Anna Valdez
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Egon Investment Scores
Liquidity
3/10
How easily works can be bought and sold at auction
Institutional
7/10
Museum collections, biennials, and institutional recognition
Momentum
7/10
Recent price trends, gallery moves, and market buzz
Discovery
3/10
Undervaluation opportunity relative to peer artists
Risk
4/10
Investment risk factors — higher means more volatile
Market Position
- Liquidity
- Low - primarily primary market, minimal secondary market activity
- Collector Base
- Contemporary art collectors interested in still life, pattern-based work, and artists with institutional backing
- Primary Market
- Status
- Active primary market through multiple galleries
- Availability
- Regular solo and group exhibitions with new work available through representing galleries
- Market Segment
- Contemporary still life and ceramic works, primary market through galleries
- Representation
- OCHI Gallery (Los Angeles, Sun Valley), Hashimoto Contemporary (San Francisco, New York), previously Dianna Witte Gallery (Toronto)
- Price Indicators
- Mid-range contemporary pricing typical of emerging-to-mid-career artists with museum validation
- Auction History
- Status
- NO SECONDARY MARKET DATA FOUND
- Conclusion
- Artist operates primarily in the primary market through gallery representation. No evidence of active secondary market.
- Search Note
- No auction results identified for Anna Valdez (b. 1985) at major auction houses (Christie's, Sotheby's, Phillips) in 2024-2025
- Market Trajectory
- Steady upward trajectory with increasing institutional validation (Crystal Bridges, North Carolina Museum of Art acquisitions) and expanding gallery representation
- Geographic Markets
- United States (California, New York), expanding internationally (China exhibitions 2023)
Institutional Presence
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Bentonville, ARNorth Carolina Museum of Art
Raleigh, NCNew Britain Museum of American Art
New Britain, CTThe Columbus Museum
Columbus, GAAmerican Museum of Ceramic Arts (AMOCA)
Pomona, CAPérez Art Museum Miami
Miami, FLPhyllis & Ross Escalette Permanent Collection
Chapman University, Orange, CAMicrosoft Art Collection
Seattle, WAXiao Museum
Rizhao, China- Exhibitions
Title Year Dates Venue Location Significance Type The Nature of Things — November 10, 2023 - March 24, 2024 Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) Raleigh — Museum solo exhibition Solo Bird's Eye View — September - December 2023 Dangxia Art Space Beijing, China First solo exhibition in China Solo My Own Private Arcadia — November 6 - December 18, 2021 OCHI Gallery Los Angeles Featured in Artforum 'Must-See Shows' Solo Objects of Affection 2020 — Hashimoto Contemporary San Francisco Third solo with gallery Solo Natural Curiosity 2019 — Hashimoto Contemporary New York City Debut monograph published Solo The Beyond: Georgia O'Keeffe & Contemporary Art — — — — Traveling museum exhibition pairing with canonical artist Group NADA New York 2022 — Pier 36 — Solo booth presentation by OCHI Gallery, featured in New York Times review Fair - Museum Collections
- Curatorial Interest
- Strong and increasing - museum solo exhibition 2023-2024, inclusion in Georgia O'Keeffe traveling exhibition, acquisitions by major regional museums
- Awards and Recognition
- Featured artist at Crystal Bridges Museum (#ArtistatCB program)
- Getty Marrow Intern featured artist at AMOCA
- Juried prizes at Danforth Museum (Framingham, MA) and Sanchez Art Center (Pacifica, CA)
- Featured in New American Paintings (Issues 127, 139, 155)
Career & Biography
- Career
- Emergence
- First solo exhibitions began around 2015 after completing MFA
- Early Career
- Artistic career began unexpectedly during an archaeological dig in Ireland, where she kept a sketchbook reinterpreting spaces, maps, and lived experiences
- Current Status
- Established mid-career contemporary artist with national museum presence and strong gallery representation
- Identity
- Studio Practice
- Creates epic tableaux in her studio, moving seamlessly between still life and landscape painting, collecting objects and making new ones. Works across painting, ceramics, printmaking, collage, and digital media
- Current Location
- Los Angeles, California
- Artistic Background
- With academic background in archaeology and socio-cultural anthropology, Valdez views artists as cultural producers. Her anthropology training heavily influences her work and workflow, examining how objects form cultural identity
- Artistic Context
- Personal Influences
- Mother was a quilter (influences pattern work), father was an arborist (influences plant-heavy compositions), family photographs and recipes, and domestic environment
Artistic Profile
- Style
- Scale
- Range from small to large-scale (up to 85 x 80 inches for major works)
- Palette
- Hyper-vibrant spectrum - fuchsia, electric blue, tiger orange, violet, hot pink, saturated hues
- Technique
- Oil on canvas, ceramic sculpture, printmaking, digital media, collage
- Composition
- Maximalist, densely packed, collapse of foreground/background, epic tableaux, immersive installations on canvas
- Subject Matter
- Still life arrangements, domestic objects, collected items (shells, plants, books, ceramics, textiles, taxidermy), landscape paintings within paintings
- Distinctive Elements
- Patterned fabrics, lush greenery, recurring objects painted multiple times, layering of representation (object + its depiction + its abstraction)
- Evolution
- Progression from simpler compositions to increasingly dense, maximalist arrangements. Expansion from painting into ceramics (2019+) with vessels becoming subjects within paintings. Growing international ambition with scale and complexity.
