Rvalado@gmail.com
Education
1989 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
1989 CUNY, Queens College, BFA Honors; Art History Minor Independent study and research: World Sacred Architecture; Art & Community
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 “Migrations”, King Manor Museum, Jamaica, Queens, NY
2022 “Gateway”, King Manor Museum, Jamaica, Queens, NY
2019 “Re-membering” Brooklyn Army Terminal, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Front Room Gallery Outdoor Projects, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009 “28 Solo Projects” Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark, NJ
2006 “Octagon - Transition Between Heaven and Earth”; City Hall, Utica, NY
2004 “Untitled”, Spoonbill & Sugartown, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
2003 “Neighborhood Weave”, community project for the Williamsburg Bridge Centennial celebration, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
2003 “Henry Street Settlement Senior Center” Public Art Project, HSS, NYC
2000 - 2002 “Drew Garden - Shell Project Sanctuary”, Bronx, NY
1999 “Shell & Shell”; Community Borders project on the banks of the Zalzach, Austria and Germany.
1999 “Shell Project - New York Documentation” Gallerie 5020, Zalzburg, Austria
1999 “Two Half Circles” UFO Technologies, Brooklyn, NY
1999 “Wall of Ribbons”, site-specific public art project with students; Bronx Council on The Arts, Bronx, NY
1999 “Shell Project - New York” Rooftop public art installation; Brooklyn, NY
1998 “What Does It Mean To Be Where You Are?” outdoor public art installation, McCarren Park, Brooklyn, NY
1998 “Steps VII” Street performance with LIU students, Brooklyn, NY
1996 “Steps VI” Street performance from 338 Berry Street to Courthouse Gallery, Antholology Film Archives, NYC
1996 “Inside a Small Space” installation at Courthouse Gallery, Anthology Film Archives, NYC
1996 “Steps V” Street performance from Courthouse Gallery NYC to 338 Berry St Brooklyn, NY
1995 “Round Table” performance, Brooklyn, NY
1995 “Steps IV” Street performance from 338 Berry St to Brooklyn War Memorial Brooklyn, NY
1995 “Steps III” Street performance from Brooklyn War Memorial to 338 Berry St Brooklyn, NY
1995 “Steps II” Street performance on North Brooklyn streets, Brooklyn NY
1994 “Steps I” Installation and performance at 338 Berry St, Brooklyn NY
1992 “The Earth Is Dying” Multimedia installation, Herron Test-Site, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
1991 “Forest For The Trees” Site-specific installation at the Prospect Park Boathouse, Brooklyn, NY
1990 “Under The Bridge” Outdoor 12 hr performance and installation Prospect Park, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Onaphonism, Flux Factory at Governer’s Island, NY
2023 Library, Tappeto Volante, Brooklyn, NY
2022 The Flag Project at Rockefeller Center, NY
2022 Among Friends; NYAE Gallery, NY
2022 NYAE Benefit exhibition, Clemente Center, NY
2022 “Loveland” curated by Glenn Goldberg for Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Skowhegan Alumni exhibition, Skowhegan, ME
