SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2010 Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ, Valeri Larko: Two Decades ( (catalogue, essay)

2009 Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ, Urban Edges, (catalogue, essay)

Bronx Borough President‘s Art Gallery, Bronx, NY

2008 College of New Rochelle, NY

2007 Domo Gallery, Summit, NJ

Visual Art Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ

2006 Safe-T-Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY

2005 The Art Guild of Rahway, Rahway, NJ, Consumed, (catalogue, essay)

2003 Secaucus Transfer Station, NJ, Permanent Installation of NJ Transit Murals

1999 Kent Place Gallery, Summit, NJ

1998 New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ Works on Paper

1997 Johnson & Johnson Gallery, Corporate Headquarters, New Brunswick, NJ

1996 New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, (catalogue 1 essay,Catalogue 2 essay )

1994 Union County College, Tomasulo Gallery, Cranford, NJ

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Since 1997:

2009 ACA Galleries, “New York: Then and Now“, New York City

2008 Prince George Gallery. New York, City, Group show curated by Lise Curry

St Joseph College, Brooklyn, NY, "Two Artists, Two Realities“, Two person Exhibition

Jersey City Museum, NJ, “Sprawl” (catalogue)

Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ, "New Jersey, Then and Now“

2007 Art Now Miami, FL, Art Fair showing with Safe T Gallery

Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, New York "Green“
George Billis Gallery, New York City, "Good Niight Sun“

Affero Gallery, Newark, New Jersey, "Our Man in Havana, The Vacuum Cleaner in Art“

2006 Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY, "Trash, what we value and what we throw away“

Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah,"Palpable Painting”

2005 Jersey City Museum, NJ, “Jersey City Interprets” (works from the Permanent Collection)

Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, “Artistic Fragments” curated by Benny Andrews

Victory Hall, Jersey City, NJ, “SKYway” curated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Jersey City Museum

2004 Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ, “Mix in the Bricks” curated by Chakaia Booker

Art in Embassies Program, Minsk, Belarus 2004-2006

2003 NJ State Council on the Arts, Trenton, NJ “Selections from the State Museum’s Permanent Collection”

Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, New York, “Paper 2003”

Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ, “NJ Fine Arts Annual”, (catalogue)

2002 Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ, "Preview: NJ Transit Murals", Two Person Exhibit

NJ State Museum, Trenton, NJ, “Women’s Works: Fine Art from the Museum’s Collection

Bruton Street Gallery, London, England, “Gallery Artists”, (catalogue)

2001 Bruton Street Gallery, London, England, “New Year, New Talent”, catalogue)

Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, “15E: Contemporary Art and the NJ Turnpike”, (catalogue)

2000 Pierogi, Brooklyn, New York, Flat Files

Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ, "From the Slide Registry" Three Person Exhibition

1999 New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, “New Jersey Arts Annual”, (catalogue)

1998 MB Modern Gallery, New York City, ”New York Perspectives”

National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, Art in the Academy, Two Person Exhibit

Saint Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire, “The Art of Representation”

William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ, Ben Shahn Galleries,” Biennial,” (catalogue)

1997 Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ, Two-Person Exhibit

New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, “Current Perspectives of Urban Landscapes” (catalogue)

AWARDS:

2009 Joyce Dutka Art Foundation Award for painting

2006 George Sugarman Foundation Grant for painting

Strategic Opportunity Grant, New York State Council on the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts

2002 Artist in Residence Fellowship, Newark Museum

1998 Residency Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, 1998

1992 Painting Fellowship, New Jersey State Council on the Arts

167rd Annual Julius Hallgarten Prize, National Academy of Design, New York City (catalogue)

1988 163rd Annual Julius Hallgarten Prize, National Academy of Design, New York City (catalogue)

PANEL DISCUSSIONS AND LECTURES:

2009: Industrial Postmortem: Panel discussion at Jersey City Museum, NJ

2008: Two Artists, Two Realities, Artist talk, St Joseph’s college, Brooklyn, NJ

2006: Artists Using Discards: Media and Message, Chakaia Booker, Jenny Krasner, Valeri Larko,
Panel Discussion & Exhibit, Federation of NY solid waste and recycling convention, Sagamore, Lake George, NY

