Valerie Sullivan Fuchs
valeriesfuchs@gmail.com
Selected Group Exhibitions
Select Exhibitions
2018
The Video Art Project at the Louisville International Airport, Louisville, KY
2017
Spring/Break Art Show, 4 Times Square, New York, NY
Pyro Art Gallery, ENID Group exhibit, Louisville, KY
2016
Manifest, Magnitude 7 & Memory Palace, Cincinnati, OH
Now Here: Theoretical Landscapes The Carnegie, Covington, KY
Artlik/KMAC Community Collaboration Public Art Commission, Louisville, KY
Carnegie Center for Art and History, Marking Time, New Albany IN
Kentucky Visions 50/50 KAC Capitol Annex, Frankfort, KY
Lexington Legacy Trail, Public Art Program, Lexington, KY
2015
Resurfaced Event at Connect/Disconnect., Public Art Project, Louisville, KY
Blue: Matter, Mood, and Melancholy 21c Museum, Bentonville, AR
Now Here: Theoretical Landscapes The Carnegie, Covington, KY
TEDx University of Louisville, Acoustic Addiction - a video projection onto the Rauch Planetarium dome, Louisville, KY
2014
Blue: Matter, Mood, and Melancholy 21c Museum, Cincinnati, OH, (commissioned by 21c)
Luminosity http://www.under-main.com/luminosity-mobile/ Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY (commissioned by LAL)
Word/Object Swanson Contemporary, Louisville, KY
Ascent Cincinnati, Ohio curated by Elizabeth Leach Gallery, US Bank, Cincinnati, Ohio
Acoustic Landscape #13 (commission by private collector)
2013
Artwithoutwalls.org at the Idea Festival Acoustic Landscape, Kentucky Center for Art - Louisville, KY (commissioned by artwithoutwalls.org)
By the Numbers: Artebella, Public: LVAA downtown Gallery, Louisville, KY
First Lady’s Offices in the Capitol Frankfort, KY
offSITE LAL's Loudoun House Gallery, Lexington, KY
Chido Johnson's Love Library - Let's Talk About Love Baby iMOCA, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN,
http://letstalkaboutlovebaby.com/artists/valeriesullivanf.ht
Austin Peay State University, March
2012
University of Kentucky Faculty Show, September, University of Kentucky Museum of Art, Lexington KY
2010-11
Transparencies and Trans-formations: American Art at the Residence, American Embassy,Stockholm, Sweden
New Albany Bicentennial Public Art Project 2010-2011 New Albany, IN
Enid: Generations of Women Sculptors, Carnegie Center for Art and History, New Albany, IN (2011)
2010
LOT in Louisville, KY Nov.
Kentucky Visions, Kentucky State Capitol, Frankfort, Kentucky
2009
H2O; Film on Water, Great Rivers Arts, Bellows Falls, Vermont
Prospects: An Exploration on Mining , Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, Idaho
Kentucky Short Film and Video Festival, 21c Museum, Louisville, KY
Art Dialogues, presentation, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
After Dark Art Event, “I Need”, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, Video Collaboration with Ben Sollee
2008
On Procession: East meets West, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Solar Powered Light Boxes, installed in Fountain Square/ Virginia Ave., Indianapolis, IN
Mark of Great Art, Madrid, Spain - Oct.-Nov. 2008, Seattle, Washington & Lexington, Kentucky
2007
Live.Learn.Believe, Juried, Georgetown College,Georgetown, KY
2006
Nowhere, New Center for Contemporary Art, Louisville, KY
Parnu (Estonia) Film and Video Festival, Nongratta, Parnu, Estonia Nov.
International Installation of Video Art, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO
Uncommon Wealth, KAC Fellowship Show Lexington Art League, KY
2005
Presence, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Ky
Nowhere, Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz, Austria, Sept. 29-Nov.1
Video Integration BELEF, Belgrade, Serbia, June-July
V.I.P. Art Gallery, Student Cultural Center, Belgrade, Serbia, April 9th
Inside/Outside, Huff Gallery, Spaulding University Louisville, KYSept.25- Oct. 31
Swank, Santa Barbara Center for Contemporary Arts Forum Santa Barbara, CA, Feb.
2004
KY-CA, Santa Barbara Center for Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
2003
Kentucky National, Murray State University, Murray, KY March 6-April 6
2002
New Artists, New Work, New Name, Swanson-Reed Contemporary, Louisville,KY
soundScapes and interActors, A + D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
SIGNAL:NOISE, Swanson-Cralle, Louisville, KY, June 28-August 10
Play, Actors Theatre Gallery, Louisville, KY, March 8-April 13
Louisville Film and Video Festival, Baxter Ave. Theatre, Louisville, KY
2001
Invitational, Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, Clermont, KY, Nov. 3
Balance, Actors Theatre Gallery, Louisville, KY, October 21-November 15
About Skin, Swanson Cralle, Louisville, KY, July 11-August 18
2000
in::formation, Betty Rhymer, The School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Electronic Immersions, Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL
1999
neurectopia sine::apsis experimentsContemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL, Nov. 13-Jan.
