Born 1983, Mexico City
Valerie is a self-taught artist born in Mexico City and raised in Los Angeles. She has lived and exhibited her work around the world, including Mexico, China, Indonesia, Canada, France, Belgium, Spain and the United States. Her work has been selected for several notable competitions and biennials, and she has been awarded several international residencies. She is currently a member of the National System of Art Creators (Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte SNCA) fellowship in Mexico City, and was awarded by the Fund for Culture and the Arts (Fondo para la Cultura y las Artes FONCA), young creators 2014-2015. The Lawrence Arts Center KC, 2014-2015. The Xu Yuan Press Center, Beijing (China) 2013-2014. Red Gate Gallery, 2013. Banff Centre (Canada), 2011.
Her most recent works are part of her non-figurative repertoire, whose fascination lies in the various layers of lines. It seems that the resonances of her earlier series have been rediscovered. Polysemy emerges through incessant metamorphoses, which play with the body, the fusion of symbols and space. Consistent and elusive forms created from the concurrence of depth and surface, rhythms that emerge as memo
