Resume


RESUME

Petra Valentová (aka Petra Gupta) creates sculptures and installations in public spaces, working with wood, bronze, stone as well as through sound and video. She also uses other mediums of expression like drawings, thematic books and public performances. Her work often examines questions of identity, memory, childhood experiences and her own personal history. She has experimented with fusion of traditional craft styles from ancient India with post-modern Western art. Her recent exhibitions included: Paper Proposes Pleasure & Sculptors (New York, 2009); Domestication (Pardubice, 2009); In Silence (Tel Aviv, 2008); Common Ground (Rauma, 2007); I Menstruate, So Should I Stay At Home (Prague 2004; Brno 2005); Contemporary Czech Sculpture 1995–2005 (Prague 2006). Her two installations "The Three Graces" (2008) and “Market Art / So Long Ago I Can’t Remember” are in the permanent collection of the Czech National Gallery since 2009 and 2003. In 2007, Jitro publishing house published her book "Searching for a Sámi / Cookbook," a record of a performance lasting several years that mapped the New York dating scene. In 2003, she received the Fulbright scholarship from the US Government for sculpture. Her artwork is in several private collections in Finland, the Czech Republic, India and the USA. Petra lives and works in New York City and continues to work extensively in Finland, India and her native Czech Republic. Petra graduated from the MGA program (2001) at the Akademie vytvarnych umeni (Academy of Fine Arts) in Prague, Czech Republic and the MFA program (2005) at Hunter College in New York City, USA. Petra Valentová is active members of tART, a New York City based collective of emerging women artists who are committed to making art professionally.

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS

	2010	tART @ A.I.R. 2010: What's In A Collective?, A.I.R. Gallery, Dumbo, NY Making and Sharing a Room of Our Own, Figment, Governors Island, NY A Lot of Possibilities, Winter Space, NYC

	2009	Mother/mother -, A.I.R. Gallery, Dumbo, NY – Keltner-Valentova, audio SummerSpace, group show, NYC Young Artists Showcase, GlobalWorks, NYC Tina B.* Festival, Vernon City Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic Marble and Mud, Artworks, Trenton, NJ Melting the Pot, Czech Center Gallery, NYC tART @ A.I.R. / Summer Salon Show, A.I.R. Gallery, Dumbo, NY Paper Proposes Pleasure & Sculptors, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, NYC NYAB 1st Anniversary Party and Exhibition, Dumbo Arts Center, NY Domestication, Gallery Mazhaus, Pardubice, Czech Republic – one-person show 19 years later, Czech Center, Berlin, Germany Nainsen Tila, Kemi Art Museum, Kemi, Finland

	2008	In Silence, Rothschild 69 Project, Tel Aviv, Israel Tina B., international art festival, Prague, Czech Republic EMERGING WOR(L)DS, Tina B., Billboard Text Art, Prague, Czech Republic National Juried Competition: Works of Art on Paper, LBI Foundation, Loveladies, NJ Pocket Film Festival, Pompidou Center, Paris, France – film ‘Sari’ Fauna & Flora, Gallery Kritiku, Prague, Czech Republic Lovely World of Fauna & Flora, Galeria Rajatila, Tampere, Finland - Czech contemporary art The Digital Stone Project, Mercerville, NJ iNDA, manifest international drawing annual 2007 exhibition-in-print, Cincinnati, OH Abstraction, Lana Santorelli Gallery, NYC MugShot, Underground Mafia, StudioLeena, NYC Edible Complex, Paloma, Williamsburg, NY – audio installation

	2007	Cooking Performance, Galerie kritiku, Palac Adria, Prague - performance Cooking Art, Galerie kritiku, Palac Adria, Prague Untitled, Subdivision Art, Long Island City, NY Tina B. - Mobile Video Art, Prague, Czech Republic Searching for a Sámi, Prague/NYC, Czech Republic/USA, published book Common Ground, Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, Finland - exhibition Laying Laces, Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, Finland - performance Cooking for Rauma, Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, Finland - performance The Cabbage Project, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY - with Hungarian Cultural Center Collector's Choices, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, NYC The Dating Show, 3rdWard Gallery, NY

	2006	Shifted Focus, Czech Center New York, NYC Horizons/Horizonty, Galerie Skolska, Praha Horizons/Horizonty, Galerie FaVU, Brno Horizons, Czech Embassy, Washington DC Bodily, Collision Machine, Williamsburg, NY Contemporary Czech Sculpture 1995 – 2005, Czech National Gallery, Veletrzni Palace, Prague

	2005	MFA Thesis Show, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, NYC This month I do menstruate (Tento mesic menstruuji), Dum Umeni, Brno Searching for the Sami, Umelec, Prague Toys, LES, NYC

	2004	Employment (Zamestnanost), Kladno This month I do menstruate (Tento mesic menstruuji), Art Factory Gallery, Prague Unreachable distance, Gallery Titanik, Turku, Finland

	2003	Employment (Zamestnanost), NOD Roxy Gallery, Prague Identity (Identita/Identiteetti), Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, Finland Employment (Zamestnanost), U Kamene Gallery, Cheb The Youngest (Nejmladsi), Veletrzni Palac, National Gallery, Prague Earth Time (Zeme Cas), Barokni kaple sv. Vaclava, Pacov Who Sows The Wind (Kdo seje vitr), Kritiku Gallery, Palac Adria, Prague Intermedia school, Jihoceska Gallery, Ceske Budejovice Mutants (Mutanti), Okamura Architect, Prague Biology II, Ustav Makromolekularni chemie AV CR, Prague 280 m2 Spalovka, Spalova Gallery, Prague Raumars Artist Residency, Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, Finland

	2002	Biology, U Bileho jednorozce Gallery, Klatovy Our Flowers (Nase kvetiny), Ustav Makromolekularni chemie AV CR, Prague Mapping Space, Sypka Gallery, International Summer Academy, Klenova Everything Petra (Vsechny Petry), U Kamene Gallery, Cheb

	2001	Child’s Dream (Kindertraum), Vratenin, CZE-Austria, Czech-Austrian project Prints (Otisky), New media Cheb 2001, U Kamene Gallery, Cheb Graduate students (Diplomanti AVU), Veletrzni palac, National Gallery, Prague Market Art, Tesco & Hypernova department stores, Prague

	2000	AVU 2000, Manes exhibit space, Prague Artes(t)co, Tesco department store, Prague, Czech-Japanese project UVA, NOD Roxy, Prague PULSE, Soros Centrum, Prague, new media exhibit

	1999	Inside and Outside (Vnitrni Vnejsi), AVU Gallery, Prague Gallows, Cooper Union, NYC

	1998	For First Time (Poprve), Kotelna Gallery, Prague, solo exhibition – plastic objects

	1997	Petra Goes Home, Art School Kankaanpää, Finland, solo exhibition – drawings


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