VALERIE GEORGE (she her) is an artist whose work over the past twenty years has reflected holistically on art and life through installation, site specific works, video, performance, sound, sculpture, photography, new media, drawing, collaboration, and curatorial practice. Her work explores themes of play, chance, entropy, transcendence, and the history of place. Through these investigations, George seeks to create spaces where art and life converge, offering meditations on the multifaceted experience of being human.
Collaboration is central to George’s practice. She frequently engages in joint projects that expand her artistic dialogue and foreground collective creation. Her curatorial work similarly prioritizes community building and exchange, with a focus on amplifying underrepresented voices and fostering sustained dialogue within contemporary art contexts.
George received her MFA from the University of California, Davis, where she worked closely with Lynn Hershman Leeson and Mary Lucier. She is a Professor of Art at the University of West Florida, a member of Good Children Gallery in New Orleans, and a Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of the 309 Punk Project in Pensacola, Florida.
Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including Good Children Gallery in New Orleans, Locust Projects in Miami, Public Address and Cinders Gallery in Brooklyn, Worksound Gallery in Portland, Coop Gallery in Nashville, the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle, Sonoma County Museum in Santa Rosa, Rosenwald Wolf Gallery in Philadelphia, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Robert Miller Gallery in New York, Adobe Backroom Gallery in San Francisco, La MaMa Gallery in New York, Sarai Media Lab in New Delhi, FemArt Mostra D’Art De Dones in Barcelona, and the Horse Hospital in London.
George has been invited to participate in the 2024 and 2026 Every Woman Biennial in New York, the RCA Street Festival in Richmond, Re Happening at Lake Eden at the former site of Black Mountain College in North Carolina, Art in the Open in Philadelphia, and South by Southwest at Okay Mountain Gallery in Austin. She has also been a Visiting Artist and Lecturer at Hangar Residency in Barcelona and Stanford University in Palo Alto.
Her work is included in the Norton Museum of Art collection and was acquired for the museum by Tim Wride, former Curator of Photography at LACMA. Her work has been reviewed by NPR, WHYY, Burnaway Magazine, Tom Tom Magazine, Tape Op Magazine, Amp Magazine, and Drain Magazine.
George is a Co-Founder of the 309 Punk Project, established in 2015, and has served as Co-Executive Director and Curator since 2020. She has been awarded Artist in Residence Fellowships at Everglades National Park AIRIE in 2016 and the Bilpin International Ground for Creative Initiatives in Australia in 2017. She joined Good Children Gallery as one of sixteen members in 2020 and has participated in artist residencies at the University of Mississippi in Oxford in 2022 and Stove Works in Chattanooga in 2023 and 2024.
Most recently, her work was included in the 2025 Alabama Triennial, and she will exhibit in the 2026 Every Woman Biennial in New York in March.