| Artist Resume: Valeri Larko 50 Webster Ave #2B • New Rochelle, New York 10801 • (908) 277-6271 valart87@yahoo.com |
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2009 Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ, (catalogue, essay by Mary Birmingham)** 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) 2004 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, essay) Roundabout Theatre, New York City 1994 Union County College, Tomasulo Gallery, Cranford, NJ SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2009 Mikhail Zakin Gallery, Old Church Cultural Center, Demarest, NJ, "Our Present Planet“ 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 The Studio, Armonk, NY, “Winter Solstice V: Expressions of Our Time and Place 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 Roc’o 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) 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) Rowean University, Glassboro, NJ, “Uncommon Landscape” New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ, “Art in Summit - Centennial Exhibition” Walker Kornbluth Gallery, Fair Lawn, NJ, “Spirit of the City” 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) 1988163rd Annual Julius Hallgarten Prize, National Academy of Design, New York City (catalogue) PANEL DISCUSSIONS AND LECTURES: 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: Jersey City Museum, NJ, Montclair Museum, NJ. The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey Transit, Secaucus, NJ, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Johnson & Johnson Corporation, New Brunswick, NJ. Fox Industries, Foster City, CA. MacArthur Petroleum, Newark, NJ. IMTT - Bayonne, NJ. Ginsburg Development Companies, Valhalla, NY PharmaTech International, Fairfield, NJ Cooper Alloy, Hillside NJ Monmouth Bonding, Newark, NJ, Kuehne Chemical, Kearny, NJ. City Hall, Summit, NJ. Latham & Watkins, Newark, NJ Broad Street Associate LLC, Newark, NJ Wolff & Samson, West Orange, NJ PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS: Fragmented Glass Murals for Bus Shelter, Summit, NJ New Jersey Transit Murals, Secaucus Transfer Station Commission for Mayor’s Office, City Hall, Summit, NJ Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Veterans Administration, Metuchen, NJ Veterans Administration, Paramus, NJ SELECTED PUBLICATIONS since 1997: New Jersey Star Ledger, March 19, 2009, The art of the Industrial- a Jersey specialty, Dan Bischoff 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 The Courier News, June 29, 2006, Trashy Art, Soho show casts fresh perspectives, Ralph Bellantoni 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 Worrall Newspapers, “Artist highlights lost items along the state’s landscape”. Jeff Cummins, November 17, 2005 NJN Public Televison & Radio, “Turnpike” TV Documentary on the New Jersey Turnpike, 2005 Journal News, May 19, 2005, “Artists live & breathe art at Media Loft”, Len Maniace
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, 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 Jersey Star Ledger, July 23, 1999, “Dramatic Diversity”, Dan Bischoff New Jersey Monthly Magazine, May 1998,”Painting a Lost World”, Joel Lewis, New Jersey Star Ledger, July 10, 1997, “Industrial Scenes on canvas”, Ada Brunner New York Times, March 30, 1997, “Not Your Average Bucolic Landscapes”, William Zimmer |
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