Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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RESUME
Renée Valenti is a multidisciplinary artist whose studio practice includes painting, photography, and writing. Most recently, she has been painting saturated abstract paintings that draw from the figure and another body of work that focuses on interior spaces and objects from her home. Valenti has exhibited at venues in the U.S. such as The Sarah Ball Allis Art Museum (the renamed Charles Allis Art Museum), Anita Rogers Gallery, The Whitney Museum, and The Amarillo Museum of Art. In 2019, Valenti curated and organized DISARM, a group show and benefit for Gays Against Guns, held at Automatic Studios in DUMBO. She received a grant from the Mayer Foundation for a photo project along Route 66 and has been an artist in residence at Main Street Arts and Lacawac Artist Residency. In 2022, she was included in the White Columns Curated Artist Registry, White Columns, New York. Born in New Haven, CT, Valenti received an MFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from Pratt Institute. Valenti is an Adjunct Professor at Capital Community College in CT and has held teaching positions at Quinnipiac University in Rowan College. She lives and works in Philadelphia.
reneevalentistudio@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2016 MFA, Studio Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2012 BFA, Painting and Art History, Pratt Institute
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2019 DISARM, group show and benefit for Gays Against Guns, Automatic Studios, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Let's Get Critical, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Sarah Ball Allis Art Museum, Charles Allis Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Ukraine Relief Benefit, Anita Rogers Gallery, New York, NY
2021 New Normal, Payne Gallery, Bethlehem, PA
2019 Artist in Residence Alumni Exhibition, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY
2017 The Whitney Biennial, physical artwork hung in participation with Occupy Museums, New York, NY
2016 High Plains Highways, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, Texas
JCAST, Pacific Avenue Industrial Park, Jersey City, NJ
MFA Thesis Exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, IL
Dream Catcher, Club 157, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Re-Picturing Photography, Union Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Sound and Fury, Chandler Gallery, Randolph, Vermont
Not at the Beach, Sharp Studio, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Echoes of Chicago, Subterra, Chicago, IL
Art Round Trip, Rogers Park Arts Alliance, Chicago, IL
Grace Period, Friday Studio Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Curated group exhibit by Bonnie Rychlak, Pratt Institute
2011 (2 person show) Convergence, curated by Nikkie McLeod, Fort Useless, Brooklyn, NY
OTHER
2022 White Columns Curated Artist Registry, New York, NY
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2022 Artist in Residence, ArteSumapaz, Cundinamaraca, Colombia (January 1-January 31)
2017 Artist in Residence, Main Street Arts, Clifton, NY (October 1-October 30)
Scholarship and residency, Lacawac Sanctuary, Lake Ariel, PA (May 7-May 21)
2016 Grant for travel-based photo and writing project, The Mayer Foundation
2015 Ox-Bow, Saugatuck, MI (January 2-15)
2014 Writing Fellowship, SAIC
Dean’s Scholarship, SAIC