VALERIE HAMMOND
Valerie Hammond maintains a fluid artistic practice, distinguishable for her organic approach and deft interaction with different mediums. In all of her work, there is play between the material and the immaterial, the physical and the spiritual: the dichotomy between what is seen and the sensation it provokes. The works inhabit a space she is constantly searching for, straddling the indefinable boundary between presence and absence, material and immaterial, consciousness and the unconscious. Her artwork becomes emblematic not only of the people whose hands she has traced or the subjects she is drawing but of her own evolving artist process-testimony to the passing of time and the quiet dissolution of memory. Her work can be found in both private and public collections such as the Walker Art Center, the Library of Congress, The Fine Arts Museum Houston, The Progressive Art Collection, the Fidelity Collection, the New York Public Library’s print and drawing collection, The Chazen Museum, The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, The Grand Palais Museum, Paris and the Getty Museum. She is a recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, and has exhibited in solo and group shows nationally and internationally.
Chronological list of Selected Exhibitions
2019
Traces, Debra Berke Partners, NY, NY
Double Vision, crated by Jane Holzer, Leila Heller Gallery, NY, NY
Valerie Hammond and Kathryn Madill, RDS Gallery, Dunedin, NZ
2018
Disillusionment, Taller Boricua, Harlem, New York
Draw Serbia, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
Pollinators, Cahoon Museum, Cape Cod, Mass.
Familiars Valerie Hammond and Kiki Smith, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Vermont, catalogue
Spectrum, The Thomas Cole House, Catskill, NY
Landmark, the Albany airport, Albany, NY
We Never Sleep, Little John Contemporary Gallery, New York, NY
Familiars Valerie Hammond and Kiki Smith, Miss Porters School, Farmington, Conn.
2017
I stole them from a Bee, Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY
Red, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, New Jersey
Nightjar, Underdonk Gallery, Brooklyn, NY A Declaration of Sentiments, The Athens Cultural Center, Athens, NY
DRAW, Massachusetts Collage of Art, Boston, Mass. New Prints 2017/Winter, IPCNY, New York, NY
Booknesses Artists’ Books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection, curated by David Paton, University of Johannesburg, South Africa,
Catalogue “TYRANNY OF THE COMMON SENSE HAS REACHED ITS FINAL
STAGE”, curated by Tomas Vu and Rirkrit Tiravanija, Leroy Neiman Center Gallery, Columbia University, NY
2016
Language of Birds: Occult and Art, 80 WSE Gallery, New York, NY
New Prints 2016/Winter, IPCNY, New York, NY
2015
Printing Women, New York Public Library, New York, NY
Lure: John Davis Gallery, Hudson, New York
DRAW: Mapping Madness, Dali Contemporary Art, Gucheng, Dali, China
New Prints, Clo Cill Rialaig Gallery, Co Kerry, Ireland
2014
Decay: The Ephemeral Body in Art, Grinnell College, Grinnell Iowa
On Being, Union College, Mandeville Gallery, Schenectady, NY, catalogue
Valerie Hammond Prints, Tina Goodwin Gallery, Denver, Colorado
Print Facets: Five Centuries of Printmakers, The Curator Gallery, New York, NY, catalogue
Somewhere between Creation & Destruction, University of Hartford Gallery, Hartford, Conn., catalogue
Three Artist at the Bronson House, Valerie Hammond ,Kiki Smith and Seton Smith, Hudson, NY
In Pursuit of Wonder, 1 E 53rd st Gallery, New York, NY
DRAW: Mapping Madness, Inside-Out Museum, Beijing, China, catalogue
NYABF PS1 MOMA, Booklyn Artist Alliance, New York, NY
INK Miami, Wildwood Press, Miami, Florida
E/ABF, Becky Lax Prints and Booklyn Artist Alliance, New York, NY
New York-New Delhi, Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi, India
2013
Blue Rainbow, Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY
SIX artists: Valerie Hammond, Kim Keever, Ruth Marten, Jacquelyn McBain, Jennifer Wynn Reeves, Melinda Stickney-Gibson, Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY
The Morphology of the Print, Lehman College, New York, NY
Streaming Spirits: New Prints by Valerie Hammond and Kiki Smith, SCAD, Atlanta, Georgia
