artist Bio

Valerie Allard is a practicing painter and mixed-media artist. For fifteen years, she has been committed to exploring figurative work, interactive visual communication, and user generated networks.

Valerie shows at Pleiades Gallery, Chelsea,New York and often participates in group shows in London, Spain, and Canada. Allard holds a MFA from the New York Academy of Art, a degree in painting from Accademia di Firenze, where she also taught, and a BS in Philosophy from Cornell University.

Her collaborative work includes the video piece, “Conversations”, 2001, with Swiss filmmaker, Patricia Moraz, eyespoke.com, a user generated visual ‘discourse’, with McDougal Design Studio, and in 2005, she launched Vorate.com, a project designed as an ironic look at consumerism and intellectual property.

Valerie is a well-known portrait painter and is currently painting Philippe Jordan, Director of the Paris Opera, Gregory Bulchalter of the Met Opera, and Vivica Genaux. She is collected by Margo Gordon, Master Drawings in New York.

Valerie was born in the Canary Islands and grew up in Cairo, Buenos Aires, Surrey, England, and the U.S.

Currently, Valerie lives in New York City and is working on a multi-media experimental novel in which narrative, website architecture, and visual work used in graphic novels are essential structural forms for the narrative flow of the piece.