Artist Rosa Valado is a Spanish-born, American artist. She studied at Escuela de Artes y Oficios, Madrid, CUNY Queens College NY (‘89), and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine (‘89, ‘21). She holds a BFA with academic and department honors, a minor in Art History (‘89), and has conducted extensive independent research through study and travel in the areas of art, architecture and communities.
Valado’s work has been supported by grants and fellowships – among them: Foundation for Contemporary Art (‘22), Queens Council on the Arts (‘22), The O’Halloran Foundation (‘07, ‘08, ‘09), The Pollock-Krasner Foundation (‘05), The George Sugarman Foundation (‘04), The Jerome Foundation (‘98), The Nancy H. Gray Foundation (‘98,’99), The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation (‘91-‘92), The Brooklyn Arts Council (‘94), The Bronx Council on the Arts MAPS (‘99), as well as numerous private foundations. She has received residencies and fellowships from The Camargo Foundation (‘05), The Abrams Art Center (‘01), Yaddo (‘91,’94), The Virginia Center for The Creative Arts (‘96,’97,’07,’09, 14), and Sculpture Space (‘92,’06).
Rosa Valado’s public art projects include Gateway at King Manor Museum (‘22), The Flag Project at Rockefeller Center (‘22), Hope Street Public Art through Front Room Gallery (‘14); participation in Poles Apart Poles Together at the 51st Venice Biennale co-lateral projects (‘05); WTC Memorial at City Hall in Utica, NY (‘06); several architectural models and installations along the Williamsburg, Brooklyn Waterfront (‘98,’99) featured on Channel 2 news and funded by the Nancy H. Gray Foundation; a borders project sponsored by KNIE/Gallerie 5020 (Salzburg), “Shell & Shell” on the banks of the Salzaach River, involving communities in Austria & Germany, received extensive coverage on Austrian T.V., newspapers, and radio. In the Bronx, sponsored by the Jerome Foundation, The Shell Sanctuary at Drew Garden by the Bronx River served for several years as part of the West Farms Community and Drew Garden educational project and received wide coverage in the Sunday section of The New York Times.
Valado also shows regularly in galleries, locally and internationally, including The King Manor Museum, Queens, NY; David and Schwitzer, Brooklyn, NY; Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Janet Kurnotowski, NY; ACE Gallery NYC; The Sculpture Center, NY; Anthology Film Archives, NYC; Rupert Ravens Contemporary, NJ; Gallerie 5020, Salzburg; M&A Gallerie, Haag; and Herron Test-Site, Brooklyn, NY.
Rosa was founder and director of The Greenpoint Film Festival from 2011-2019; a social practice project and a platform for film and activism. The festival was produced by Woven Spaces, a non-profit arts organization which she founded in 1996 which continues to function and present community art projects world-wide. Rosa has taught classes and workshops at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus, The Abrams Art Center, Henry Street Settlement, NYC, at Bronx schools through The Bronx Council on The Arts’ MAPS program, and at The Door, an alternative High School in Manhattan.