2020 USPS collaborative projects: InLiquid, PA;
2020 Sunset Art Studios, TX; Art Gym, CO.
2020 “20/20 Vision” Holland Tunnel Gallery, Newburgh, NY
2020 “8”x 8” “ SFA Projects, New York, NY
2019 “Access Art”, M.David & Co. Contemporary
2019 Gallery group exhibition, David & Schwitzer Contemporary
2018 “Spring Break” Art Fair; New York City
2018 “From Painting to Sculpture” David & Schwitzer Contemporary, Bushwick, Brooklyn NY
2018 “Yellow Chair Extravaganza” David & Schwitzer Contemporary Bushwick Brooklyn NY
2018 “Sideshow Nation” Sideshow Gallery; Brooklyn NY
2017 “The Bedford Art Show” Bedford NY
2017 “Sideshow Nation” Annual, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2016 “Making History” Book launch and exhibition, David & Schwitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn NY
2016 “Surface Works” Real Art Ways, Hartford CT
2016 Centtoto Invitational, Bushwick Brooklyn, NY
2016 “Sideshow Nation” Annual Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2015 “Paperazzi III”, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2015 “Making History”, Storefront TenEyck, Brooklyn NY
2015 “Circle The Wagons”, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2014 “WG Benefit Exhibition”, Rough Lux and 188 Broadway, Brooklyn NY
2014 “Fifteenth Year Anniversary”, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2014 “Paperazzi II”, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2014 “Sideshow Nation II”, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2013 “A Fine Line”, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2013 “Nexxt”, Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Paramus NJ
2013 “Sideshow Nation I”, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2013 “Paperazzi I”, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2013 “Rema Hort Mann Foundation Benefit”, Bleeker Street Art Center, NYC
2012 “Mic:Check”, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2011 “Verge / Brooklyn Art Now”, curated by Loren Munk, Dumbo, NY
2011 “It’s All Good - Apocalypse Now” Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2010 “Bring To Light”, Greenpoint Waterfront, Brooklyn, NY
2010 “Crestfest”, Crest Hardware, Brooklyn NY
2010 “Sideshow Annual”, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2010 “Golden Blueprints”, W+G Gallery, Brooilyn NY
2009 “Whitebox Benefit”, Whitebox Gallery, NYC
2009 “The Fountain - Miami Art”, Grace Performance Space in Miami, FL
2009 “Crestfest”, Crest Hardware, Brooklyn NY
2009 “Sideshow Annual”, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2009 “Viewing Room”, Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark NJ
2009 “Visionary Architecture” included in Matt Bua’s book project
2008 “Boson Exotic”, Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark NJ
2008 “Sideshow Annual”, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2007 “Intersections” Installation and performances, Abrons Art Center, NYC
2007 “WAGMAG Benefit”, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2007 “Sideshow Annual”, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2006 “Works In Progress”, Sculpture Space, Utica, NY
2006 “Small Works”, Resonance Center, Utica, NY
2006 “Sideshow Annual”, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2005 “Poles Apart Poles Together” parallel project with 51st Venice Biennale
2005 “Waves of Light”, Pocketbook Factory, Hudson NY
2005 “Sideshow Annual”, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2004 “Benefit Show”, White Columns, NYC
2004 “Famiglia”, Ciao Bella, Brooklyn NY
2004 “Sideshow Annual”, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2003 “Jonas Mekas/Rosa Valado” two person show, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn
2003 “Sideshow Annual”, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2002 “Life of the City” Museum of Modern Art, NYC
2002 “Artist to Artist”, Alum of Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, ACE Gallery NYC
2002 “Postcards From The Edge”, Sperone Westwater, NYC
2002 “Sideshow Annual”, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2002 “A.I.R. at Henry Street”, Open studios, Abrons Art Center, NYC
2002 “Reaction”, Exit Art, NYC
2002 “The Flag Show”, Abrons Art Center, NYC
2001 “Night of a Thousand Drawings”, Artist’s Space, NYC
2001 “Sideshow Annual”, Sideshow Gallery, Broolyn NY
2001 “Postcards From The Edge”, Sara Meltzer Gallery, NYC
2001 “Made In Brooklyn”, S. Cono Pizzeria, Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY
2001 “Women Ecoartists” Ecoart Symposium, JFK University, Berkely, CA
2001 “21 Suffragettes”, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2000 “Artists of the Courthouse Gallery”, M&A Gallery, Haag, Holland
1999 “Friends and Artists of the Courthouse Gallery”, Anthology Film Archives
1999 “Outside Parsing In”, The Cave, Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY
1998 “Signs, Forms, Systems Converging”, Williamsburg Waterfront, Brooklyn, NY
1998 “Visions and Dreams”, No Ordinary Joe’s, Redbank, NJ
1998 “Skowhegan Alumni Exhibition”, David Beitzel Gallery, NY
1997 “Small Works”, Brooklyn Brewery, Williamsburg BK, NY
1995 “Conflict / Resolution”, Brooklyn War Memorial, BK, NY
1994 “Small Works”, Sculpture Center, NYC
1994 “9 For 94”, One Main Street, DUMBO, BK NY
1994 “Gone To Pieces”, Kentler Int’l Drawing Center, BK, NY
1992 “Mating of The Spiders”, Herron Test-Site, Williamsburg BK, NY
1992 “Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Artists”, Open Studios, NYC
