Valerie Piraino
Studio Building
Studio Interior
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Studio Location
Artwork
With Pen in Hand
Simone
Simone (Detail)
The Pregnant Moment (The house stripped bare)
The Visionary Stranger
Valerie
Piraino
Artist's Statement
Nostalgia
Unsatisfied desire
Embodiment
The hypothetical subject
Shorthand
Women’s words
Private
Not gendered words, a gendered editing.
“There was really an absence of all ladylike restraint in her language and manner most painful to see.” Wilkie Collins The Moonstone p. 209
Object-Image
Image- Object
Chance structure
Structured chance
The potential for authorship
A life told through projections
The inability to actually know
Taking these pictures with you in mind
For you to see
The absent photographer
A physical reminder of who you are (not told, not imagined)
Bio/Resume
2009 M.F.A. Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, NY
2004 B.F.A. Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Fidelity, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, 2011
Collective Show, Participant, NY, NY 2010
Usable Pasts, Studio Museum in Harlem, NY, NY, 2010
Arctic Book Club, EFA Project Space, NY, NY, 2009
Whitney's Biennial, C.R.E.A.M. Projects, NY, NY, 2009
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Fisher Landau Center for Art, NY, NY, 2009
The Practice of Joy Before Death, Scaramouche, NY, NY, 2009
MFA Exhibition, Nash Building, NY, NY, 2008
Keisho Art Exhibition, Aichi Prefectural Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan, 2004
RESIDENCIES/AWARDS
2009 Artist-in-residence, Studio Museum in Harlem, NY, NY
2006 Artist-in-residence, Brooklyn Fire Proof, NY, NY
2004 Jacques and Natasha Gelman Travel Award, Maryland Institute, Baltimore, MD
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