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Vito Valdez
Mediocre muralist whose status as a sacred cow needs to be seriously reexamined. Selected with Katie Yamasaki for a Knight Arts Challenge matching funds grant in 2015. The matching funds grant is for Valdez to finally complete a mural near Vernor and Ferdinand in Detroit. As of October 2019, the mural seems close to completion, after a burst of activity months ago. Which is not surprising, given the extremely complex transactional burdens of Knight Foundation matching funds grants.
Current exhibition
- Uprising at Hatch Art. Opened November 2 and slated to run to November 30.
Upcoming exhibitions
Don't know.
Past exhibitions
- Some "multimedia" exhibit pertaining to the still incomplete mural, at the Mexicantown Cultural Center in Detroit. May 5 – 31, 2018.
- City Walls, sponsored by the Southwest Detroit Business Association. October 26, 2017.
- El Grito de Mi Raza (curator), at Ellen Kayrod Gallery. March 10, 2017 – April 21, 2017.
- The Essential Self: Meditations on the Politics of Identity at Detroit Artists Market. June 12, 2015 – July 18, 2015.
- Mundo Mericas: Contemporary Art of the Americas, in the Main and Rose Galleries of the N'Namdi Center for Contemporary Art. March 27, 2015 – May 30, 2015.
- ...a few more going back decades...
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