Jina Valentine

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]

Jina Valentine
Born (1979-11-09) November 9, 1979
Berwyn, Pennsylvania
NationalityAmerican
Alma materStanford University
University of Pennsylvania, California College of Art

Education

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

Career

Jina 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. She 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).[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, she 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 The 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.

References
  1. "Jina Valentine | Art Department". art.unc.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  2. "The Bearden Project". The Studio Museum in Harlem. Archived from the original on 2015-04-24. Retrieved 2015-10-07.
  3. "Jina Valentine". US Department of State. Retrieved 2015-10-07.
  4. "jvalen3". School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 2019-04-18.
  5. "The Intuitionists". The Drawing Center. Retrieved 2015-10-07.
  6. "Where Issues of Black Identity Meet the Concerns of Every Artist". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-10-07.
  7. "CUE Art Foundation: The JOAN MITCHELL FOUNDATION 2009 MFA GRANT RECIPIENTS SHOW". re-title International Contemporary Art. Archived from the original on 2013-08-18. Retrieved 2015-10-07.
  8. "IN RESIDENCE: Recent Projects from Sculpture Space". The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. Retrieved 2015-10-07.
  9. "A confident one-woman show Jina Valentine's eclectic and prolific work graces Fleisher/Ollman". Philly.com. Retrieved 2015-10-07.
  10. "Natural Renditions". Marlborough Gallery. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-10-07.
  11. "Exhibition Opening: Forms and Functions: Jina Valentine and Jaydan Moore - 21c Durham". 21c Durham. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
  12. Valentine, Jina (2011-01-01). Ticket to the unknown. United States: Future Plan And Program. ISBN 978-0983381501. OCLC 785081724.
  13. "TICKET TO THE UNKNOWN | Future Plan and Program". futureplanandprogram.com. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  14. "Joan Mitchell Foundation". Joan Mitchell Foundation. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  15. "IMMEDIATE FUTURE: The 2008 Murphy and Cadogan Fellowships in the Fine Arts". SF arts commission. Archived from the original on 26 April 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  16. "Creative Capital Announces 2016 Awardees in Emerging Fields, Literature, and Performing Arts | ARTnews". www.artnews.com. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
  17. "Vol. 21, No. 2: Summer 2015 - Southern Cultures". Southern Cultures. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
  18. "Jina Valentine". Southern Cultures. 21 (4): 123–124. 2016-01-31. doi:10.1353/scu.2015.0049. ISSN 1534-1488.
  19. "Tonight at MoMA: Updating Wikipedia's Archive of Contemporary Black Artists". ArtFCity. Retrieved 2015-10-07.
  20. Jene-Fagon, Olivia; Yoshi Tani, Ellen (3 January 2017). "Why Are All the Black Artists Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?". Artsy.
  21. Institute for the Arts & Humanities Podcast. Episode 31: Jina Valentine & Black Lunch Table, retrieved 2017-04-20
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