Bio
Born in France, Hallier graduated from the ENSAD in Paris in the cinema, video, animation department. She came to New York with a Fulbright Scholarship and received a Master of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in the Computer Arts department. Her early multimedia work received prizes at ACM Siggraph (FL), SCAN Arts Symposium (PA), Ars Electronica in Finland and Anima Mundi in Brazil.
Hallier’s artwork has been shown internationally in the US, with solo shows at NARS Foundation, BRIC Arts Media, MediaNoche gallery, and CAS Arts Center in New York, in Europe at the ESAM in Caen, France and Nadiana Idriss gallery in Berlin, Germany. Group shows venues include Trestle gallery, A.I.R. gallery, BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn Arts Council in Brooklyn, SVA Flatiron gallery and Tribes galleries in Manhattan, The Housatonic Museum (CT), Les Grands Voisins in Paris, France and Liverpool Independent Biennial in the UK.
Hallier worked on a commission for the Drawing Center and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (NYC) with Drawing Circle, part of DRAW NOW! she collaborated on public arts projects with artists Andy Deck (Governors Island) and Karla Robinson (Queens, NY). Her work was selected for BRIC’s first Brooklyn Biennial. The pubic art project, ScreamNow: Inside/Out, was presented at Art Electronica’s Telluric Vibrations. Residencies include LMCC Swing Space, Pioneer Works, NARS Foundation, Trestle Art Space in Brooklyn, Harvestworks, West Harlem Art Fund, 4Heads on Governors Island and ESKF Foundation, Mana Contemporary in New Jersey.
Most recently, Valérie received the Contemporary Arts Foundation and the MAAF (NYSCA & WaveFarm) Grants.
Statement
Existential renderings of a human experience, both the physical and emotional, are the core of Valérie Hallier’s artistic practice. Each project explores the absurdity and poetry of the tension we hold between the humanistic and mechanistic sense of being, using a wide swath of mediums including advanced technologies. By visualizing human screams, serializing human data and ranking human methodology through spectral charts, Hallier redefines the art of portraiture and self-portraiture in the forms of immersive installations, interactive public art and two-dimensional renderings.
Representing nature, culture, and technology simultaneously within the artwork, Hallier speaks directly to the carnal and finite qualities of our humanity. She questions the patriarchal silos created between nature and culture and the hierarchy created between the living and the non-living. Hallier’s atomized visual vocabulary accumulates simple units like petals, recycled materials, beads or pixels, in order to materialize the complexity of our condition. Processes deployed are repetitive, compulsive and meditative, bridging the analog, digital and virtual worlds. Flowers, often genetically altered, have become a potent symbol in the work. In the ongoing series “Déflorée Self,” petals become vessels that translate the cerebral and emotional journey of letting go of traumatic experience, a recurrent theme in her work.
“I am improvising with collected pressed petals of many colors and shapes to create abstract collages that reflect my inner workings. Inspired by Surrealist automatism, I try to suppress conscious control over the visual result. This process expresses the longing for a communion with the world around me.” Valérie Hallier
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Born in Paris, France, 1967.
EDUCATION
1994 MFA Computer Arts, School of Visual Arts, NYC
1992 Fulbright scholarship, Paris/NYC
1990 MFA Cinema-Video-Animation, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD), Paris, France
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Déflorée: A History, Guild Gallery II, NYC - July 11- Sept. 4
2020 Défloré(e)s, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2014 The Exhaustion of Saudia Young, BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Immortals, Brooklyn Front Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Portraits Lents (Slow Portraits), ESAM, Caen, France
Screened Calls & Slow Portraits, MediaNoche, NYC
48 Tenants, Nadania Idriss Gallery, Berlin, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Up Close From Afar, group show curated by V. Hallier, The Westbeth gallery, NYC, Sept. 22- Oct.16
Art Take-Over @ Westbeth: There is a crack in Everything, curated by Valérie Hallier, Westbeth, NYC, June 20-July 14
Art Take-Over @ Westbeth: Ex-Femina, co-curated by Valérie Hallier & Noah Trapolino, Westbeth, NYC, June 20-July 14
The Future of Non- Objective Art, group show, Atlantic Gallery, NYC, Feb 13-March 2
Postcards from the edge, a benefit for Visual Aids, Berry Campbell Gallery, Jan. 19-21
2023 Westbeth Winter Show, Westbeth Gallery, NYC
A Parade Through The Years: Selection of resident artists at ESKFF, Mana Contemporary, NJ, Oct 15 - Nov 3
Undaunted, We Are Still Here: West Harlem Art Fund, Governors Island, NY, Sept-Oct
Unnatural Processes, curated by Valérie Hallier, Westbeth Gallery, NYC, Jun 30 -Jul 28
Radiance, curated by Catherine Welshman, BEEKMAN ARTS, Newburg, NY, Jun 17-Aug 18
I LIKE YOUR WORK, curated by Christina Massey, Spring Exhibition Catalog, April 1st
