Val Britton

Born in Livingston, NJ
Lives and works in San Francisco, CA

Education

2006	MFA, California College of the Arts, San Francisco / Oakland, CA
1999	BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI French Coursework, Brown University, Providence, RI Study Abroad, Edinburgh College of Art / Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop, Scotland

Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions

2013	Cosmology, Foley Gallery, New York, NY (June 5 - July 3, 2013) Terra Incognita, CES Contemporary, Laguna Beach, CA (June 1-30, 2013) 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, CA Infinite Loop: Art + Sound by Val Britton and John Colpitts, Secret Project Robot Gallery, 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

Selected Group Exhibitions

2013	Journey Forth: Contemporary Landscape Between Technology and Tradition, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, CA (July 11 - August 31, 2013) Mapping the Terrain, the Mills Building, San Francisco, CA Kala-fornia: State of the Art 3, Kala Art Institute and Gallery, Berkeley, CA Quadrivium, CES Contemporary, Laguna Beach, CA Millennial Abstractions, Marin Community Foundation, Novato, CA The Art of Recology: The Artist in Residence Program 1990-2012, SFO Museum, Terminal 3, Gallery F2, San Francisco, CA Are We Where Yet? A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2012	Clique, CES Contemporary, Laguna Beach, CA Continue to Continue, CES Contemporary, Laguna Beach, CA Disposable Culture, The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Washington, DC Inked Surfaces, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA Art from the Dump , 1045 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
2011	SLASH: An International Survey of Contemporary Collage, CES Contemporary, Laguna Beach, CA 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, Michigan 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) Art Center, Richmond, CA Ucross Retrospective Exhibition, Ucross Foundation Art Gallery, Clearmont, Wyoming

2010	Mapping: Memory and Motion in Contemporary Art, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY Ucross, Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, Wyoming Constructed Territory, Wright State University, Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries, Dayton, OH OCAC Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Hoffman Gallery, Portland, OR Residency Projects I, Kala Art Institute and Gallery, Berkeley, CA I’m Sure, the SHOP at blankspace, Oakland, CA
2009	GeoMorph: New Currents in Geometric and Biomorphic Abstraction, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA Salon No. 2: Works 030-065, 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, California Vital Signs, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA Raw Boundaries, KN Gallery, Chicago, IL SFMOMA Art Auction 2008, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA Optic Illusion: Southern Exposure's Annual Art Auction, SomArts, San Francisco, CA Amidst the Ruins: New Work by Val Britton, Michael Damm, and Zachary Scholz, 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 Time Lines, Mina Dresden, San Francisco, California
2006	1st Annual Gift Show and Sale, 301 Bocana Gallery, SF, CA 26th Annual Fall Auction San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA Dowser’s Delight: Divining the Inner Cartographic Impulse The Front Gallery, Oakland, CA New California Masters, Works/San José, San José, CA Graduate Exhibition, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA Ocean Crossing: Osaka University of Arts + CCA Print Exchange, Oliver Art Center, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA New Prints 2006/Winter International Print Center, New York, NY Go. #2: Space/Time, Varnish Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2005-2006	People, Places & Things, The Gallery at R & F, Kingston, NY
2005	Ocean Crossing: Osaka University of Arts + CCA Print Exchange, Osaka University of Arts, Osaka, JAPAN Entangled Orbits: You Could Be Me, PLAySPACE Gallery, SF, CA 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
2004-2006	Multiple Encounters: Indo – US Print Exhibition The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, INDIA Govt. College of Art, Chandigarh, INDIA Rajasthan Lalit Kala Akademy & Jawahar Kalakendra, Jaipur, INDIA Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY
2004	Postcards from the Edge Visual AIDS Benefit Brent Sikkema, New York, NY Pattern & Decorations, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL Make It Pretty: work by Theresa Bloise, Val Britton, and Amy Lombardo, 60 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY The 4th National Minnesota Print Biennial, The 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, The New York Public Library, Tompkins Square Branch, New York, NY

Awards, Grants, Fellowships & Residencies

2013	Creative Capacity Fund, Center for Cultural Innovation, San Francisco, CA- Quick Grant Recipient
2012	San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA- Public Art Commission for San Francisco International Airport Visiting Artist Residency, Illinois State University School of Art, Normal, Illinois- Artist Residency
2011	Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY - Artist Residency Caldera, Sisters, OR - Artist Residency

2010	The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc., New York, NY - Grant The Jentel Artist Residency Program, Banner, WY - Artist Residency Recology (formerly SF Recycling & Disposal), San Francisco, CA - Artist Residency
2009	Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA - Fellowship Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR - Artist Residency Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, Wyoming - Artist Residency
2007-current	The Drawing Center, New York, NY - Viewing Program
2006-2008	Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA - Affiliate Artist Program
2004	California College of the Arts, Oakland, California Yozo Hamaguchi Teaching Assistantship
2001	Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY - Fall 2001 Grant Recipient
1999	Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, OR Emerging Artist Residency
1995-1999	Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island Rhode Island School of Design Annual Tuition Scholarship Rhode Island School of Design Alumni Scholarship G. W. Hodge Ritchie Award for Excellence in Printmaking

Visiting Artist Lectures & Presentations

2013	Talking Art Panelist, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California Guest Lecturer and Critic, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California Guest Critic, Graduate Studios, San Jose State University, San Jose, California Guest Critic, Graduate Seminar, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California
2012	Points of Departure: Trivial Pursuit Lecture Series, Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, California Visiting Artist Residency, Illinois State University School of Art, Normal, Illinois Advanced Drawing, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California
2011	Distinguished Majors Program Visiting Artist, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California Caldera Artist-in-Residency Program, Sisters, Oregon

2010	Jentel Presents, the Jentel Artist Residency Program, Sheridan, Wyoming Art at the Dump, Recology, San Francisco, California Fellowship Lecture, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California Advanced Drawing and Painting, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
2009	Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon Artist-in-Residence Lecture, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, Oregon Printmaking Department, Cabrillo College, Santa Cruz, California
2008	Painting Department, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA San Jose Museum of Art Docents, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

Selected Collections

Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Alameda County Art Collection, Oakland, CA
The Ellington, Oakland, CA
Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale, CA
Print Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
National September 11 Memorial & Museum, New York, NY
The New-York Historical Society, New York, NY
Print Collection, the New York Public Library, New York, NY
Recology, San Francisco, CA
SAP, Palo Alto, CA
Visa Inc., Foster City, CA