1998
exocytosis, Environmental Earth Gallery, Chicago, IL September 11-October 17
Electronic Fields, Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago, IL, June 1-August 26
Touchware, SIGGRAPH 98, Art gallery, Orlando, FL, July 19-26
Graduate Exhibition, Gallery 2, SAIC, Chicago, IL, April 4-18
Uninhabited, Scholarship show, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL, Feb. 3-27
What’s So Funny, REFCO, Ltd., Chicago, IL, November 28 1997-Jan.4
1997
Electronic Immersions: Four Generations of Illinois Artists, Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Winter Count, Barr Gallery, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN
2009 Concrete Video, Greenbuilding Gallery, Louisville Ky
2008 boys don't cry, Gallery Nulu, Louisville, KY
2005 Presence, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
2003 Solo, Swanson Reed Contemporary, Louisville, KY
2001 Uninhabited, Artswatch, Louisville, KY
Selected Bibliography of Articles and Broadcast Media
2010
News and Tribune, New Albany, IN, Multi-phase art project builds awareness, Jan.23
LEO, Critic Pick, Louisville, KY Winter Count, Jan. 20
Courier-Journal, Louisville, KYHeilenman, Diane, On the Town, The Sound of Art, Jan.15
2009
Courier-Journal, Louisville, Heilenman, Diane, The Rising, Dec. 6
Courier-Journal, Louisville, Heilenman, Diane, Critics Picks, Thinking Out of Time, Sept. 27
Courier-Journal, Louisville, Heilenman, Diane, Critics Picks, Artists Summit, Sept. 13
2008
Art Papers, Review of Boys Don't Cry, Morrison, Marsha, May/June
LEO, Critic Pick, Boys Don't Cry, March
2007
WDRB, LEO, Critic Picks, Late Seating, Actors Theatre
2006
Presence, Edited by Robson, Julien, Published by Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Lexington Herald Leader, Castro, Heather, Displaying a Wealth of Talent, July 21
Pitch, Gardner, Ann Marie & Jordan, Jay, Nowhere , Spring
LEO, Peavler, Penny, ‘Nowhere’ is here, March 8
2005
Krone, Kulture, Eine Mittlier Statdt In America, Graz, Austria Oct. 21
Der Standard, Squaredance in Graz, Austria Oct. 13
Presse, Austria, Eugen Lendl, Nowhere, Oct. 3,
Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY, Video Art Takes Off, Aug. 28
Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY Heilenman, Diane, A Growing ‘Presence’, Feb.26
2004
LEO, Triplett, Jo Anne, Enid: Sculpture Inside Outside, Oct. 13
Courier-Journal, Louisville, Heilenman, Dianne, Viewpoints: Women’s Work, Sept. 19
Santa Barbara News-Press, Santa Barbara, CA Woodard, Josef, Art, lives and video
Business First, Louisville, KY, Pritchett, Lucy, Mixed Media Artist, July 23
Louisville Magazine, Louisville, KY, Hambrick, Julie Ball, Bestowing Presence, April
LEO, Peterson, Tom, In the Presence of Art, March 31
Courier-Journal, Louisville, KYHeilenman, Diane, Speed to Open Presence, Mar.28
Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY Ritchie, Christa, Sculptor Spins Idea, March 21
Sentinel News, Shelbyville, KY Miller, Terri, Shelby Artist Makes Visible the Invisible
2003
WHAS, Channel 11, news report Solo Show, Swanson Reed Contemporary, July 30
Louisville Magazine, Louisville, KY Hambrick, Julie Ball; Kelley, Peter, 25 For Louisville’s
Future, Jan.
2002
LEO, Louisville Eccentric Observer, Triplett, Jo Anne, Meet the Artists, Oct. 9
Louisville Magazine, Louisville, KY Maze, Victor, Sine of the Times, August
Courier-Journal, Louisville, Heilenman, Diane, Pair of Louisville Shows Explore Technology’s
Role in ArtJuly
Louisville Magazine, Louisville, KY Allar, Bruce, editor, Critic’s Choice, HonorableMention,
Best New Visual Artist, Aug.
