Vincent Valdez

Vincent Valdez is an American artist based in Houston and Los Angeles. He was born in 1977 in San Antonio, Texas, and received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2000. Valdez has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters and Sculptors in 2016, and he has completed residencies at various institutions such as the Skowhegan School of Painting and the Vermont Studio Center.

His work is included in the collections of several museums across the United States, and he has exhibited in several institutional exhibitions such as The Face of Battle: Americans at War, 9/11 to Now at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery, and Suffering from Realness at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA).

Valdez was shortlisted as a finalist for the Smithsonian’s 2022 National Portrait Award and his portrait of his grandparents will be presented in The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today, a major exhibition premiering at the National Portrait Gallery in April 2022.