1991 “Flytrap” performance event on the Williamsburg Waterfront, BK, NY
1990 “Invitational”, Minor Injury, Williamsburg, BK, NY
1989 “7-Up and Coming”, Kenkeleba Gallery, LES, NYC
1989 “Production and Progression”, Kampo Cultural Center, NYC Grants,
Fellowships & Residencies
2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants
2022 Queens Council on the Arts grant
2021 Skowhegan Alumni Summer residency
2021 Citi Artists Corps Grants
2016 Chashama Studio Space Program
2014 Virginia Center For The Creative Arts (VCCA)
2014 NARS Foundation 2009 Virginia Center For The Creative Arts (VCCA)
2008 Max’s Kansas City Artist Grant
2007 Virginia Center For The Creative Arts (VCCA)
2007 O’Halloran Foundation
2006 O’Halloran Foundation
2006 Sculpture Space, funded residency & artist fellowship
2005 Pollock-Krasner Foundation
2005 Foundation for Contemporary Arts, exhibition grant
2005 Camargo Foundation funded residency
2005 Columbia County On The Arts (Hudson, NY)
2005 O’Halloran Foundation
2004 The George Sugarman Foundation
2004 O’Halloran Foundation
2004 Change Inc.
2003 O’Halloran Foundation
2002 Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Art Center, residency
1999 Nancy H. Gray Foundation For Art In The Environment
1999 Bronx Council On The Arts (MAPS)
1999 The Citizens’ Committee of New York
1998 The Jerome Foundation
1998 The Nancy H. Gray Foundation For Art In The Environment
1998 The Brooklyn Arts Council
1998 Funded research: Romanesque & Gothic sacred architecture France & Spain
1997 The Virginia Center For The Creative Arts (VCCA)
1996 The Virginia Center For The Creative Arts (VCCA)
1994 Brooklyn Arts Council
1994 Yaddo Artist Residency
1993 Sculpture Space funded residency
1991 Yaddo Artist Residency
1991 The Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Space Grant
1989 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture full scholarship, Maine
1989 Artists’ Space Exhibition Grant
1988 Chautauqua Artist Residency, fully funded; Chautauqua, NY
1987 Caumsett State Park Artist Residency, fully funded; LI, NY
Bibliography
-The Flag Project, 2022 catalogue at Rockefeller Center, May 2022
-Art Spiel – Among Friends @ Equity Gallery, May, 2022
-Art Spiel - Interview, “Rosa Valado: How Are You Coping”, April, 2020
-Art Spiel - Interview, “Rosa Valado: The Feeling of a Space”, Oct.14, 2019
-Making History - Bushwick, the book, 2016
-Jeff Mann,“Rosa Valado at Front Room”, Greenpoint Gazette, BK, 2013
-Hrag, “On Brooklyn Art Now”, Hyperallergic, March 2011
-Hegert, Natalie “Wandering in Dumbo- Verge Artbrooklyn”, 111 Front St., BK 2011
-Bua, Matt, “Visionary Drawings”, book and on-line publication www.drawingbuilding.org/worship, 2009
-Kalm, J. “Williamsburg Galleries”, Brooklyn Rail, March 2007
-Kotik, Charlotta, “The Book” Sculpture Space residency artists selection Catalogue, 2007, p.45-47
-”Sculpture Space Newsletter” vol.6 no.1, 2007-2008 Rosa Valado Bibliography
-Hall, Theesa, “Artist Aims to Create a Healing Memorial”; Observer Dispatch, Utica, NY
-Fulton, R. & Dancy, D. “Area Raises 9.11 Tributes”, Utica Phoenix, Utica NY October 2006; Vol.4.10
-Dellecese, David, “Utica’s Sculpture Space”; Observer Dispatch, Utica NY June 11, 2006, 2F
-Dellecese, David, “Sculpture Space”; Utica Penny Saver, Utica NY June 8, 2006, pg. 1-2
-”Poles Apart Poles Together”, 51st Venice Biennale; outdoor installation Brochure, 2005
-51.International Exhibition, Venice Biennale; Collateral Events, main catalogue, 2005
-”The World Comes to Columbia County; Hudson ArtWalk’, Arts Alive 2005 Columbia County NY, 2005
-Halasz, Piri, “Something for Everyone”, New York Arts Newsletter, Jan. 2005
-NYSCA/Alliance of Artists Communities, “Engaging Communities”, 2004, pgs. 22-23
-Longhi, Tommasio, “Jonas Mekas / Rosa Valado”, The Brooklyn Rail, June-July 2003
-Smith, Roberta “Artists to Artists”, The New York Times, Fri. May 24, 2002
-”Artists to Artists”, Art in America, June 2002
-”Artists to Artists”, The New Yorker, June 3, 2002
-”Artists to Artists, A Decade of The Space Program”, exhibition catalogue Ace Gallery, NY 2002, pg. 48-49
-Halasz, Piri, “An Appropriate Distance”, The Mayor’s Doorstep newsletter, December 2002.
