Valerie Durant

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Valerie Durant - CV          Website:www.valeriedurant.ca   Instagram:Valeriedurant.art

SELECTED EXHIBITION

2026     ECUAD Centennial Digital Media Advertising Campaign- shared across Canada &    

             Internationally —  work from my Bioluminescence, porcelain series.

2025     Understory: The Hidden Connections  - Solo Exhibition,  Sunshine Coast  Arts    

             Centre, Sechelt.   Immersive  sound, photography and sculptural installation. Canada Council    

             Explore & Create                        

https://www.coastreporter.net/local-arts/multidisciplinary-artists-plug-in-to-forest-networks-at-sunshine-coast-arts-centre-11228122#google_vignette

2025    Influx:Waiting on The Water, Photography & Ice Installation. Solo Exhibition. New Leaf    

            Gallery. Capture PhotoFestival  Curated Taste  Event. Capture Cyanotype Workshop.

            https://capturephotofest.com/events/workshop-cyanotype-ice-workshop-with-valerie-durant/

2025    This_________Gallery, Systems Shift. Photographic Sculptures. Solo Exhibition

            https://thisgallery.org/project/valerie-durant-systems-shift/ 

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2025    Pacific Northwest Climate Action Week -Climate Art Dialogue -  Langara College, Diverse   

            Climate Perspectives For Action - Dissipation - Traces of A Vanishing Landscape Installation 

2024    YVR Airport, Art Installation Program - Photography, Sculpture

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2023    Silence of The Sea:SOS,  Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.

            Reflects upon the Climate Crisis,  Human Impact on the natural world & relationship with    

            material culture.  Canada Council Digital Original  Installed.

            Photography, Video, Sound  and Sculptural Installation.

            Capture Photography Festival

            https://www.cristallgallery.com/valerie-durant-silence-of-the-sea/

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2023    Dissipation:Traces of A Vanishing Landscape, Collaboration   

            Iceberg Impressions. CBC NFLD. Documentary on sea level rise and the disappearance     

            of Icebergs brought about by climate change.  

             Producer: Jane Adey, CBC.

            https://gem.cbc.ca/media/land-and-sea-nfld/s58e09

2022    Coquitlam Gallery-Place des Arts Gallery, Coquitlam, B.C.Resource Extractions Through   

             an  Artistic Lens.  Recycled Paper Sculptures and roots.  Group Exhibition.

2021    Invisible Rivers, Mixed Media Installation, Gibson’s Public Art Gallery, Gibson’s, B.C.  

              https://www.coastreporter.net/local-arts/new-show-plays-on-humans-environmental-   impact-4748654

2021 Luminescence, Bioluminescence Installation, Deer Lake Art Gallery, Burnaby, B.C.

             Sculpture and Photography Installation. 

2021 Changing Horizons: Our Ecological Footprint.  Photography, Burnaby Art Gallery

              https://burnabyartscouncil.org/artist-stories/valerie-durant-making-art-from-and-for-the-earth

2020 The  Survived, The Sky Project, Taiwan Festival 2020,  QE Theatre, Photography Public Art

              https://gallery.vancouvertaiwanfest.ca/Infinite-Sky-For-Everett    

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2018 East West, Photography Installation, Capture Photo Festival 2018.

  http://capturephotofest.com/exhibitions/east-west/

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2016    InterWeave, Photography, Capture PhotoFestival 2016, Ukama Gallery, Vancouver

             Climate Impact in Africa.  http://capturephotofest.com/exhibitions/interweave-africa/

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2009   Alliance Fançaise Gallery -   Pretoria, South Africa -The Face of Africa - Photography Exhibition.      

            Photography of people & livelihood across the continent of Africa,  In partnership the UN Office of     

            Migration (IOM) & The Canadian Government in South Africa.  A project to address the issues of   

           Xenophobia in South Africa. 

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2006 Points and Perforations & Perforations - Immersive Sound & Sculptural Installation, Interurban   

           Gallery,   Vancouver, B.C. (Canada Council Grant - New Media Artist)

2005   Out of The Rain: A Project For Homelessness 

           Conceptualized, co-curated &collaborated with 30 Community, Social & Arts       

           Organizations to Bring Awareness through the Arts about Homelessness in Vancouver.

