Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Education
2003 MFA in Painting, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn NY
1998 BFA in Illustration, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI.
Contact
kristievalentine76 [at] gmail [dot] com
Intstagram
@kristievalentine
Artist Statement
Kristie Valentine is a multidisciplinary artist working across drawing, painting, collage, and printmaking. Her practice traces connections between landscape, memory, and inherited forms of making. Drawing on her family’s Sicilian heritage, Valentine engages narratives that continue to shape her work. Stories, return visits, and memories of the Sicilian landscape inform her visual vocabulary, from the colors to the presence of handmade crafts such as the sewing and embroidery traditions of her grandmother and great-grandmother.
Valentine’s work begins in direct engagement with her physical surroundings by tracing, rubbing, and photographing the surfaces she encounters, from the pavement beneath her feet to the facades of buildings. Guided by memory and intuition, her work explores how surface, pattern, and gesture can hold and transmit lived experience. Through this process, she is not only recording her environment but developing an expansive and evolving language of mark-making that acts as an embodiment of her movements through space.
She approaches paper as a tactile, responsive surface through layering, pressing, and composing. Her compositions are often cut apart and reassembled, giving new presence to fragments that might otherwise be overlooked. This iterative act of disruption and reconstruction reflects the nature of memory itself; partial, shifting, and continually re-formed. Her works become sites of convergence, where material, memory, and gesture intersect.
Artist Bio
Kristie Valentine is based in Brooklyn, NY where she maintains a live/work studio. She received a BFA in illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in Painting from Brooklyn College. Since 2003, Valentine has taught art at The Cathedral School of St. John the Divine, in NYC.
From 20004-2014, she was an active participant of the non-profit printmaking studio, the Manhattan Graphics Center, where she served as Vice President of the Board of Directors from 2015-2021. She has participated in the NYC Crit Club and collaborative printmaking projects with Totemic 17. In 2022, she was awarded the Brother Justin Fellowship at the Orein Artists Residency in Pine City, New York. Her work is currently included in New Practices in Italian American and Italian Diasporic Contemporary Art, curated by Rosa Bertrand at the Calandra Institute for Italian American Studies in New York City.
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Education
2003 MFA in Painting, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn NY
1998 BFA in Illustration, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Intersections, Woodcut and Silkscreen prints Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY
2016 Groundscapes, Woodcut and Mokulito prints, Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY
Selected Exhibitions
2026 New Practices in Italian American and Italian Diasporic Contemporary Art, 2026, Calandra Institute for Italian American Studies, NYC
2022 Women's Printmaking Invitational 2022, Kent State University at Stark, OH
2015 Relief Efforts, Shoestring Press, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Undone, Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY
2013 Faculty Biennial, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
2013 Printercourse, Launchpad Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Postcards from NY, Barristers Gallery, New Orleans, LA. Curated by Christopher Saucedo
2011 Altered States - The Printmakers Process, Sharon Goldberg, Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2011 Constructions, Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY. Solo exhibit
2010 Form and Meaning, An Exhibition of Brooklyn Painters, Saint Francis College, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Four Under Thirty-Four, Kleinert-James Art Center, Woodstock, NY
Residencies and Awards
2017 Totemic 17 Printmaking Collaboration, MoMA Department of Prints and Printmaking. New York, NY
2015 Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO
2014 Mayapple Center for Arts & Humanities, Mayapple CT
Professional Experience
2003 - present Lower School Art Instructor - grades Kindergarten - 3rd, The Cathedral School, New York, NY.
2015 - 2021 Board of Directors, Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY
2015 - 2020 Figure Drawing Instructor, Framestore, New York, NY.
2006 - 2014 Adjunct Faculty, Adelphi University Department of Art, Garden City, NY