Valerie Roybal

Biography
Valerie Roybal was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She currently lives and works in Albuquerque. She has a BA from the University of New Mexico, and she studied printmaking and book arts there for a number of years.

Roybal’s work has been shown in a number of exhibitions and venues, including the 2nd National Book and Paper Arts Biennial at Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts in Chicago; Tributaries and Unraveling Tradition, and New Mexico Showcase at 516 ARTS in Albuquerque; and Biennial Southwest ’08 at the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History. Her work can be seen in the book Cutting Edges: Contemporary Collage(Gestalten) andCUT and PASTE, 21st Century Collage (Laurence King Publishers).

Education
1994-2009
University of New Mexico, Advanced and Graduate studies in Printmaking and Book Arts, Albuquerque, NM

2000
Tamarind Institute, Collaborative Printmaking Program

1992
University of New Mexico, BFA, Albuquerque, NM

Exhibitions

For-Get-Me-Not, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

Amo ergo sum I love, therefore I am ,Sanitary Tortilla Factory, Albuquerque, NM

2018
Prelude, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
Boundless, Central Features, Albuquerque, NM

2017
Bee Dreams, Exhibit 208, Albuquerque, NM
Home, (s)and, artist collective, Group Exhibition, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
Tondo, (s)and, artist collective, Group Exhibition, Exhibit 208, Albuquerque, NM
Alcoves 16/17 #6, The New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
Non Finito: Unfinished Works and their Counterparts, Sanitary Tortilla Factory, Albuquerque, NM

2015
This Is What Happened, Heidi Pollard and Valerie Roybal, SCA Contemporary, Albuquerque, NM.
Foodie: On Eats, Eating, and Eateries in Albuquerque, Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM
Interchange/Encompass: 7th & Mountain, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM

2014
Carte Blanche, Group Collage Exhibition, Central Features, Albuquerque, NM
Adaptations: Visual Artists Work with Profound Disease and Illness, SCA Contemporary, Albuquerque, NM

2012
Mutations, Inpost Artspace at the Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque, NM
Borders and Boundaries, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
Spend it Like Water, South Broadway Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM
New Mexico Showcase: 516 ARTS Juried Anniversary Exhibition, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, NM

2011
All That Remains, Picture Farm, Brooklyn, NY
Cutters Berlin, Gestalten Space, Berlin, Germany
18 Days, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Cutters, West Cork Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland

2010
Unraveling Tradition, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, NM

2009
Small Prints, John Sommers Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

2008
Biennial Southwest ’08, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Book Lung, Finding a Pulse, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, NM
A Secret Language, Inpost Artspace at the Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque, NM

2007
A Sense of Duration, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
Paper Politics, An Exhibition of Politically & Socially Engaged Printmaking, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
Tributaries, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, NM

2006
Pushing Paper, Masley Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Paper Politics, An Exhibition of Politically & Socially Engaged Printmaking, 5 + 5 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2005
Paper Politics, An Exhibition of Politically & Socially Engaged Printmaking, Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle, WA

2003
Mark My Words, Magnifico 516 Artspace, Albuquerque, NM

2000
Soft Feelings, Tamarind Institute Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
The 2nd National Book and Paper Arts Biennial, Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL

Collections
National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM
Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
The New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
Tamarind Institute archive at UNM Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Bernalillo County Public Art Collection, Bernalillo, NM

Awards
2019
Fulcrum Fund
2015
Pollock-Krasner Artist Grant
2014
SCA Contemporary Artist Grant
Albuquerque Public Art, Tamarind Institute of Lithography “Foodie” Project
Adaptations: Visual Artists Work with Profound Disease and Illness, Group Exhibition and Book project, with Patrick Nagatani, Sheri Crider, and Amy Clinkscales), funded by the Albuquerque Community Foundation/FUND, Presbyterian Cancer Center, and private donors.

Press
2018
Pyrograph, Tranforming Catastophe, November

2017
20 x 200 Blog, Valerie Roybal Makes Collage Magic (+New Art!), March
Creatives, Albuquerque The Magazine, November 

2015
Be the Maker, New Mexico Magazine, December

2012
516 ARTS Blogspot, Studio Visit and Interview: Valerie Roybal, March
My Life with Paper, UPPERCASE Magazine 12, January

2013
Magazine Feature: Gallery Section, UPPERCASE Magazine 18, Summer

2011
the heart of art, Featured Artist: Valerie Roybal, November
CUT and Paste, 21st Century Collage, Laurence King Publishers, September
Cutting Edges: Contemporary Collage, Gestalten Publisher, February

2010
All is Not Lost, Uppercase Magazine, Issue 5, Uppercase Gallery, Spring  
Type Tuesday: Valerie Roybal’s collages, UPPERCASE Magazine Blog, Feburary 9

2009
Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today, PM Press

2007
1000 Journals Project, Chronicle Books

Press Release
2019 For-Get-Me-Not, Richard Levy Gallery