BIOGRAPHY

Born in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic,
Julio Valdez relocated to New York in1993. Working
between pluri-cultural sensibilities, Valdez infuses
his work with multi-layered imagery as a
response to the shifting cultural and social
influences in his life. A painter, printmaker and
mixed media artist whose work has been
exhibited internationally, he has received
numerous prestigious international awards,
including an Artist-in-Residence Fellowship at
The Studio Museum in Harlem,
New York City in1997-98, the Silver Palette
for Painting at the XXXeme Festival International
de la Peinture, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France in
1998, the Grand Prize at the XVII E. Leon
Jimenes Biennial, the Dominican Republic in 2000,
and the New York Foundation for the Arts
Fellowship, 2003, among others.