VAlERIE ESCOBEDO
EDUCATION
2005 MFA Painting, Miami University, Oxford, OH
1997 BFA Two Dimensional Studies, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2007-Present Assistant/Associate Professor, Department of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Findlay, Findlay, OH
2013-2022 Chair of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Findlay, Findlay, OH
2006-2007 Lecturer, Department of Art, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Habitat, ArtSpace, Lima, OH – group, invitational
Scenes from the Sullivans, ArtSpace, Lima, OH – group, curated from collection
2022 Remains to be Seen, Lea Gallery, Findlay, OH – two-person, invitational
2021 Faculties of Fine Art: Works from the Collection, Northwest Arts Center, Minot, ND – group, curated
2019 On Being: Realism and the BGSU School of Art, Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI; ArtLink, Ft. Wayne, IN; ArtSpace, Lima, OH - group, invitational
2018 The Exhibit Committee Exhibit, ArtSpace, Lima, OH - group, invitational
2017 Milestones: A Celebration of BGSU School of Art Alumni, Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery, Bowling Green, OH - group, invitational
Department of Art Faculty and Alumni Exhibition, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH - juried group exhibition
2016 Structural Evidence, Grace Albrecht Gallery, Bluffton, OH – two-person, invitational
2015 Inanimate Nature, Owens Community College, Findlay, OH – solo, invitational
2014 Professoriate, ArtSpace, Lima, OH - group, invitational
2013 The Art of Food, The Carnegie, Covington, KY – group, national call for artists
2012 Recent Works, Gateway Arts Council Gallery, Sidney, OH – two-person, invitational
2011 Artful Teaching, Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH – group
Diners, Walter E. Terhune Gallery, Toledo, OH – group
2009 In The Beginning, Grace Albrecht Gallery, Bluffton, OH – group
2007 Untitled Exhibition, Fitton Center for Creative Arts, Hamilton, OH – solo
The Time it Takes, Roy G Biv Gallery, Columbus, OH – two-person
Three Women, One Language, Grace Albrecht Gallery, Bluffton, OH – three-person
2006 Visiting Artists/New Faculty, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus, OH – group
2005 Visiting Artists/New Faculty, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus, OH – group
Distilled Intimacy, Robert E. and Martha Hull Lee Gallery, Oxford, OH – solo
2004 Five + Four, Hiestand North Gallery, Oxford, OH – group
JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2024 International All Media, Northwest Arts Center, Minot, ND – international - Merit Award and Purchase Award
Spring Show, ArtSpace, Lima, OH - Best of Show
Must Have Wheels, Findlay Art League, Findlay, OH - Second Place
2023 Small Works, Harper College, Palatine, IL – national
2022 Spring Show, ArtSpace, Lima, OH
Findlay Art League Juried Exhibition, Findlay, OH - Merit Award
2021 Wassenberg Art Center Juried Exhibition, Van Wert, OH - Charles F. Wassenberg Award
2017 Spring Show, ArtSpace, Lima, OH - Martha Gaustad Award for Drawing
2014 Americas 2014: All Media, Northwest Arts Center, Minot, ND – national - Merit Award and Purchase Award
Wassenberg Art Center Juried Exhibition, Van Wert, OH - Robin Carol Cartwright Memorial Award
Findlay Art League Juried Exhibition, Findlay, OH - Honorable Mention
2012 National Small Oil Painting Exhibition, Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS
Americas 2012: All Media, Hartnett Hall Gallery, Minot, ND - national
Fine Arts Juried Exhibition, Ohio State Fair, Columbus, OH
Small Works, Harper College, Palatine, IL - national
Expo 31, BJ Spoke Gallery, Huntington, NY - national
Spring Show, ArtSpace, Lima, OH - First Place Award
2011 Toledo Area Artists Exhibition, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
2010 Ohio Art League Fall Juried Exhibition, Shot Tower Gallery, Columbus, OH
Head First, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH - international
Nude 2, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH - international
Spring Show, ArtSpace, Lima, OH - Painting Award
26th LaGrange National, LaGrange Art Museum, LaGrange, GA - national
Wee Bitty Things, The Murphy Art Center, Indianapolis, IN - nationa
2009 Wassenberg Art Center Juried Exhibition, Van Wert, OH
2007 20th Annual Northern Nat. Juried Art Competition, Nicolet College, Rhinelander WI - Howard and Marge Lovestead Award
Fine Arts Juried Exhibition, Ohio State Fair, Columbus, OH - Best of Show Professional Division
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
2016 Manifest Press, International Drawing Annual 11
2012 Manifest Press, International Painting Annual 3
2011 Getty Symposium – Romanticism to Modernism in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture, Miami University, Oxford, OH – Invitational. Title of Presentation: Ambiguous
Spaces: An Analysis of the Decorative Paintings of Vuillard, Bonnard and Matisse
2010 Manifest Press, International Painting Annual 1
AWARDS
2025 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award