Jina Valentine Explained

Jina Valentine
Birth Date:9 November 1979
Birth Place:Berwyn, Pennsylvania
Nationality:American
Alma Mater:Stanford University
University of Pennsylvania, California College of the Arts

Jina Valentine (born November 9, 1979, in Berwyn, Pennsylvania) is a contemporary American visual artist whose work is informed by the techniques and strategies of American folk artists. She uses a variety of media to weave histories—including drawing, papermaking, found-object collage, and radical archiving.[1] [2]

Education

Valentine received an MFA from Stanford University after studying at University of Pennsylvania and California College of the Arts. She received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and also studied in France at the Lacoste School.[3]

Career

Valentine is based in Chicago, where she is an Assistant Professor of Printmedia at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[4] Previously, she was an Assistant Professor of Art at UNC Chapel Hill. Valentine has exhibited at venues including The Drawing Center,[5] the Studio Museum in Harlem,[6] the CUE Foundation,[7] the Elizabeth Foundation,[8] Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Fleisher-Ollman Gallery,[9] Marlborough Gallery,[10] Ogilvy Gallery, and 21C Museum Hotel (Durham, North Carolina).[11]

She has participated in residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Women's Studio Workshop, Sculpture Space, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Santa Fe Art Institute, and the Cité internationale des arts in Paris.

In 2011, Valentine published Ticket to the Unknown, a translation the works of Swiss outsider artist Aloise Corbaz.[12] The book was published as part of Steffani Jemison's Future Plan and Program, a project to publish literary works by visual artists of color.[13]

She has received a Joan Mitchell MFA Grant,[14] a San Francisco Arts Commission Fellowship,[15] and a Creative Capital Emerging Fields Award.[16] Her art has also been featured on the cover of Southern Cultures, Summer 2015.[17] [18]

Valentine co-founded Black Lunch Table[19] with artist Heather Hart in 2005.[20] The ongoing project creates an oral archive,[21] salons and Wikipedia edit-a-thons.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jina Valentine Art Department. art.unc.edu. en-US. 2017-03-11. 2017-06-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20170609203935/http://art.unc.edu/studio-art/studio-art-faculty/jina-valentine/. dead.
  2. Web site: The Bearden Project . The Studio Museum in Harlem . 2015-10-07 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150424142509/http://thebeardenproject.studiomuseum.org/jina-valentine/ . 2015-04-24 .
  3. Web site: Jina Valentine. US Department of State. 2015-10-07. 2016-03-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304185351/http://art.state.gov/ArtistDetail.aspx?id=103876. dead.
  4. Web site: jvalen3. School of the Art Institute of Chicago. en. 2019-04-18.
  5. Web site: The Intuitionists. The Drawing Center. 2015-10-07.
  6. Web site: Where Issues of Black Identity Meet the Concerns of Every Artist. The New York Times. 2015-10-07.
  7. Web site: CUE Art Foundation: The JOAN MITCHELL FOUNDATION 2009 MFA GRANT RECIPIENTS SHOW. re-title International Contemporary Art. 2015-10-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20130818180118/http://re-title.com/exhibitions/archive_CUEArtFoundation8421.asp. 2013-08-18. dead.
  8. Web site: IN RESIDENCE: Recent Projects from Sculpture Space. The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. 2015-10-07.
  9. Web site: A confident one-woman show Jina Valentine's eclectic and prolific work graces Fleisher/Ollman.. Philly.com. 2015-10-07.
  10. Web site: Natural Renditions. Marlborough Gallery. 2015-10-07. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304031649/http://www.marlboroughgallery.com/exhibitions/natural-renditions. 2016-03-04.
  11. News: Exhibition Opening: Forms and Functions: Jina Valentine and Jaydan Moore - 21c Durham. 21c Durham. 2017-04-20. en-US.
  12. Book: Valentine, Jina. Ticket to the unknown. 2011-01-01. Future Plan And Program. 978-0983381501. United States. 785081724. en.
  13. Web site: TICKET TO THE UNKNOWN Future Plan and Program. futureplanandprogram.com. en-US. 2017-03-11.
  14. Web site: Joan Mitchell Foundation . Joan Mitchell Foundation . 3 January 2017.
  15. Web site: IMMEDIATE FUTURE: The 2008 Murphy and Cadogan Fellowships in the Fine Arts . SF arts commission . 3 January 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160426164515/http://www.sfartscommission.org/gallery/2010/immediate-future-the-2008-murphy-and-cadogan-fellowships-in-the-fine-arts/ . 26 April 2016 . dead .
  16. Web site: Creative Capital Announces 2016 Awardees in Emerging Fields, Literature, and Performing Arts ARTnews. www.artnews.com. 12 January 2016 . en-US. 2017-04-20.
  17. News: Vol. 21, No. 2: Summer 2015 - Southern Cultures. Southern Cultures. 2017-04-20. en-US.
  18. 2016-01-31. Jina Valentine. Southern Cultures. 21. 4. 123–124. 10.1353/scu.2015.0049. 1534-1488.
  19. Web site: Tonight at MoMA: Updating Wikipedia's Archive of Contemporary Black Artists. ArtFCity. 13 July 2015 . 2015-10-07.
  20. News: Jene-Fagon. Olivia. Yoshi Tani. Ellen. Why Are All the Black Artists Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?. Artsy. 3 January 2017.
  21. Institute for the Arts & Humanities Podcast.

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