Jina Valentine

Jina Valentine (born 1979 in Berwyn, Pennsylvania) is a contemporary American visual artist whose uses text as a mnemonic device, exploring nostalgia for the future.[1]

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.[2]

Career

Jina Valentine is based in North Carolina, where she is an Assistant Professor of Art at UNC Chapel Hill. She has exhibited at venues including The Drawing Center,[3] The Studio Museum in Harlem,[4] the CUE Foundation,[5] the Elizabeth Foundation,[6] Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Fleisher-Ollman Gallery[7] and Marlborough Gallery.[8]

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.

She has received numerous awards for her work including a Joan Mitchell MFA Grant, and a San Francisco Arts Commission Fellowship.

Valentine co-founded The Black Lunch Table[9] with artist, Heather Hart in 2005. The ongoing project creates an oral archive, salons and Wikipedia edit-a-thons.

References

  1. ↑ "The Bearden Project". The Studio Museum in Harlem. Retrieved 2015-10-07.
  2. ↑ "Jina Valentine". US Department of State. Retrieved 2015-10-07.
  3. ↑ "The Intuitionists". The Drawing Center. Retrieved 2015-10-07.
  4. ↑ "Where Issues of Black Identity Meet the Concerns of Every Artist". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-10-07.
  5. ↑ "CUE Art Foundation: The JOAN MITCHELL FOUNDATION 2009 MFA GRANT RECIPIENTS SHOW". re-title International Contemporary Art. Retrieved 2015-10-07.
  6. ↑ "IN RESIDENCE: Recent Projects from Sculpture Space". The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. Retrieved 2015-10-07.
  7. ↑ "A confident one-woman show Jina Valentine's eclectic and prolific work graces Fleisher/Ollman.". Philly.com. Retrieved 2015-10-07.
  8. ↑ "Natural Renditions". Marlborough Gallery. Retrieved 2015-10-07.
  9. ↑ "Tonight at MoMA: Updating Wikipedia’s Archive of Contemporary Black Artists". ArtFCity. Retrieved 2015-10-07.
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