VALDEZ AMANDA

Amanda Valdez (b. 1982) received her MFA from Hunter College in New York City and BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her recent solo exhibitions include here nor there at the Denny Gallery Hong Kong, Breaking Wave at the Danforth Gallery, University of Maine in Augusta, The Deep Way at the Landing in Los Angeles, Gratitude at Denny Dimin Gallery in New York, Piecework at the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, New York, Rattle Around at KOKI Arts in Tokyo, and Ladies ’ Night at the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College. Valdez has received prestigious artist residencies at the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Byrdcliffe, MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. She has received grants from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Following her residency at the New Roots Foundation in Guatemala, her large woven tapestry, Full Tanit , was acquired to be part of the Permanent Collection of the US Embassy, Guatemala City; Art in Embassies, US Department of State. Valdez’s work is included in the collections of the Heckscher Museum of Art, Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, and Time Equities, Inc. in New York. Valdez’s work has been featured or reviewed in Artforum, LA Times, Brooklyn Rail, Whitewall, Newsday, Galerie Magazine, ARTNews, and Forbes.

Hand-dyed fabric, fabric, gouache, acrylic paint, oil stick on mounted paper, and canvas

Artists

here nor there

November 12, 2022 - January 14, 2023

Denny Gallery, Hong Kong

The Deep Way

November 13, 2021 - January 8, 2022

The Landing, Los Angeles, CA

PIECEWORK

August 1 - October 4, 2020

The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY