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 event, 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