2002: Artist in Residence Lecture and Exhibition: Newark Museum, NJ

PUBLIC & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS:

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS since 1997:

Inside Jersey Magazine, June 2009, Woman of Industry by Jennifer Weiss

New Jersey Life Magazine, June 2009, Web Interview: Valeri Larko on the Urban Edge by Patti Verbanas

New Jersey Monthly Magazine, June 2009, Get Out: Valeri Larko Urban Landscapes,

Courier News, April 17, 2009, Unconeventional Beauty by Ralph Bellatoni,

Ins and Outs Magazine, Winter 2008/2009, Long Island City, NY, Feature Article, Rachel Kalina

The George Washington Bridge, Poetry in Steel, 2008, Michael Arron Rockland, Rutgers University Press

New Jersey Star Ledger, May 16, 2008, Something in Jersey That Deserves Laughs, Dan Bischoff

New Jersey Star Ledger, March 28, 2008, Living Large in New Jersey, Dan Bischoff

New Jersey Monthly Magazine, March 2008, Get Out Section, ART: Decongestant

New Jersey Star Ledger, November 15, 2007, artnotes, Jersey realist, Dan Bischoff

Harpers Magazine, June edition, 2007

Jersey City - A Monumental History, June 2007, Randall Gabrielan, Published by Shiffer Publishing

Summit Magazine, October 2006, Finding Beauty in Industrial Landscapes, Jacqueline Herships

Waste Age Magazine. August 2006, Queen of the Heap, Artist’s paintings ispired by NJ landfill, Patti Verbanas

Rocketboom Video Blog, Wednesday June 28, 2006, Trash Interview by Sherng-Lee Huang

New Jersey Star Ledger, May 19, 2006, A faculty for diversity, Dan Bischoff

The Riverdale Press, March 23, 2006, “Overlapping Images,Two artists examine complex layers of urban life“

New Jersey Star Ledger, March 15, 2006, Artsnotes, “Jersey vistas in Brooklyn“ Dan Bischoff

Courier News, “Junkyard Beauty: Valeri Larko Paints Waste Into Wonder”, Ralph Bellantoni, November 24, 2005

NJN Public Televison & Radio, “Turnpike“ TV Documentary on the New Jersey Turnpike, 2005

New Jersey Monthly Magazine, January 2003 “Bruce Springsteen and 40 More New Jerseyans We Love” Maggie

Bruen

New York Times, November 10, 2002 “Think Modern Art is Junk?” Margo Nash

New Jersey Star Ledger, August 16, 2002, "They’ve been working on the Railroad", Dan Bischoff

New York Times, August 11, 2002, “Murals for a Rail Hub Evoke Power of Transportation” William Zimmer

New York Times, April 28, 2002, “Themes are Universal in Artworks by Women” William Zimmer

Harpers Magazine, April edition, 2002

New Jersey Star Ledger, October 2, 2001, "Asphalt Artery", Dan Bischoff

New York Times, November 12, 2000,"The Sounds of Creativity: Artists’ Studios Are Not So Still", William Zimmer

Art of the State - New Jersey, Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1999

New York Times, September 5, 1999, "Unexpected Pleasures", William Zimmer

New York Times, August 1, 1999, "Recent Works with an Air of Familiarity" Barry Schwabsky

New York Times, July 30, 1999, "A Garden of Subjects, Materials & Styles Across New Jersey", Holland Cotter

New Jersey Star Ledger, July 23, 1999, “Dramatic Diversity”, Dan Bischoff
New York Times, September 27, 1998, “Familiar Sights, Freshly Portrayed”, William Zimmer
New Jersey Monthly Magazine, May 1998,”Painting a Lost World”, Joel Lewis,

New York Times, March 30, 1997, “Not Your Average Bucolic Landscapes”, William Zimmer