- Influences
- Personal
- Mother's quilting, father's arboriculture, family recipes and photographs, California culture
- Conceptual
- Anthropology, archaeology, material culture studies, feminist approaches to domestic space
- Art Historical
- 16th century Dutch still life, Post-Impressionism (Henri Matisse), Georgia O'Keeffe, contemporary still life revival
- Themes and Subjects
- Collective consciousness and cultural formationPersonal identity through material cultureObjects as emblematic of personal and collective experienceMemory and domestic archaeologyContemporary cabinets of curiosityVisual autobiography through still life
- Movements and Periods
- Mid 2010s
- Consolidation of signature style - vibrant, pattern-heavy domestic tableaux
- Early 2010s
- Post-MFA development - exploring still life framework with anthropological lens
- Late 2010s Present
- Expansion into ceramics, increasing scale and density, museum-level ambition
- Art Historical Positioning
- Positioned within contemporary still life revival, intimism movement (artists inspired by private spaces), and feminist reclamation of domestic subjects. Bridges contemporary painting with craft traditions (ceramics, textiles)
- Techniques and Mediums
- Works from life but doesn't adhere to it - creates multiple realities, perspectives, and portals. Assembles groupings then creates multiple iterations through painting, ceramics, digital drawings. 'Invention through observation'
Critical Reception
- Critical Reception
- Monographs
Title Year Publisher Natural Curiosity 2019 Paragon Books Works Sighted 2017 Hashimoto Contemporary - Academic Attention
- Featured in Boston University CFA Magazine (2020), Crystal Bridges educational programs, visiting artist lectures at Missouri State University (2023), teaching position at Santa Rosa Junior College
- Critical Consensus
- Recognized for examining relationship between objects, cultural formation, and collective consciousness through maximalist still life compositions. Critics position her within contemporary intimism movement and praise anthropological approach to domestic objects.
- Publications and Media
- Major Publications
Title Date Significance Publication At NADA, a Glorious Collision of Paintings and Ceramics May 5, 2022 Major national press coverage The New York Times — November 2021 Top-tier critical validation Artforum Intimism Revisited: The New Generation of Artists Inspired By Their Private Spaces August 11, 2024 Positioned within contemporary movement Artnet — — Regular coverage in contemporary art magazine Juxtapoz Magazine Pick of the Week: Anna Valdez at OCHI December 2021 Los Angeles critical recognition Artillery Magazine — — Contemporary art criticism platform Hyperallergic Tour Mindy Kaling's Cheerful Los Angeles House July 2020 Collector visibility - celebrity collection Architectural Digest Vibrant Flora Paintings are an Archaeological Portrait of Life November 2016 Cultural platform coverage VICE Artist Anna Valdez brings her eye for detail to digital painting October 24, 2016 Design/illustration world recognition It's Nice That
Gallery & Representation
- Fair Presence
- NADA New York (2022 - solo presentation)Context Miami (2017, 2019)Art Market San FranciscoUNTITLED Art FairDallas Art Fair
- Representation
- Gallery Trajectory
- Steady progression from Oakland/Sacramento galleries (2013-2015) to established West Coast representation (Hashimoto 2017+) to bicoastal presence (OCHI LA 2021+) to international (China, Singapore 2023)
- Secondary Representation
Location Gallery Singapore 39+ Art Space Denver, CO David B. Smith Gallery New York, NY Alexander Berggruen San Francisco, CA Eleanor Harwood Gallery
- Geographic Reach
- Strong West Coast base (California), expanding East Coast (New York), international foothold (China, Singapore)
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