Aquiles: The Heart Fell into the Sea - Limited Edition 6 of 25 Print

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 Academy and Museum, New York, for Advanced Studies in Public Art. In 2013 Valdez received the Grand Prize of the International Drawing Biennial at the Palace of Fine Arts, Santo Domingo. In 2014, the US Department of State purchased a large triptych painting for the Art in Embassies program permanent collection. He has presented Twenty-eight (28) solo exhibitions, most recently in November 2014 at the June Kelly Gallery in Soho, New York City. For over a decade, Julio Valdez Studio has been a regular exhibitor at the Affordable Art Fair in New York City. He is represented by June Kelly Gallery in New York City, Latin American Masters in Los Angeles, and other galleries internationally. His work is part of many public, private and museum collections worldwide. The hard-cover book Julio Valdez, by Federica Palomero was published in 2009 in New York. His most recent solo exhibition, Dreams and Reflections, was presented in November 2016 at Latin American Masters in Santa Monica, CA. The exhibition then traveled during 2017 to June Kelly Gallery in Soho, New York City and the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC. www.junekellygallery.com www.LatinAmericanMasters.com www.jvsprojectspace.com www.juliovaldez.com