Valerie Durant
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023 Silence of the Sea
Opens March 25 2 - 5 pm
Elissa Cristall Gallery
Reflects upon the Climate Crisis and
Human Impact on the Natural World.
Photography, Video,
Sound, Sculpture Installation.
Artist Talk April 15 2 pm
This event is part of the
2023 Capture Photography
Festival Events Program
https://artoffice.ca/valerie-durant-silence-of-the-sea/
2023 Iceberg Impressions
CBC Newfoundland.
Documentary on sea level rise and the
disappearance of icebergs caused by
climate change.
https://gem.cbc.ca/media/land-and-sea-nfld/s58e09
2021 Invisible Rivers, Gibson’s
Public Art Gallery
https://www.coastreporter.net/local-arts/new-show-plays-on-humans-environmental- impact-4748654
2021 Changing Horizons:
Our Ecological Footprint
Photography,
Burnaby Arts Council.
https://burnabyartscouncil.org/artist-stories/valerie-durant-making-art-from-and-for-the-earth/
2021 Place des Arts Gallery, Coquitlam, B.C. .
Resource Extractions
Through an Artistic Lens.
Recycled Paper Sculptures
2020 The Survived, The Sky Project,
Taiwanfestival2020,
Sculpture, photography , poetry
Queen Elizabeth Theatre.
https://gallery.vancouvertaiwanfest.ca/Infinite-Sky-For-Everett
2018 East West, Photography
Capture Photo Festival 2018
http://capturephotofest.com/exhibitions/east-west/
2016 YVR Art Program
Photographic works
Installed at International Airport to 2019
2016 InterWeave,
Capture Photography Festival,
Ukama Gallery Vancouver
http://capturephotofest.com/exhibitions/interweave-africa/
2009 The Face of Africa: Along the Road
Alliance Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa.
One Africa
International Office of Migration (IOM)
Canadian High Commission,
South Africa.
Concept: Anti-Xenophobia
2006 Points and Perforations
Immersive Sound and Sculptural Installation
Interurban Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
Canada Council Grant, New Media Artist)
www.straight.com/article/valerie-durant-points-and-perforations
2002 The Well - Surrey Art Gallery
Art Amongst Our Shelves
Sculpture,video sound installation
SAG permanent collection.
www.surrey.ca/culture-recreation/6700.aspx
2002 Looped: Reach Video,
Sound Installation, ArtemisiaGallery
Chicago Ill.
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
2021 Canada Council for the Arts Research and Create
Outcome : Invisible Rivers 2021
Canada Council for the Arts
2020 Digital Original Strategic Grant
CBC Arts - Silence of the Sea
https://vimeo.com/463659233/5c95fb1d0e
2011 Award of Distinction
The University of Pretoria. MA Thesis
Sustainable Urban Agriculture and Forestation:
The Edible Connected City.
2006 Canada Council for the Arts
New Media Audio Artist Production Grant
Outcome: Points & Perforations
2000 Diane Farris Scholarship, ECU.
Evan Lloyd Burrard Memorial
Scholarship, ECU.
EDUCATION
2011 MA – Community and Urban Planning
School of Engineering & the Built
Environment, U of P., South Africa
2002 Bachelor of Fine Arts
Emily Carr University (ECU),
Cooper Union for the Advancement
of Science & Art, N.Y., USA
ART MAKES US HUMAN
