Tess, 2026
Working Girl, 2023
To Lori, 2025
Valentina Vaccarella (New York, 1993) lives and works in New York. Working across painting, photography, found material, and text, she examines the shifting boundaries between desire, performance, and contemporary image culture, focusing on the tension between lived experience and societal expectation. Using both found and self-generated material, she constructs visual narratives that explore how intimacy and identity are staged, circulated, and mythologized.
Selected solo exhibitions:
Cue Marks , sentiment (2026)
Baby I Am Mount Everest, Inter.pblc, Copenhagen (2025)
Maps to the Stars, Gaylord Fine Arts, Los Angeles (2025)
Coupure De Presse, Louis Reed, New York (2025)
Flash, Borgenheim Rosenhoff, Oslo (2024)
Selected group exhibitions:
Use Value, Jessamine & PRP, Dallas TX (2026)
Lovesick, Sentiment, Zurich (2025)
Reason Roulette, Essais, Paris (2025)
Why Dark is the Night 1943 Paintings Are Popular on TikTok in America, Alex Berns, New York (2025)
Skeletal Hand on the Glass Harmonica, Snow Gallery, New York (2025)
Pantheon, One Trick Pony, Los Angeles (2024)
Don’t Die, No Gallery, New York (2023)
Fairs:
Basel Social Club, Basel (upcoming)
Post Fair, Los Angeles (2025)
The Armory Show’s Gramercy International Prize, New York (2023)