-Cotter, Holland, “Amidst the Ashes, Creativity: Across the City Reactions to September 11. The New York Times, Fri., Feb. 1, 2002, Weekend Pgs.
-Biederman, Marcia, “Sculpture With a Purpose Enhances a Public Garden”. New York Times, Sunday, January 16, 2000, CY 11
-Pichler, Erika, “Shell & Shell” Interview, Salzburg TV, Cable TW1
-Weingartner, Christian, “EuRegio
-Symposion am Salzachdamm: Publikum Rosa Valado Bibliography Miteinbezogen”, Zalzburger Nachrichten, Lokalteil, Jul.31, 1999 Weingartner, Christian, “EuRegio
-Symposion am Salzachdamm”, Flachgauer Nachrichten, July 29, 1999.
-”Shell & Shell Project” ORF Salzburg radio interview, July 28, 1999.
-Weingartner, Christian, “EuRegio Symposion 1999” Pro Fachxxxgau, July, 1999 .
-”Sommersymposion 1999” TRAFO Newsletter, Gallery 5020, Salzburg, July 1999.
-Lee, Chris, “NAG Festival” Waterfront Weekly, August 1998.
-”W.A.F.E. Festival on the Environment” Greenpoint Gazette, August 12, 1998 p.15
-Fisher, Sarah, “Festival for a Small Planet” Waterfront Weekly, July 2, 1998.
-Channel 2 evening news report by Molly Falconer, on Artists and the Environment, June 19, 1998.
-Voice Choices, Acts, Village Voice, April 1996.
-”On The Street” Brooklyn Bridge Magazine, 1996, p.13.
-Boletin Cultural, Spanish Consulate; Listings, March 1996.
-Boletin Cultural, Spanish Consulate; Listings, April 1996.
-Voice Choices; Acts, Village Voice, November 14, 1995, p.16.
-”Art Points The Way to Peace” Park Slope Courier, September 1995.
-”Steps I” Greenline, Spring 1995.
-Sanchez, Cesar, “Art in Progress - A Youth Project” Greenline, September 1994.
-Caldwell, Luisa, “Rosa Valado at Test-Site” Greenline, May 1992, p.16.
-Webber, Diane, “Space-An Artist’s Frontier” Downtown Express, Nov. 1991, p.6.
-Wachunas, Tom, “It’s a Day for Art In The Park” The Phoenix, August 1990.
Teaching/Workshops
Long Island University 1996-1997
Abroms Art Center 2002 The Door H. S. 2008
Bronx Schools through Bronx Council on the Arts 1998
El Puente through Brooklyn Arts Council 1993
Curatorial
Greenpoint Film Festival 2011 -2019
Woven Spaces, Inc. 1 1996-present
Selected Panels & Lectures
Jerome Foundation 2019 Henry Street Settlement 2002
Syracuse University 1993 Hamilton College 2007
Collections
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
U.S. National Archives, Washington DC
Ms. Patricia Wynne-Evans
Anthology Film Archives, NYC
Mr. Victor Sanchez, NY
Dr. Nicole Celentano, Armonk, NY
Mr. Jonas Mekas, NYC
Mr. & Mrs. Valado, Long Island NY
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Ms. Oona Mekas, NYC
Ms. Winefred Wager, NYC
Ms. Hollis Melton, NY
Ms. Ilana Wingfield, AZ The O’Halloran Foundation
Ms. Patricia Wynne-Evans, NY
Ms. Susan Unterberg, NYC
Ms. Claudia Burros, NYC