No Fate, 2026
Inkjet, acrylic, glass and gel medium on canvas
183 × 142 cm / 72 × 56 in
Aguirre, the Wrath of God, 2026
Enamel, black obsidian and holes on canvas
48 × 63.5 cm
Muse of Incommunicability, 2025
gesso on canvas
40 × 60
Fat Girl, 2025
Acrylic on linen
45.7 × 61 cm
To Lori, 2025
Inkjet and acrylic on canvas
122 × 91 cm
Working Girl, 2023
oil, acrylic and ink transfer on linen
76.20 × 152.40 cm
Risk Management, 2022
Ink, Acrylic and gouache on antique French dowry linen
112 × 142 cm
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:
16, Soft Opening, London (2026)
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 (2026)
Post Fair, Los Angeles (2025)
The Armory Show’s Gramercy International Prize, New York (2023)
Press:
Heni News – Valentina Vaccarella (2026)
Rob Repport – 3 Emerging Artists With Must-See Shows to See This Fall (2023)
XIBT Magazine – Valentina Vaccarella / Bless this life (2022)
Interview Magazine – Valentina Vaccarella and Richard Kern on Pimps and Madams (2022)