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Juana Valdes has participated in a range of exhibitions from Multiplicity: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, which travel throughout the US in 2007-08 to the most recent group show From Taboo To Icon: Africanist Turnabout, which took place at the Crane space in Philadelphia in 2008. In New York, her work has been exhibited at a combination of alternative space, galleries and museum: Hudson River Museum, Art in General, El Museo del Barrio, WhiteBox Gallery, Bronx River Art Center, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art, Center and Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art. She continues to work in New York and aboard in international group shows like Un-staged at Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam to a four person show at the Newark Museum, The Caribean Abroad:Contemporay Artists and Latino Migration that explores topics of migration from a historical context and uses visual imagery of water to refer to the geographical experience of coming from an island.
Her most recent residency includes Smack Mellon Studio program in Brooklyn Studios Program in Brooklyn during 2003, the Lower EastSide Printshop and the Center for Book Art in 2005. Over the years, her work has been seen in a series of public art project which she has participated in Off Axis 2006 in St. Barbara, CA. Accesibiity2005 in Sumter, SC., the Jamaica Flux: Workspace & Window in 2004 and the Brewster Project in 2001 upstate New York. She was invited to participate in a residency at the European Ceramic Work Center in Holland in 2002. Her artwork has been exhibited in Holland, Germany, Australia, Belgium, France and Poland. Her work can be seen at the Newark Museum in their permanent collection.
She is a recipient of the Cuban Artist Fund grant and was one of the Cintas Foundation finalists in 2004. In 1998 she was selected as one of the US participants for the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center International and National Studio Residency Program and she was awarded the Cosby Fellowship to attend Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1995. Her most recent sculptures incorporate video and photography and this is due to the Pollack-Krasner grant, which she received in 1998. Juana Valdes complete her M.F.A. in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in 1993 and her B.F.A. in Sculpture at Parsons School of Design in 1991. Ms. Valdes was born in Cabañas, Cuba and came to the United States in 1971.