Juliana Valentim

I have been producing art for more than 20 years, experimenting several types of media, scale, styles. I have a background in design, architecture, urban planning, portuguese language literature, landscape architecture and have large professional experience in each one of these areas.

After this long period of maturation and influence of several areas, I found myself as the bridge between conception and materialization, coming from the most theoretical inspiration to the most polished final product.
I produce high-end notebooks in varied techniques of bookmaking, collage, original design for tattoos and watercolor paintings.

I created the persona Nana Blythe as a way to express, connect and build with freedom this bridge between the intangibilities that are only mine, silent and still, to the sensible world that belongs to everybody and sings in colors and lights. My works resignificate wounds as golden threads that put the broken pieces together, brings my inherent oniric identity in translations of dreams, miths, symbols and women empowerment. To all the wanderers, helpless hopeful dreamers, you can breath and settle. You've found a home with me.

Apr 2016 – Mar 2018 | Master Student at Yokohama National University, Graduate School of Urban Innovation
Relevant Coursework: Theory of Urban Built Environment Planning, Environmental Psychology, Theory of Urban Living Environment, Green Building and Community Planning, Cross-Border Societies and Region, Urban Management
Thesis Title: Study of the Influence of Ooka River in the Urban Morphology of Yokohama, Advisor: Prof. Dr. Satoru Sadohara.
Academic Status: 4.0/4.5

Apr 2015 – Mar 2016 | Research Student at Yokohama National University, Graduate School of Urban Innovation
Period of research and Japanese language training
Research Title: Waters of Granite Garden: Urban Rivers of Yokohama, Advisor: Prof. Dr. Satoru Sadohara

Feb 2009 – Mar 2014 | Bachelor’s Degree at University of São Paulo, Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning of São Carlos
Bachelor’s degree in Architecture and Urban Planning
Relevant Coursework: Social Studies, Theory and History of Modern Architecture and Urbanism, Language of the Architecture and the City, Landscape, Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism
Graduation Project Title: Looks and Gestures on the Palimpsest City, Advisor: Prof. Dr. Paulo Cesar Castral
Academic Status: 8.1/10

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Nov 2013 | 10° São Paulo International Architecture Biennale.
Co-author of “Sandálias”, exhibited in the collective work “Cartografias”
“Sandálias” (Sandals) was a work developed in group in the class “Languages of contemporary architecture and cities” during 2013, and inserted in the collective work “Cartografias” (Cartographies), under the supervision of NEC.USP Laboratory of University of Sao Paolo that discuss about the critical use of devices that originated as a way to investigate contemporary spacial configurations.

Nov 2012 | Multimedia Art Exhibition Bioart at the University of Campinas
Participation with the works “Jack Sparrow“, “Elizabeth and Will“, “Chasing the shadows“, “Your voice is a garden“and “The girl“

Aug 2007 | 34° International Humor Exhibition of Piracicaba.
Participation with the work “Ampulheta.”
A3-size dip pen black ink drawing on 90 g/m2 cream color paper.