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Julio Valdez
Pandemic Self Portrait
(detail),2021
Ink, acrylic and oil on silk linen
74 x 58 x 2 inches
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Born Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic
Lives and works in New York City |
Education |
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1994-95 |
Printmaking with Robert
Blackburn and Kathy Caraccio, New York |
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1986-88 |
Fine Arts/Illustration,
The Altos de Chavόn School of Design, La Romana,
Dominican
Republic,
affiliated with Parsons School of Design, New York |
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1984-86 |
National School of
Fine Arts, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
Selected Solo Exhibitions |
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2024 |
Julio Valdez: Recent
Paintings, June Kelly Gallery New York |
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2022 |
Julio Valdez: Mapping
the Layers, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC |
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2019 |
Water Abstractions,
June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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2017 |
Julio Valdez: Recent
Works, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC |
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2016 |
Dreams and
Reflections, Latin American Masters, Santa Monica, CA
Dreams and Reflections, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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2015 |
Julio Valdez & Irene
Carlos, Galeria Ana lucia Gomez, Guatemala, Central America |
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2014 |
Para Soñar el Sol
(In Order to Dream the Sun): New Paintings, June Kelly Gallery,
New York |
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2013 |
Julio Valdez: Recent
Paintings, Latin American Masters, Santa Monica, CA |
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2012-2013 |
Nature: Prints,
Drawings and Mixed Media, curated by Graciela Kartofel, The Center
for
Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT;
catalog |
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2012 |
Nature: Prints,
Drawings and Mixed Media, curated by Graciela Kartofel, The
Arsenal
Gallery, The Arsenal in Central Park, New
York; catalog
Julio Valdez: Selected Work, King Street Gallery, Montgomery College,
MD |
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2010 |
In the Same Path as
the Sun: New Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York
Julio Valdez: New Water Paintings, Latin American Masters, Santa
Monica, CA |
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2009 |
El Mar de los Delirios,
Galeria Botello, San Juan, Puerto Rico; brochure |
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2008 |
Julio Valdez: Obra
Recientes, Legacy Fine Arts, Panama City, Panama |
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2007 |
Water Paintings,
June Kelly Gallery, New York
Julio Valdez: Water Paintings, Latin American Masters, Beverly Hills,
CA |
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2005 |
Julio Valdez: Recent
Works, Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA |
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2004 |
Between Shock and
Tenderness, Galeria Botello, San Juan, Puerto Rico; brochure |
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2003 |
Julio Valdez: Selected
Works, Latin American Masters, Beverly Hills, CA
The Island and the Continent, The Art Museum of the
Americas Gallery, Organization of
American States,
Washington, DC; brochure
Recent Works, Solar Latin American Art and Design, East Hampton, NY |
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2002 |
Echando Raíces,
Galeria Botello, San Juan, Puerto Rico |
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2001 |
Julio Valdez: Obras
recientes, Legacy Fine Art, Panama City, Panama
Julio Valdez: Los Sacrificios Fecundos, Fundacion Centro Cultural,
The Altos de Chavόn, La
Romana,
Dominican Republic; catalogue |
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2000 |
Julio Valdez: Recent
Paintings, Latin American Masters, Beverly Hills, CA
Obras Recientes de Julio Valdez, Galería Botello, San Juan, Puerto
Rico |
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1999 |
Root of Dreams,
Museo de las Casas Reales, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic;
catalogue
Works on Paper, Maison des Arts et de la Culture, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu,
Quebec, Canada |
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1998 |
Julio Valdez:
Transpositions, Toomey-Tourell Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
Transpositions, Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican
Republic; catalogue |
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1997 |
Transpositions,
Museo de las Americas, San Juan, Puerto Rico; catalogue |
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1995 |
Cantos: Recent Works
1989-1995, Voluntariado de las Casas Reales, Santo
Domingo;
traveled to Center for the Arts
and Culture, Santiago, Dominican Republic |
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1993 |
La Era del Mito,
Galeria San Juan Bautista, Casa Alcaldia, San Juan, Puerto Rico |
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1992 |
Julio Valdez:
Recent Works, Galeria Plastica Contemporanea, Guatemala, Central America |
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1991 |
Habitos del Tiempo,
Voluntariado de las Casas Reales, Santo Domingo, Dominican
Republic; brochure |
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1989 |
Aire Fresco,
Institute of Hispanic Culture, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
Selected Group Exhibitions |
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2023 |
National Biennial of
Visual Arts, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico |
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2022 |
Organization of American
States (OAS), Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC |
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2019 |
58th Venice Biennale,
Pavillion of Dominican Republic, Venice, Italy
Summertime, Faction Art Projects, Harlem, New York
Art on Paper Fair, Pier 36, New York |
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2017 |
Celebrating 30 Years,
Gallery Artists: Drawing and Photography, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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2016 |
Monoprint Invitational
Exhibition, Woodstock School of Art, NY |
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2014-15 |
Modern and
Contemporary Dominican Art: Works From The Collection
