VAL BRITTON CURRICULUM VITAE Born 1977 in Livingston, NJ Lives and works in Seattle, WA EDUCATION 2006 M.F.A. California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA 1999 B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI French Coursework, Brown University, Providence, RI Study Abroad, Edinburgh College of Art / Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop, Scotland, UK SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2019 Val Britton: Upper Air, Palo Alto Arts Center, Palo Alto, CA 2018 The Shape of Change, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA 2016 Navigator, Patti and Rusty Rueff Galleries, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Transmissions, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, CA 2014 Val Britton: Passage, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, CA 2013 Cosmology, Foley Gallery, New York, NY Terra Incognita, CES Contemporary, Laguna Beach, CA Intimate Immensity, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA 2012 The Continental Interior, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA Kala Art Institute: Val Britton, Addison Street Window Gallery, Berkeley, California, CA Infinite Loop: Art + Sound by Val Britton and John Colpitts, Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY 2010 Index to Selected Stars: Recology Artist in Residence Program, Recology, San Francisco, CA 2009 The Echo Fields: Val Britton + Michael Meyers, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA 2007 Near and Far: New Work by Val Britton, 301 Bocana Gallery, San Francisco, CA SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019 The Sheltering Sky, Palo Alto Arts Center, Palo Alto, CA 2018 Art Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates 2017 Facebook AIR 5-Year Anniversary Show, The Lab, San Francisco, CA Seeking Civilization: Art and Cartography, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, CA Detritus, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA 2016 Made in Paint, Golden Artist Colors, New Berlin, New York, NY Demarcate: Territorial Shift in Personal and Societal Mapping, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA 2015 Work in Progress: Investigations South of Market, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA Trashed and Treasured, Napa Valley Museum, Yountville, CA Djerassi: A Legacy, Ascent Private Capital Management, San Francisco, CA Front Yard/Backstreet, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA Group Hang, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, CA The Art of Recology, Voila! Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2014 Collage, Then and Now, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA Cosmic Needs, Dossier Outpost, New York, NY Make Art, Not Landfill, The Mills Building, San Francisco, CA Deciphering the Print, California College of the Arts, College Avenue Galleries, Oakland, CA 2013 Reduce, Reuse, Re-imagine, The de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA Journey Forth, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco; traveled to Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, CA Mapping the Terrain, The Mills Building, San Francisco, CA Millennial Abstractions, Marin Community Foundation, Novato, CA The Art of Recology: The Artist in Residence Program 1990-2012, SFO Museum, San Francisco, CA Are We Where Yet? A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2012 Disposable Culture, The American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC Inked Surfaces, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA Art From the Dump, Curated by Recology, 1045 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 2011 The Collage Show, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA Here Be Dragons: Mapping Information and Imagination, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA Topophilia, Work-Detroit Gallery, University of Michigan, Detroit, MI Kala Art Institute, The Mills Building, San Francisco, CA Life of the World to Come: Chase the Tear, National Institute of Art and Disabilities (NIAD), Richmond, CA Ucross Retrospective Exhibition, Ucross Foundation Art Gallery, Clearmont, WY 2010 Mapping: Memory and Motion in Contemporary Art, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, NY Ucross, Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY Constructed Territory, Robert & Elaine Stein Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH OCAC Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR Residency Projects I, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA 2009 Salon #2, Marine, Santa Monica, CA LA to OC - Emphasis: EXTREME, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA My Certain Fate, Pharmaka, Los Angeles, CA All Over the Map, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI Collective Compulsions, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA 2008 Road Trip, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA Vital Signs, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA Amidst the Ruins, Mission 17, San Francisco, CA Out of the Fog: Artists