Vincent Valdez

Vincent Valdez is a Houston and Los Angeles-based artist. He received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. He was a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters and Sculptors, and also completed residencies at the kowhegan School of Painting, the Vermont Studio Center, the Kunstlerhaus Bethania Berlin Residency, and Joan Mitchell Center. Valdez was awarded an Artadia grant and was an artist fellow at NXTHVN in New Haven.

The artist's work is included in numerous museum collections across the United States. Recent institutional exhibitions include The Face of Battle: Americans at War, 9/11 to Now, Smithsonian Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; So Different, So Appealing, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA; The City, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Between Play and Grief Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2019); Suffering from Realness curated by Denise Markonish Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA);and ESTAMOS BIEN: LA TRIENAL 20/21 at El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY. He is represented by Matthew Brown Gallery in Los Angeles, CA.