Vincent Valdez is recognized for his monumental portrayal of the contemporary figure. His drawn and  painted subjects remark on a universal struggle within various socio-political arenas and eras. He states,  “My aim is to incite public remembrance and to impede distorted realities that I witness, like the social  amnesia that surrounds me.” 

Valdez was born in 1977 in San Antonio, Texas. He received a full scholarship to study at the Rhode Island  School of Design, and earned his BFA in 2000. A recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for  Painters and Sculptors (2016), as well as residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting (2005), the  Vermont Studio Center (2011) and the Kunstlerhaus Bethania Berlin Residency (2014), Valdez currently lives  and works in Houston. 

Exhibitions and Collections include: The Ford Foundation, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art,  MassMOca, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The Smithsonian Museum of American Art, and The  National Portrait Gallery, among others.