Streaming Spirits: New Prints by Valerie Hammond and Kiki Smith , SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
New Prints 2013/Winter, IPCNY, New York, NY
A Show of Hands, Tucson Art Museum, Tuscan, Arizona
New Prints 2013/Winter, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh, Scotland
2012
Streaming Spirits: New Prints by Valerie Hammond and Kiki Smith, Gallerie Pfreim, Lacoste, France
Diamond Leaves: Brilliant artist books from around the world, curated by Xu Bing and Marshall Weber, CAFA Museum, Beijing, China
Welcome Back, New lithographs at Tamarind Press, Albuquerque, NM
Mark Making: Prints from Wildwood Press, St. Louis University Museum of Art, St. Louis, Mo
2011
Threshold, Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY
Printer/Publisher Artist/Printer Courtney Obata and Wildwood Press, Bonsack Gallery, John Burroughs School, St. Louis, MO
A Printer's Spotlight/15 Years of Wildwood Press, Gallery, Gallery 210, University of Missouri St Louis, St. Louis, MO
Threshold, Valerie Hammond, Littlejohn Contemporary Gallery, New York, NY
Papertails, 80 WSE Gallery, Curated by Valerie Hammond and Kiki Smith, NY, NY
IFPDA Print Fair, Tamarind Press new editions, New York, NY
2010
Hot Harvest: The Gowanus Studio Space 2010 Printmaking Fellows and Friends, Brooklyn, New York
Drawings, curated by Katia Santibanez, Muriel Guepin Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Humanimal, Portsmouth Museum of Art, Portsmouth, NH
Aether, Valerie Hammond, Walker Contemporary, Boston, Mass
Propagating Eden: Uses and Techniques of Nature Printing in Botany and Art, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
Encaustics: Wax and Image, Westchester College Center for the Arts, White Plains, NY
2009
Kiki Smith and Valerie Hammond Etchings and Encaustic Drawings, Toots and Magoo Gallery, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Off the Wall: Contemporary Installation, Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York
2008
Valerie Hammond, Twilight contes de fees, Garson Baker Fine Art, NY
The Beast Within, Bowman Bloom Gallery, New York, NY
New Prints Fall 2008, ICPNY, NY, NY
E/AB Fine Print Fair, New Editions, The Brodsky Center, NY, NY
Propagating Eden: Uses and Techniques of Nature Printing in Botany and Art, ICPNY, NY, NY
Peace, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
NEXT Art Fair, Cue Art Foundation, Chicago, IL
Art Chicago, Wildwood Press, Chicago, IL
Aqua Miami, Wildwood Press, Miami, Florida
2007
Corpo-real , Book as Body, Body as Book, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
The Big Draw, site-specific public drawing project at Teardrop Park, The Drawing Center, NY, NY
Ten Years of Wildwood Press, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
Tease, Garson Fine Arts, New York, NY
Emily Dickinson Rendered, Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
Valerie Hammond Works in Progress, Wildwood Press, St. Louis, Missouri
Ether Valerie Hammond, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
2006
Valerie Hammond, curated by Kiki Smith, The Cue Foundation, NY, NY
Colectiva Diciembre-Emero, Michel Soskine Inc., Madrid Spain
Hair, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
Valerie Hammond, M% Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
Art 212, M% Gallery, New York, New York
Valerie Hammond and Mary Mcfarland, NG Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
Flow Art Fair, M% Gallery, Miami, Florida
2005
De Balthus a Zeller, Michel Soskine In., Madrid, Spain
Tracings, Valerie Hammond, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
Valerie Hammond/Kim Cridler; Tracings, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah
Scope New York, M% Gallery, New York, New York
Pulp, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
New Prints 2005/Spring Selected by Kiki Smith, International Print Center, NY, NY
Encaustic Works 2005, Sammuel Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, New York
2004
Means, RKL Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Valerie Hammond and Judy Pfaff, M% Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
Valerie Hammond, Port Gallery, Port Chalmers, New Zealand