American Theatre, Coppens, Julie York, Tomorrow & Tomorrow
NPR, Sorese, Kim, (Radio and web site),Interview about SIGNAL:NOISE and plugANDplay,
June
LEO, Louisville, KY Eccentric Observer, Millar, Leslie, Bringing in the Noise, June
Apple.com, Gibson, Barbara, Sculpting with Video, Hot News, April
Courier-Journal, Louisville,KY Egerton, Judith, Macbeth, February 8
2001
Business First of Louisville, KY, Ferguson, Sara, Emerging Visual Artists Find Welcome
Dialogue, Hambrick, Julie Ball, About Skin: A Video and Still Photographic Exhibition, Sept.
2000
Leonardo, MIT’s Electronic Journal, in::formation, sine::apsis experiments Information Arts:
Intersections of Art, Science and Technology, Wilson, Steve,MIT Press
(Theater Bibliography available upon request-over 50 entries)
Selected Collections:
International Collection of Contemporary Art, Louisville, KY
Louisville International Airport
Center for Women & Families
Laura Lee Brown & Steve Wilson
Dr. Gregory Bays Brown, Revive Headquarters
Sallie Campbell
Larry Shapin & LaDonna Nicolas
Ambassador Mathew Barzun & Brooke Barzun
Augusta Brown Holland & Gill Holland
Brook Smith
Dr. Bill Schrieber and Sandy Schrieber
Selected Honors, Awards and Grant
2010
Creative Capital Professional Development Program grant (in association with Art Without Walls), 21c Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, 2010
Finalist for Louisville Arena Art Proposal
2007
Kentucky Foundation for Women, $2500
2005
Kentucky Foundation for Women,
Travel grant The Speed Art Museum$1,000
2004
Kentucky Arts Council, Al Smith Fellowship $7500
Kentucky Foundation for Women, Artist Enrichment Grant $1000
Prague Quadrennial 2003-04, Macbeth, Honorable Mention, Video Designer
2002
Kentucky Arts Council, Individual Project Grant $3000
2001
Kentucky Foundation for Women, Individual Artist Enrichment Grant $3500
Kentucky Arts Council, Professional Development Grant $500
1999
Illinois Art Council Fellowship Finalist Award and Grant $500
1998
Sony Corporation, Equipment Grant $4000
1996
Presidential Scholarship and show Nippon Corporate Offices, Chicago, ARC Scholarship and
student show, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
Professional Organizations:
sine::apsis experiments, a Chicago based group of kinetic, electronic, and digital based artists
Enid, a Louisville based group of women sculptors
Professional Activities
1998-Present Visual Artist and Video Designer, Valerie Sullivan Fuchs Art & Design
2010 Portfolio Workshop, November 6, Living Arts & Science Center, Lex. KY
2002-2003 Video Designer, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Tragedy of Macbeth,
Limonade Tous Les Jours, & The Second Death of Priscilla
1998-1999 Teacher, Chicago City Colleges, Truman College, Digital Art and Digital Video
1997-1998 Teaching Assistant, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Digital Art
1991-1993 Architectural Designer, Bravura Corp., Louisville, KY
1990-1991 Architectural Designer, Murray State University, Murray, KY
Selected Lectures and Presentations
2010 Purdue College of Technology, New Albany IN, Lecture
Transylvania University, Lexington, KY, Artist Talk
New Albany Bicentennial Public Art Project, Artist Talk
Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN, Artist Talk
2009 Speed Art Museum, Artist Dialogues
Green Building Gallery, Talk with Alice Gray Stites
2008 Bellarmine University, Louisville, KY Lecture and Presentation
Kentucky Community and Technical Colleges at Big Sandy, KY
2006 USITT - United States Institute for Theatre Technology Conference,
Louisville, KY , Presentation on Video Design for Theatre
2005 Speed Art Museum, Talk with Julien Robson
Published Writing and Critical Reviews
Upcoming:
Beauty Revisited, an anthology edited by Brand,Peg, "The Most Beautiful Woman in Gucha",
by Valerie Sullivan Fuchs, IUS Press
2008
LEO, a review of Marcel | Marcel, a Marcel Duchamp exhibition at the Speed Art Museum,
Louisville, KY by Valerie Sullivan Fuchs, Feb. 6
2007
LEO, a review of Breda Beban, "A video that asks, 'Who's teasing whom?',
byValerie Sullivan Fuchs, Dec. 14
2006
Co-Edited interview “Interview with Chris Radtke by Valerie Sullivan Fuchs”, Pitch Magazine,
Fall Issue
Education
1998 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, M.F.A., Studio, Time Arts Area, Chicago, IL
1996 Cornell University, Continuing Education Art Study, Ithaca, NY
1990 University of Kentucky, B. Architecture, Lexington, KY
Teaching
2015 Present Mentor, Graduate Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
2011-13 Lecturer, Digital Art, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
2011 Instructor, B & W Photography, Hanover College, Hanover, IN
