Valerie Perreault

Valerie Perreault is a visual artist and poet. Born into a military family in New Jersey, she grew up in Wisconsin and Illinois. She graduated from the Art Institute, worked in Austin and Boston, lived some years aboard a sailboat, and has settled in the Florida Keys.

In 2016, while living aboard her sailboat on an island just north of Key West she opened a small art gallery in a sandy wood shack about 100 steps from the ocean. It was called Portside Gallery (she's left handed and the port side is the left side of a boat). It was there that she began selling her block prints to locals and lost tourists. She sold the gallery in 2020 but her art continues to grow and lives on in private collections across the globe.

Her work has been featured in GOOP, Hia Magazine, Buzzfeed and PBS Art Loft, among others. She also has permanent installations in high-end resorts and public spaces including The South Beach Ritz Carlton, Tommie Austin, Intercontinental Miami, Casa Marina Resort Key West, Hotel St. Elm, Hawks Cay Resort, the Port of San Diego, Parkline Miami, and on Royal Caribbean's, Star of the Seas. Also, about two times a year, she shows her new works at art galleries.

The old Portside shack is still there, and owned now by ...

The Art Institute

2024

Solo Show / XOJ Gallery at The Studios of Key West, Key West, Florida

Group Show / “Summer Palette” Florida Keys History and Discovery Center, Islamorada, Florida

2023

Group Show / “Living in Harmony,” The Historic Gato Gallery, Key West, Florida

Group Show / Jessica Ann Gallery, Islamorada, Florida

Solo Show / “Fragments from the Island Haze”
New Studio for the Visual Arts, Jupiter, Florida

Solo Show / “Island Déjà Vu”
Roberto Russell Galleries, Islamorada, Florida

Group Show / Superfine! Art Fair, Miami, Florida

2022

Group Show / Saatchi Art: The Other Art Fair, Virtual Edition, May – June

Group Show / “Personal Structures,” ECC, Venice, Italy

2021

Group Show / “Dazzling Horizons”
The Historic Gato Building, Key West, Florida

Solo Show / “Tropi-Soul,” Portside Gallery, Islamorada, Florida

2020

Solo Show / “Jungle Bird, 20 Letters to September”
Roberto Russell Galleries, Islamorada, Florida

Group Show / Saatchi Art: The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, New York

2017 – 2020

Resident Morada Way Arts and Cultural District, Islamorada, Florida