 Taking O : Hot New Painters, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
2014 mark.repeat., Curated by Kirk Stoller, C2C Project Space, San Francisco, CA
2014 Between the Lines, Galería Agus na Ferreyra, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2014 Made in Ratio, Cheryl Hazan Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Currently Untitled, Galerie Protégé, New York, NY
2013 Floater, BravinLee Programs, New York, NY
2013 Works Off Canvas, Denny Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Same Same But Different, Guest Spot, Baltimore, MD
2012 El Regreso de los Dinosaurios, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
2012 Two Rivers, One River Gallery, Englewood, NJ
2012 Same Same but Different, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA
2012 Return to Rattlesnake Mountain, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2012 Same Same but Different, Parallel Art Space, Queens, NY
2012 MsBehavior, curated by Jordana Zeldin, The ArtBridge Drawing Room, New York, NY
2011 Hunter MFA Thesis Exhibition: And There Will Be Trouble, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY
2011 Faraway Neighbor, Curated by Janelle and Lisa Iglesias Flux Factory, New York, NY
2011 Don’t Fence Me In...Or Out, curated by Lisa Corinne Davis, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York , NY
2010 Xanadu: A Stately Pleasure Dome, curated by Erin Sha ind, Soil Gallery, Sea le, WA
2010 Studio Cube, Curated by ACE Collective, Hunter College, New York, NY
2010 Hunter MFA, Crane Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
2008 Her Mark, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 Evanston + Vicinity Biennial, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
2008 Around the Coyote Spring Art Festival, Curators Choice Award, Riverfront Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 School of the Art Insitute of Chicago Fall BFA Undergraduate Show, G-2 Gallery, Chicago, IL

Awards and Residencies

2018 Artist-in-Residency, New Roots Foundation, Antigua, Guatemala
2017 Artist-in-Residency, Wassaic Project Print Editions Program, Wassaic, NY
2017 Artist-in-Residency, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New Orleans, LA
2016 Artist-in-Residency, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New Orleans, LA
2014 Artist-in-Residency, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2013 Artist-in-Residency, Byrdcliffe, Grant Support from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Woodstock, NY
2013 Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Emergency Opportunity Grant, New York, NY
2013 New York Foundation for the Arts Emergency Grant, New York , NY
2013 Joan Mitchell Emergency Grant, New York, NY
2012 Artist-in-Residency, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
2012 The Eleanor Gay Lee Award, Hunter College, New York, NY
2012 The Esther Fish Perry Award, Hunter College, New York, NY
2011 College Art Association’s MFA Professional-Development Fellowship
2010 Artist-in-Residency, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2009 Educational Scholarship, 16 Copenhagen, Seattle, WA
2009 Curators Choice Award received from Julie Rodriguez Wildholm for Around the Coyote Arts Festival, Associate Curator at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2007 Ox-Bow Thomas Baron Scholarship, Chicago, IL
2007 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Educational Grant, Chicago, IL
2006 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Educational Grant, Chicago, IL