current and upcoming EXHIBITIONS
SOLO
Sept. 22 - Dec. 2, 2023
Art League Houston / Houston, TX
2023 Texas Artist of the Year: Vincent Valdez
Oct. 18 - Oct. 29, 2023
The Drawing Center / New York, NY
The Slaughterhouse-Five Drawings
Nov. 12, 2023 - August 11, 2024
Los Angeles County Museum of Art / Los Angeles, CA
Vincent Valdez and Ry Cooder: El Chavez Ravine
Fall 2024
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and MASS MoCA / Houston, TX and North Adams, MA
Just a Dream:A Twenty-Five Year Survey
GROUP
Through Sept. 27, 2025
Museum of Fine Arts Houston / Houston, TX
Hidden Histories
May 19, 2023 - March 10, 2024
El Museo del Barrio / New York, NY
Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección
Nov. 1, 2023 - January 31, 2024
Oglethorpe University Museum of Art / Atlanta, GA
Estampas de la Raza: Contemporary Prints from the Romo Collection
SELECTED SERIES
THE BEGINNING IS NEAR, AN AMERICAN TRILOGY, CH. 3: THE NEW AMERICANS (2021-)
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE (2023)
THE BEGINNING IS NEAR, AN AMERICAN TRILOGY, CH. 2: DREAM BABY DREAM (2018)
AMERICA’S FINEST (2012)
THE BEGINNING IS NEAR, AN AMERICAN TRILOGY, CH. 1: THE CITY (2016)
THE STRANGEST FRUIT (2013)
SINCE 1977 (2019)
AMNESIA (2023-)
STATIONS (2002-04)
EXCERPTS FOR JOHN (2010-12)
SELECTED WORKS
Vincent Valdez and Ry Cooder: El Chavez Ravine
2005-7 | oil on ice cream truck
Requiem
2016-19 | clay, cast bronze & ash | 72 x 58 x 32 inches
So Long, MaryAnn
2019 | oil on canvas | 54 x 72 inches
The Rope, (After Marsden Hartley)
2018 | oil pastel on paper | 28 x 42 inches
People of the Sun (Grandparents Santana)
2019 | oil on canvas | 42 x 60 inches
It Was Never Yours
2019 | oil on paper | 56 x 42 inches
TwoThousandandSeventeen
2017 | oil pastel on paper | 28 x 42 inches
Rise
2019 | oil on canvas
The Dream
2020 | oil on paper | 30 x 24 inches
Godspeed
2019 | oil/canvas | 52 x 84 inches
The Sea
2020 | oil on canvas | 36 x 48 inches
Eaten (In America) installation
2018-19 | oil on canvas | 54 x 184 inches
Kill The Pachuco Bastard!
2001 | oil on canvas | 42 x 72 inches
DRAWING JOURNAL
Somewhere In South Texas
2016 | ink on paper | 8.5 x 11 inches