Valerie Durant
CV
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
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/
2020 The Survived, The Sky Project, Taiwanfestival2020, Sculpture, photography installation
Queen Elizabeth Theatre.
https://gallery.vancouvertaiwanfest.ca/Infinite-Sky-For-Everett
2018 East West, Photography Installation, Capture Photo Festival 2018
http://capturephotofest.com/exhibitions/east-west/
2016 YVR Art Program, Photographic works - Installed at International Airport to 2019.
2016 InterWeave, Photography exhibition, Capture Photo 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) and the 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.
SAG permanent collection. www.surrey.ca/culture-recreation/6700.aspx
2002 Looped: Reach Video, Sound Installation, Artemisia, Gallery, Chicago Ill.
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
2021 Canada Council for the Arts – Research and Create – Invisible Rivers
2020 Canada Council for the Arts - 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 for Artists.
Outcome of grant: Points & Perforations
2000 Diane Farris Scholarship, Sculpture Award, ECU.
Evan Lloyd Burrard Boston Memorial Scholarship, ECU.
EDUCATION
2011 MA – Community and Urban Planning, School of Engineering & the Built
Environment, U of P., South Africa
2001 Bachelor of Fine Arts Emily Carr University (ECU),
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art, N.Y., USA
ART MAKES US HUMAN
