Val Nelson’s artistic practice has encompassed dance performance, animation, video, film, drawing, and painting. An Honours graduate of Emily Carr College of Art and Design, her dance video collaborations have been screened at film festivals worldwide. In 2003, Nelson was a finalist in the Royal Bank Painting Competition, and her paintings and drawings have been exhibited across Canada and collected internationally. She has received grants from BC Arts Council, a Knowledge Network Media Award, a Canada Council Travel Grant and Art Bank Purchase Award, among others, and has attended residencies at Vermont Studio Centre and Georgian College.
Her work has been published in Carte Blanche Volume II (Magenta Foundation), International Painting Annual 3 (Manifest Drawing and Research Centre), and Capilano University Press. Public institutions that have collected her work include Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Canada Council Art Bank, Surrey Art Gallery, and Vancouver General Hospital. Val has been represented by Bau-Xi Gallery (Vancouver/Toronto) and Galerie de Bellefeuille (Montreal), and has taught painting and drawing at the Shadbolt Arts Centre, Gordon Smith Gallery, Vancouver Island School of Art, and since 2009 in her private art studio. She currently lives and works in Vancouver, Canada.
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“…intellectually and artistically daring work…”
Gilbert Bouchard, Edmonton Journal
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“The highlight of the show… loose, intelligent brushwork…”
Christopher Brayshaw, The Georgia Straight
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“…she crafts the kind of post-photographic painting that does its best to make an eye dulled by electronic media vibrate anew. I am happy to say she is largely successful.”
Terence Dick, Akimbo
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“…an artist going places…”
Betty Ann Jordan, Canadian House and Home