Amanda Valdez received her MFA from Hunter College in New York City and her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her most recent solo exhibitions include Gratitude at Denny Dimin Gallery in New York, Piecework at the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, New York, Rattle Around at KOKI Arts in Tokyo, Wild Child at the Landing Gallery in Los Angeles, and Ladies’ Night at the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College. Valdez has received artist residencies at the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Byrdcliffe, MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. She has received grants from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Hunter College, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the 2011 College Art Association MFA Professional-Development Fellowship. Her work is included in the collections of the Heckscher Museum of Art, Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, and Time Equities, Inc. in New York. Valdez’s work has been featured or reviewed in the LA Times, Brooklyn Rail, Whitewall, Newsday, Galerie Magazine, ARTNews, Forbes, Paper Magazine, and The Stranger, among others.