Claudia X. Valdes is an intermedia artist and educator concerned primarily with issues of time, memory, and perception. She was born in Santiago, Chile.

Valdes received an MFA and was awarded the Eisner Prize in Art from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001. She was an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts from 2001-2003. Her work has been exhibited internationally including at venues such as: the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; WRO Center for Media Art, Wroclaw, Poland; the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA; the UCR/California Museum of Photography; Art in General, New York; Centro Multimedia/Centro National de las Artes, Mexico; and the Werkstätten und Kulturhaus, Austria. Recent awards include an Honorable Mention at the 2006 Transmediale festival for art and digital culture in Berlin, Germany.

Valdes developed and taught digital media art courses at UC Berkeley, the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media at the University of Washington, Seattle, UC Santa Cruz, and at Mills College and Stanford University as a Visiting Artist. Academic honors include a Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities faculty appointment within the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington.

She is Assistant Professor of Electronic Arts and Associate Director of ARTS Lab [Art, Research, Technology & Science Laboratory] at the University of New Mexico.

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UPCOMING
EVENTS + NEWS:

[January 2009]
SOLO EXHIBITION
LAWRIMORE Project
Seattle, WA

[October 2008]
artwork included in UK book:
Human Futures: Art in an
Age of Uncertainty
edited by Dr. Andiy Miah