Julio Valdez

Julio Valdez is a painter, printmaker, teacher and mixed installation artist whose work has been exhibited internationally since 1984. He received a fellowship from the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in 1994 and founded Julio Valdez Studio, specializing in Non-toxic Contemporary Printmaking processes the same year.

He received his first museum exhibition at the Omar Rayo Museum in Colombia in 1988. His work received prizes at the 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996 and 1998 national biennials at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Santo Domingo, as well as numerous prestigious international awards, including an Artist-in-Residence Fellowship at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City in 1997-98, the Silver Palette for Painting at the XXX International Painting Festival, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France in 1998, the Grand Prize at the XVII E. Leon Jimenez Biennal in the Dominican Republic in 2000, among others.

In 2003, he received a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship and held a solo exhibition at the Organization of American States in Washington, DC. In 2005, he was nominated to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and included at the Library of Congress collection. In 2007, he received a Fellowship from the National Academ...

1994-95 Printmaking with Robert Blackburn and Kathy Caraccio, New York

1986-88 Fine Arts/Illustration, The Altos de Chavόn School of Design, La Romana, Dominican Republic, affiliated with Parsons School of Design, New York

1984-86 National School of Fine Arts, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

2018 Art on Paper, Pier 36, New York City
2018 Affordable Art Fair, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York
Julio Valdez Studio has been a regular exhibitor at this fair since 2005.

Julio has presented 30 solo exhibitions internationally since 1989, most recently:

2018 Recent Work, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington DC
2017 Dreams and Reflections, June Kelly Gallery, New York

2014 Para Soñar el Sol (In Order to Dream the Sun): New Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York

2013 Julio Valdez: Recent Paintings, Latin American Masters, Santa Monica, CA

2012-2013 Nature: Prints, Drawings and Mixed Media, curated by Graciela Kartofel, The Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT; catalog

2012 Nature: Prints, Drawings and Mixed Media, curated by Graciela Kartofel, The Arsenal Gallery, The Arsenal in Central Park, New York; catalog

Julio Valdez: Selected Work, King Street Gallery, Montgomery College, MD

2010 In the Same Path as the Sun: New Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York