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Vito Valdez
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 was for them to finally complete a mural near Vernor and Ferdinand in Detroit.
As of late 2019, the Vernor and Ferdinand mural seemed close to completion, after a burst of activity months prior. Which was not surprising, given that the extremely heavy transactional burdens of Knight Foundation matching funds grants are a lot even for artists with integrity.
As of 2025, it appears the Vernor and Ferdinand mural will not be completed at all, due to a change in ownership of the building the mural is on.
Current exhibition
- ¡Trabajadores!, juried by Nora Chapa Mendoza, at 2835 Bagley in Detroit. Opened May 1 and slated to run to May 28.
Upcoming exhibitions
Don't know, don't really care.
Past exhibitions
- Out of the Vault, Into the Light at Detroit Artists Market, curated by Leslie Graves. With featured artist Lori Ellsworth. April 19, 2024 — May 18, 2024.
- Uprising at Hatch Art. November 2 — 30, 2019.
- 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...
Also exhibited at Johanson Charles Gallery many years ago, and was in a retrospective for that gallery at Office Space Gallery.
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