           Collaborators Included: Gallery Gachet, Roundhouse & WestEnd Community Centres,     

           Correctional Services of Canada, Federal &  Provincial Governments, City of Vancouver,     

           Coast Mental Health. 50+ artists including  homeless artists. 

           https://www.straight.com/article/gimme-shelter-0

2004    Well - Surrey Art Gallery, Art Amongst Our Shelves - Sculpture, video sound. 

            https://www.surrey.ca/arts-culture/surrey-art-gallery/exhibitions/art-among-our-shelves-well

2002  Looped Video Environments, Artemisia Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago,  Chicago Illinois,    

             USA. Amphibious Desire     https://vimeo.com/939331315

AWARDS

2024    Canada Council for the Arts - Explore and Create -  Outcome: Understory: The Hidden     

            Connection. Paper Trails, This____________Gallery

2021   Canada Council for the Arts - Explore and Create - Invisible Rivers Project.

2020 Canada Council for the Arts Digital Original CBC Grant – Silence of the Sea Video &    

           Sound Work     https://vimeo.com/463659233/5c95fb1d0e

2011      Award of Distinction - The University of Pretoria - MA Thesis

             Sustainable Urban Agriculture and Forestation: The Edible Connected City. 

2005 Canada Council for the Art–New Media Artist Production Grant – Points  & Perforations

2001 Evan Lloyd Burrard Boston Memorial Scholarship, ECU

PROFESSIONAL NON-ART CV -SELECTED 

2015-     Project Manager,  Federal Accelerated- Enhanced Security Infrastructure Projects     

2018      Consultant Contract, 2015 - 2019 Public Works Canada,  Led Teams of Architects &      

              Engineers , Enhanced Security & Design   Transport Canada - Airports & Canada Boarder          

             CBSA) locations in British Columbia.

2012-    Planner-City of Vancouver-Housing Projects & Policy, Social Infrastructure. 

2015     Led the implementation of  Complex Market & Non-Market Housing.  Project Manager - Homelessness Projects. Policy Development: Design & Technical                 Guideline for Social Housing.         

             Extreme Heat Response Team, Food Security  in Social Housing, Urban Agriculture in the Private Realm. 

2009-    Environmental Consultant, UK Government, Climate Change Specialist - Sustainable Land Use 2012 Planning . Developed a Strategic Action Plan to

2012     Reduce GhG emissions & mitigate climate impacts in the built environment &  land holdings  holdings the UK Government in South Africa.

2007-    Consultant - African Water Research Institute(AWIRA). Water Resource Management- Program 

2008     Management  & Development - Climate Change Consultant. Developed Network - Transboundry African Regional Global Water Partnership.

1993-   Project Manager - Social Infrastructure Architectural Design - Sustainable Land Use Planning 

2012    Adaptive Reuse Development, Interior Architecture & Design, Project Management & Contract  Administration.

           Medical  & Dental Interior architectural  design, project Management 

EDUCATION

          Langara Community College Vancouver, B.C Design Formation, 2 year Diploma, Design.

2000  Cooper Union School of Art and Science, Exchange with ECUAC, New York, USA .

2002   Bachelor of Fine Arts Emily Carr University (ECU) 

2011   MA,Community & Regional Planning, School of Engineering & the Built  Environment,   

           University of Pretoria., South Africa,  Award  of Distinction.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

2026     TELUS, Marine Centre,  Telusmarina.com

2004     The Well, SAGal, Permanent Collection, www.surrey.ca/culture-recreation/6700.aspx

2009     The UN International Office of Migration (IOM), South Africa  5 works from the Face of Africa  

             Series. 

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VIDEO AND SOUND PROJECT LINKS 

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2002  Reach                               https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/939331315 

2002 The Well                             https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/934641199

2006  Points and Perforations    https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/934641199

2021 Silence of The Sea            https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/463659233

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SELECTED PUBLISHED ARTICLES - REVIEWS

2025 Coast Reporter, Multi-Disciplinary Artists Plug into Forest Networks  

2011 Coast Reporter, Ric Jepersen, New Show Plays on Human Environmental Impacts

2006 The Vancouver Sun, Clint Burnham, February 2006, Valerie Durant, 

2006  Georgia Straight,  Robin Lawrence, February 2006, Points & Perforations

2005  Georgia Straight, Author, Robin Lawrence, Gimme Shelter, 2006