from Headlands, Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, CA Close Calls: 2008, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA 2007 There’s No Place Like Here, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA Excavations, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA 2006 New California Masters, Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA Ocean Crossing: Osaka University of Arts + CCA 2006 Print Exchange, Oliver Art Center, California College of the Arts, Oakland, A New Prints 2006 / Winter, International Print Center, New York, NY 2005 Visual Scholars: New School, Up and Coming Southern California Artists, Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, CA Ocean Crossing: Osaka University of Arts + CCA Print Exchange, Oliver Art Center, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA; Traveled to Osaka University of Arts, Osaka, Japan 2004 Multiple Encounters: Indo–US Print Exhibition, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi; Government College of Art, Chandigarh, India; Rajasthan Lalit Kala Akademy & Jawahar Kalakendra, India; Jaipur, India; Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY The 4th National Minnesota Print Biennial, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 2003 Manhattan Graphics Center 9/11 Portfolio, The New York Historical Society, New York, NY New York Scenes and Dreams, New York Public Library, Tompkins Square Branch, New York, NY GRANTS, AWARDS, AND RESIDENCIES 2019 Cuttyhunk Island Artists’ Residency, Cuttyhunk, MA 2015 Vermont Studio Center, Full Fellowship Artist Residency, Johnson, VT Fleishhacker Foundation, Eureka Fellowship, San Francisco, CA San Francisco Arts Commission, Public Art Commission, SFO International Airport, San Francisco, CA The Sam & Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, New Berlin, Artist Residency, New York, NY 2014 Djerassi Resident Artists Program, The Kathryn Green Fellowship, Woodside, CA Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE 2013 Facebook, Facebook Analog Research Lab Residency, Menlo Park, CA 2012 Illinois State University School of Art, Visiting Artist Residency, Normal, IL 2011 Millay Colony for the Arts, Artist Residency Austerlitz, New York, NY Caldera, Artist Residency, Sisters, OE 2010 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc., Grant Recipient, New York, NY Jentel Artist Residency Program, Artist Residency, Banner, WY Recology, Artist Residency, San Francisco, CA 2009 Kala Art Institute, Fellowship, Berkeley, CA Oregon College of Art and Craft, Artist Residency Portland, OE Ucross Foundation, Artist Residency, Clearmont, WY 2006 Headlands Center for the Arts, Affiliate Artist Program (2006-2008), Sausalito, CA SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY “Artist Val Britton Maps out a Territory of Mind and Space,” City of Palo Alto, January 2019 Charles Desmarais, “Britton makes inequality concrete,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 2018 McIntosh, Monique, “Val Britton Charts Her Own Path With Map-Inspired Art,” LUXE Magazine, February, 2018 Madeline Buxton, “At Facebook, Art Becomes A Metaphor For What The Company Wants To Achieve,” Refinery29, September 2017 BOOOOOOOM, “Artist Spotlight: Val Britton,” July 2017 Emma Flick, “New Rueff Gallery exhibition uses mapping to evoke space and time,” Purdue Exponent, 2016 Sarah Hotchkiss, “Art that Makes Missing Your Flight OK,” KQED Arts, October 2015 Harper’s Magazine, “Val Britton’s Retrograde,” September 2015 Kimberly Chun, “25 Years of turning garbage into art,” San Francisco Chronicle, August 2015 Barbara Morris, “Val Britton,” Artillery, September 2014 Kenneth Baker, “Exhibits of work by György Kepes, Val Britton,” San Francisco Chronicle, 25 July 2014 David M. Roth, “Artist Profile: Val Britton,” Squarecylinder, 14 July 2014 Adriana Villagran, “Traversing Abstraction,” Venison Magazine, 16 June 2014 Eleven Eleven, A Journal of Literature & Art, Issue 15, September 2013 Kimberly Chun, “’Journey Forth’: Maps inspire abstract works,” San Francisco Chronicle, 31 July 2013 Hannah Ostrow, "Un-dimensional: Dutch painter Jan Maarten and San Francisco-based collage artist Val Britton go beyond bridging the gap between two and three dimensions: They make the gap virtually irrelevant," Laguna Beach Magazine, June 2013 Chérie Louise Turner, “Artist Profile: Val Britton,” art ltd, May/June 2013 David M. Roth, “Val Britton at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art,” Squarecylinder, 30 April 2013 Michele Carlson, “The Continental Interior” Art Practical, Issue 4.7, January 2013 Alex Bigman, “SF Artist Val Britton’s ‘Continental Interior’ Installation Comes to Civic Center’s SFAC Gallery,” 7x7, 14 November 2012 Nikki Grattan (writer) and Klea McKenna (photographer) “In the Make: Studio Visits with West Coast Artists—Val Britton, Collage Artist, San Francisco,” IN THE MAKE, June 2012 Folha de S.Paolo, “O Papel Do Papel,” Serafina magazine, May 2012 Jesse Jarnow, “Live: Man Forever and People of the North Plant Flag at Secret Project Robot.” Village Voice, 17 Jan 2012 Christian L. Frock, “Recology