Of The General Directorate
Of Customs, Art Museum of the Americas
Washington, DC, traveled to United Nations, New
York; Instituto Cervantes, Madrid,
Spain; Eugenio Granell Foundation, Santiago
de Compostela, Spain |
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2014 |
Paper Trail, New
Works on Paper, Latin American Masters, Santa Monica, CA |
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2012 |
The Big Picture: A
Photography Exhibition in Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the IDB
Cultural Center, Dulles International
Airport, Dulles, VA |
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2011 |
Emerging Artists from
Latin America and the Caribbean, organized by
the World Bank Art
Program, Washington, DC. The exhibition is
being shown on a rotating basis among the
World Bank offices in Washington
and Paris, as well as at the Cultural Center of the Inter-
American Development Bank and at the Art
Museum of the Americas of the Organization
of American States, both also in Washington |
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2010 |
International
Triennialof the Caribbean, Museum of Modern
Art, Santa Domingo,
Dominican
Republic |
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2009 |
Creative Dialogues:
Latin American Printmakers, Center for Contemporary
Printmaking,
Norwalk, CT |
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2008 |
Silk Aquatint:
Painterly Graphics, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York |
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2007 |
Art of Collecting,
Flint Institute of Arts, MI
ReGrouping: Three Generations of Latin American Artists in New York,
Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York |
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2006 |
Merengue! Visual
Rythms, El Museo del Barrio, New York
This Skin I’m In: Contemporary Dominican Art from El Museo del Barrio’s
Permanent Collection,
New York
Transplant/Transculture, Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery, Riverdale, New
York
Silk Aquatint: Painterly Graphics, Center for Contemporary
Printmaking, Norwalk, CT |
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2005 |
My Island, My Home,
The Long Island Museum, Stony Brook, Long Island, NY |
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2004 |
Silk Aquatint:
Painterly Graphics, State Department, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico;
traveling
exhibition |
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2003 |
La Joven Estampa,
Latin American Print Biennial, Casa de las Americas, La Habana, Cuba
International Print Bienal, Varna, Bulgaria
Gráfica, Solar Latin American Art and Design, East Hampton, NY
The Solarplate Revolution, organized by Dan Welden, Whitney Art
Works, Greenport, NY |
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2002 |
XIX E. León Jimenes
Biennial, Santiago, Dominican Republic |
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2001 |
Obra Grafica,
Saludo a la XIII Bienal de San Juan, Galeria Botello, Puerto Rico |
Public Collections |
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El Museo del Barrio, New
York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Musée Grimaldi, Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France
Museo Omar Rayo, Roldanillo, Colombia
Museo de Arte Moderno, Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Art Museum of the Americas, Organization of American States (OAS),
Washington, DC
Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca, México
Fundación Cultural Altos de Chavón, La Romano, Dominican Republic
Centro Leon, Santiago, Dominican Republic
Ministry of Culture, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Altos de Chavόn, Cultural Center Foundation, La Romana, Dominican Republic
The Library of Congress, Washington, DC
IDB Art Collection, Inter American Development Bank, Washington, DC
The World Bank Art Collection, Washington, DC
Metropolitan Transit Authority, New York
Banco del Café, Guatemala City, Guatemala
The Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
The Robert Blackburn Print Collection, New York
Kathy Caraccio Print Collection, New York
Voluntariado de las Casas Reales, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
US Embassy, Permanent Collection, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
Selected Honors and Awards |
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2023 |
Grand Prize, XXX
National Biennial of Visual Arts, Museo de Arte Moderno |
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2013 |
Grand Prize,
International Drawing Biennial, Palace of Fine Arts, Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic |
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2007 |
Fellowship, Mural
Workshop, National Academy Museum and School of Design, New York |
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2003 |
Fellowship, Works on
Paper, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York
Special Guest for Latin America, International Printmaking Biennial,
Varna, Belgium |
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2002 |
Commission, Fine
Art Poster Program, Metropolitan Transit Authority, New York |
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2001 |
Honorable Mention,
XIII Latin American and Caribbean Print Biennial, San Juan,
Puerto
Rico |
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2000 |
Grand Prize, XVIII
E. Leon Jimenes Biennial, Dominican Republic |
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1998 |
Silver Palette,
XXX ème Festival International de la Peinture, Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France
First Prize, Drawing, XVII E. Leon Jimenes Biennial, Dominican
Republic |
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1997-98 |
Artist-in-Residence
Fellowship, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York |
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1997 |
Special Guest, XII
Latin American and Caribbean Print Biennial, San Juan, Puerto Rico |
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1996 |
First Prize,
Printmaking, XX National Visual Arts Biennial, Museum of Modern Art, Santo
Domingo, Dominican Republic
Fellowship, Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
Acquisition Prize, Barcelo Foundation, Santo Domingo, Dominican
Republic |
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1994 |
Fellowship, The
Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, New York
First Prize, Printmaking, XIX National Visual Arts Biennial, Museum
of Modern Art, Santo
Domingo, Dominican Republic
Special Guest, II Painting Biennial of the Caribbean and Latin
America, Museum Modern
Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican
Republic |
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