Multiple Encounters, Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts, New Delhi, India,
Jawahar, Kala Dendra, Jaipur, Dala Akadeni, Goa, Dirla Akadeni of fine Arts, Calcutta
2003
Valerie Hammond, Memento, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
Meander, M% Gallery, Cleveland Ohio
Garden of Compassion, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
2002
25th Small Works, 80 WSE Galleries, (Jury Prize) NY, NY
Yale Faculty Show, Norfolk, Connecticut
Small Packages, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
Winter Show, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
2001
Work of Papers, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
Memory, Brewery Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2000
Prints 2000, Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Waxing Poetic Encaustic Art in America, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey,
And Knoxville Art Museum, Knoxville, Tennessee
1999
Valerie Hammond and Lisa Lawley, The Panting Center, New York, New York
1998
Location, Kendall Fine Art, Hudson, New York
1997
The Altered Image, Islip Art Museum, New York
1996
A Sense of Order, The Painting Center, New York
1994
Woman's Drawings, Council of the Arts Gallery, Catskill, New York
1993
Group Show, Artist Space Gallery, New York
Gallery Artists, Galerie Caroline Corre, Paris, France
1991
Group Show, Mona Bismark Foundation, Paris, France
1989
Artists Books, Galerie Caroline Corre, Paris, France
1988
Valerie Hammond, J.L. Becker Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Messages, Carlo La Magna Gallery, New York
1984
Disposable Art Show, Kamikaze, New York
The Fan Show, Jon Leon Gallery, New York
1983
Original Artists Books, Frankfurt, Germany
Prenez un livre dit-elle, Yerres, France
Books of American Artists, Galerie Caroline Corre, Paris, France
3rd Salon du Livre Grand Palais Museum, Paris, France
Collections:
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minn., the New York Public Library's print and drawing collection,
The Fine Arts Museum Houston, The Getty Museum, The Library of Congress, US Embassy, Ethiopia;
Fidelity Investments, Boston, Mass; SCAD Permanent Collection; Atlanta, Georgia; Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM;
The Progressive Collection, Grand Palais Museum, Paris, France; Agnes Gund Collection, New York, NY;
The Grinnell College Art collection, Grinnell, IA; BJC Center For Advanced Medicine, St. Louis, MO;
K&K Collection, Monaco, France
Education: MFA University of California, Berkeley
Selected Reviews:
Jia, Lin, Valerie Hammond, The Soft Hands That Traveled Through time, Art World 280, China, November, 2014
Ebony, David, Artfully Haunted Hudson House Features Kiki Smith, Seton Smith, Valerie Hammond, Art in America, June 12, 2014
Isaacs, John. Midsummers Dream, Three Artists at the Bronson House, Local Culture, June 8, 2014
Palmer, James, Printmakers Pushing the Envelope of their Art
The Riverdale Press, November 28, 2013
Rees, Lucy, Streaming Spirits IN Lacoste, Flash Art, October 2012
Baran, Jessica, Mark Making at SLU, Riverfront Times, October 18,2012
Wei, Lily, Valerie Hammond and Kiki Smith are Not Afraid of Ghost,
Art in America, July 16, 2012
Rosenweig, Zach, The Paper Project, Bomb Magazine,
September 12, 2011
Mattera, Joan, Fiber and Wax, Surface design Magazine, 2011
Shulman, Ken, Valerie Hammond, Walker Contemporary Boston, ArtNews, June 2010
McQuaid, Cate, Dark and Delicate, Valerie Hammond,
The Boston Globe, March 17, 2010
Gordon, Amanda, The Belle of Wave Hill, The New York Sun, 2007
Smith, Kiki, Curators Statement: Valerie Hammond, catalogue,
The Cue Art Foundation 2006
Grants and Residency’s
2017 Artist-in-Residency, Awagami Paper Factory, Tokushima, Japan
2016 Artist-in-Residency, Clo Cill Rialaig, County Kerry, Ireland
(Print edition published)
2015 Artist-in-Residency, Clo CillRialaig, County Kerry, Ireland
(Print edition published)
2014 Artist-in-Residency, Clo Cill Rialaig, County Kerry, Ireland
(Print edition published)
2013 Artist-in-Residency, Clo Cill Rialaig, County Kerry, Ireland
(Print edition published)
2012 NewYork Foundation for the Arts Grant
2009 Peter S Reed Foundation Grant
2006 LMCC Artist Grant2002 New York Foundation for the Arts Grant