Valerie Sullivan Fuchs
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digital video
installations
digital images
 
 

Resume | Awards

 
Education  
   
1998 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, M.F.A., Time Arts Area, Chicago IL
1995-96 Cornell University, Fine Art Study, Ithaca, NY
1990 University of Kentucky B. Arch., Lexington, KY
   

Selected Group  & Solo Exhibitions

   
2007 Georgtown College, Live.Learn.Believe., August
Finding Family, 21c, Louisville, KY March 2-May 12
Finding Family, Georgetown College, Georgetown, KY May  24-July 5
The Late Seating, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Jan. 26
Enid, Jewish Community Center, Louisville, KY

2006 Parnu (Estonia) Film and Video Festival, Nongratta, Parnu, Estonia Nov. 18
Current, Swanson-Reed Contemporary, Louisville, KY, Oct.-Nov
International Installation of Video Art, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO
Uncommon Wealth, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY July 22-August 27
Nowhere, New Center for Contemporary Art Louisville, KY March 24-April 22
Swank, Santa Barbara Center for Contemporary Arts Forum Santa Barbara, CA, Feb.
2005 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
Presence, Speed Art Museum, Louisville Kentucky, March 1- April
Inside/Outside, Huff Gallery, Spaulding University Louisville, KY  Sept.25-Oct. 31
2004 Santa Barbara Center for Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
2003 Solo, Swanson Reed Contemporary, Louisville, KY August 1-August 30
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
Uninhabited,(Solo) Artswatch, Louisville, KY, April 18-28
2000 in::formation, Betty Rhymer, The School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL,
Electronic Immersions, Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL
1999 neurectopia, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL, Nov. 13-Jan. 5
1998 exocytosis, Environmental Earth Gallery, Chicago, IL Sep 11-Oct 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, Nov 28-Jan 4
1997 Electronic Immersions: Four Generations of Illinois Artists, Illinois Art Gallery,Chicago
   

Selected Bibliography

   
2007 WDRB, Fox Morning Show, 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 Barnes, Amy, 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, KY Heilenman, Diane, Speed to Open Presence, March 28
Courier-Journal, Louisville, KYRitchie, 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. 21
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 Explorer
Technology’s Role in Art  July
Louisville Magazine, Louisville, KYAllar, Bruce, editor, Critic’s Choice, Honorable
Mention, Best New Visual Artist, Aug.
American Theatre, Coppens, Julie York, Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow,
NPR, Sorese, Kim, (Radio and web site),Interview about SIGNAL: NOISE and plugANDplay, June 28
LEO, Louisville, KY Eccentric Observer, Millar, Leslie, Bringing in the Noise, June 26
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 Atmosphere, Dec.
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
   
  (Theatre Bibliography available upon request-over 50 entries)
   
Published Writing
 
2006 Co-Edited interview “Interview with Chris Radtke by Valerie Sullivan Fuchs”, Pitch Magazine, Fall Issue
   

Selected Honors, Awards and Grants

   
2005 Kentucky Foundation for Women, Travel grant $500
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, IL
ARC Scholarship and student show, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL

   

Teaching Experience

   
1998-1999       Chicago City Colleges, Truman, Digital Art and Digital Video
1997-1998       School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Digital Art and Design, Teach. Assistant
   

Selected Lectures and Presentations

   
2006 Presentation of Video Artwork Design for Theatre, USITT conference, Louisville, KY

2005 Presence, A Conversation With Julien Robson, Speed Art Museum,Louisville, KY
2004 Presentation of Work & Lecture on Current Digital Based Artists, IUS, IN
   

Theatre Video Design

   
2002-2003 Actors Theatre, Louisville, KY  The Tragedy of Macbeth, Directed by Marc Masterson Humana Festival: Charles Mee's Limonade Tous le Jour, The Second Death of Priscilla
 
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