A.I.R BIENNIAL: Friend of the Artist, curated by Eriola Pira, A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Jan 7 - Feb 5
2022 Westbeth Winter Show, Westbeth Gallery, NYC
At Rest & In Motion, 4Heads Portal Outdoors Exhibition, Governors Island, NY
Arts that Marks Time, West Harlem Art Fund, Governors Island, NY
REPOPULATION, New Horizon, Last Frontier NYC, Brooklyn, NY
Portal House, 4Heads Portal Exhibition, Governors Island, NY
Life Turned Inside Out, West Harlem Art Fund, Governors Island, NY
Selects @ CREATE, curated by Kate Vance and Daniel Aycock (Front Room Gallery), CREATE Council on the Arts, Catskills, NY
WoArt: Full Circle, Online exhibition, curated by Christina Massey
2021 Open Source Gallery Auction, curated by Monika Wuhrer
ELEMENTS, West Harlem Art Funds, Governors Island, NY
The workings of Media [Art & Artists], Harvestworks, Governors Island, NY
2020 Ars Electronica: Telluric Vibrations, LA hub of the Festival “Kepler’s Gardens"
How We Evolve, New Art @ Minka Series, Brooklyn, NY
TAS Members, curated by Dexter Wimberly, Brooklyn, NY
Residency Show, Trestle gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 "I__AMERICA & AMERICA__ME", SVA Flatiron Gallery, NYC
Gowanus Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY
OnSite, Trestle gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Sixteen Memos for the Next Millennium, NARS Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Trestle Gallery Online exhibition curated by Sharon Louden
Wish You Were Here, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Satellite Armory Show, The Living Gallery Outpost, NYC
A.I.R. CURRENTS: Abortion, curated by Barbara Zucker, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Access Art, Brooklyn Arts Council, Part Deux, Brooklyn, NY
2016 OPEN (C)ALL: Up For Debate, BRIC Media House, Brooklyn, NY
2014 BRIC Media House Biennial: Volume 1, Downtown Edition, Brooklyn, NY
Pins & Needles, Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT
2010 C'est vrai ce mensonge?, Le Préau, Vire, France
"GLITC/H” symposium held in Chicago
Glitch Generation, Brooklyn Arts Council, NY
PUBLIC ART, COLLABORATIONS & COMMISSIONS
2022 PPPP, interactive public art, Governors Island, NY
2020 ScreamNow Inside Out, interactive public art, Governors Island, NY
2018 Anxiously Awaiting Your Return, community-based event, LIC, NY
2016 Take Me Away, in collaboration with Alix Delmas, Paris, France
2012 Drawing Circle, commission Drawing Center & LMCC, Governors Island, NY
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2023 ESKFF Residency, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ - April-June
2022 4heads Portal AIR: Governors Island, NY
2021 LMCC's 2021 Arts Center Residency Program, Governors Island, NY
West Harlem Art Fund: Muse Residency, Governors Island, NY
2020 Harvestworks New Works Residency, NYC
2019 Trestle gallery Artist Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2018 NARS Foundation International Artist Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Pioneer Works: guest resident of the NY Theremin Society, Brooklyn, NY
2010 LMCC Swing Space Residency at Building 110 Governors Island, NY
GRANTS & AWARDS
2022 Wave Farm & NYSCA Media Art Assistance Fund Recipient
2021 Foundation for Contemporary Art Grant
1999 ACM MM Arts Program, UK
SCAN Arts Symposium
1994 SIGGRAPH, USA
ANIMA MUNDI, BRAZIL
1992 Fulbright scholarship, Paris/NYC
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
2024 NY1 segment on Art Take-Over @ Westbeth with Ron Lee
Profiles in Art by Terry Stoller
Untapped City Interview NYC MAKERS by Nicole Saraniero
Doodling with Petals, an interview by Etty Yaniv for Art Spiel
2023 I Like Your Work, Spring Exhibition, April 2023
2022 HEADS Magazine, an open-call artist publication created by U.D.L.I Editions. 20th edition of NADA Miami & House of Miracle Inc.
2022 ArtCrawl art guide, Summer 2022 issue
2021 asahi.com: Déflorée Self series in “Elements” group show at West Harlem Art Fund and ScreamNow at Harvestworks.
2021 ArtNet.com: Elements group show review
2020 The Bulletin Review – February 1st – 1st Edition
2018 Exhibition Catalog: Abortions, curated by Barbara Zucker
2014 Exhibition catalog: BRIC Biennial
•L Magazine: A New First for BRIC: The BRIC Biennial, Volume 1. Paul D’Agostino
•Hyperallergic: Brooklyn Gets a Neighborhood-Centric Biennial. Jillian Steinhauer
•The NY Times: A New Art Biennial Among Offerings at BRIC House in Brooklyn. Allan Kozinn
•Huffington Post: Brooklyn Gets A Biennial
•Flavorpill: Community Culture Curator: Inside the BRIC Biennial. Emily Turner
•Brokelyn.com: See the best of Downtown Brooklyn’s art, all in one place at the BRIC Biennial. David Colon
•Ft Greene Focus: BRIC’s First Biennial Starts On Friday. Nora Whelan
2014 Exhibition catalog: Pins & Needles
•ART + PAIN + WOMEN = ?, Venü Contemporary Culture Magazine, Lisa Seidenberg, June/July/Aug. 2014
•Making a Point with ‘Pins & Needles’ art exhibit, Phyllis A.S. Boros CTPost.com
•CTNOW.com http://www.ctnow.com/arts-theater/museums/hc-art-housatonic-0123-20140121,0,486297.story
•examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/article/pins-and-needles-new-show-at-the-housatonicmuseum-of-art