Valerie Piraino

Valerie Piraino n'umunyabugeni w'umunyarwanda ariko utuye muri Amerika umenyerewe cyane mu gushushanya no gutaka ibishushanyo. ^[1]

Ubuzima bwo hambere

Yavutse muri 1981 i Kigali, mu Rwanda ^[2] akurira haba mu gihugu cye ndetse no muri Amerika. Ubuhanzi bwe bugaragaza indangamuntu y’amahanga kandi bukubiyemo insanganyamatsiko nko gusobanura ibintu byinshi biranga muri rusange, kurwanya ubukoloni (cyangwa kurwanya imperialism), diaspora ny'afurika. ^[1] ^[3] ^[4] Yahawe ibihembo birenga icumi bimwemerera imikoranire, kandi yagiye agaragara mu imurikagurisha rirenga mirongo itatu muri leta umunani za Amerika ndetse no mubindi bihugu bitatu.^[5] ^[1]

Nyina wa Valerie, yari umuhanga mu kudoda mu Rwanda, yahuye na se w'umunyamerika, igihe yakoraga mu bikorwa byo gutabara no kwiteza imbere. Nyuma yo kuva mu bwana bwe akiri muto yagiye muri Repubulika Iharanira Demokarasi ya Kongo, no mu bindi bihugu bitatu byo muri Afurika^[6], Valerie, kimwe n'ababyeyi be, bimukiye muri Arizona. Nyuma, umuryango we wimukiye i Baltimore, MD, aho yize muri kaminuza ya Maryland Institute of Art . Igihe Valerie yigaga i Baltimore, yasubiye mu Rwanda, aho benshi mu ruhande rwa nyina bari biciwe muri Jenoside yakorewe abatutsi mu Rwanda^[7]. Uru rugendo rwashishikarije umurimo we nk'umuhanzi uhuza ibihugu, harimo n'umushinga we. Mu 2005, Valerie yimukiye mu mujyi wa New York, ari naho yatangiriye MFA mu ishuri ry’ubuhanzi rya kaminuza ya Columbia . Yarangije muri MFA ye mu 2009 yahise yihutira guhanga umurimo we, kuri ubu akora nk'umwarimu w'igihe gito mu ishuri rya Parsons of Design^[8].

Ibikorwa bigaragara n'imurikagurisha

Ikigaragara ni uko umurimo we uzwi cyane, ni urukurikirane rw'ibishusho bigizwe namapapayi yakoze ashushanyije ibice bya polystirene, hanyuma bigahisha imiterere y'ibumba ryirabura rya epoxy, irangi, resin, ibiti, ndetse rimwe na rimwe akoresha irangi rya zahabu kugirango anogereze igishushanyo. Mu kuganira ku kamaro k’amabara, umukara na zahabu, Valerie avuga ko umukara na zahabu byibutsa ubucukuzi bw’amabuye y’agaciro ndetse n’ibidukikije byabereye muri Afurika kubera ubukoloni. Amabara n'imiterere nabyo byerekana uruhu rw'abaturage bava muri Afurika bakoreshejwe mu mutungo kamere wabo. ^[4] ^[9]

Amapapayi ni imbuto zatoranijwe kugirango zihagararire imyumvire yo kurwanya ubukoloni kubwimpamvu ebyiri zingenzi. Iya mbere, Amapapayi yari ifunguro rya mugitondo mugihe yari umukobwa muto akiri muri Afurika. Icya kabiri, amapapayi, akomoka muri Karayibe, bagereranya nk'ubukoloni kuko "bakurikiza inzira y'ubutegetsi bwa gikoloni ". ^[3] Mu imurikagurisha ryarangiye muri Mutarama, 2017 ryiswe Dis Place mu Nzu Ndangamurage y’ubuhanzi bwa Diasporan , amapapayi yasaga nkaho yakomeretse, byerekana ihohoterwa rikorerwa abagore bo muri Afurika. ^[10] Mu gihe amapapayi ari bimwe mu bikorwa bya Valerie bizwi cyane, yakoze ibindi bishushanyo byinshi kandi yagiye mu imurikagurisha mu gihugu hose, ndetse anagaragara mu imurikagurisha mu bindi bihugu ku isi^[11].

Urutonde rwuzuye rw'imurikagurisha rya Valerie Piraino
Year	Exhibition Title	Institution/Gallery	Location
2010	Collective Show	Participant Inc.	New York City, NY
2010	Usable Pasts	Studio Museum in Harlem	New York City, NY
2011	Fidelity	Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art	Baltimore, MD
2011	The Third Party	Night Gallery	Los Angeles, CA
2012	The Bearden Project	Studio Museum in Harlem	New York City, NY
	Get it on the Record	Visceglia Gallery, Caldwell College	Caldwell, NJ
	Fore	Studio Museum in Harlem	New York City, NY
2013	Present Future	Artissima	Turin, Italy
	Reconstruction	Crosstown Arts	Memphis, TN
	Photoplay	Cindy Rucker Gallery	New York City, NY
	Body Language	Studio Museum in Harlem	New York City, NY
	Round 39: Looking Back, Moving Forward	Project Row Houses	Houston, TX
2014	Lucky Draw	Sculpture Center	New York City, NY
	"The House Seems All Upset" Contemporary Art Interventions on Critical Whiteness	Jade Addams Hull House Museum	Chicago, IL
	Retreat	Valerie Carberry Gallery	Chicago, IL
	The Bearden Project	Texas State University	San Marcos, TX
2015	After Afropolitan	Weeksville Heritage Center	Brooklyn, NY
	Africa's Out	Gladstone Gallery	New York City, NY
	Mirror Mirror	Kate Werble Gallery	New York City, NY
	Displace	MOCADA	Brooklyn, NY
2016	SHE: Deconstructing Female Identity	ArtsWestchester	White Plains, NY
	Collector's Club	Project Row Houses	Houston, TX
	CAMSTL Gala	Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis	St, Louis, MO
	Palatable	Studio Museum in Harlem	New York City, NY
	Event Horizon	Lesley Heller Workspace	New York City, NY
	Lucky Draw	Sculpture Center	New York City, NY
	Everyday Redefined	Corridor Gallery	Brooklyn, NY
	Whatever moves between us also moves the world in general	Murray Guy Gallery	New York City, NY
	Africans in America	Goodman Gallery	Johannesburg, South Africa
2017	Elective Affinities: A Library	Hunter College Art Galleries	New York City, NY
	Downtown 83 Aljira Benefit and Auction	Aljira Center for Contemporary Art	Newark, NJ
	A Fast, Moving Sky	The Third Line Gallery	Dubai, United Arab Emirates
	The Socrates Annual	Socrates Sculpture Park	New York City, NY

Ibihembo yatsindiye

Valerie yakiriye ubusabane nibihembo mu myaka ye yose yo guhanga ibihangano.

Urutonde rwuzuye rw'ibihembo bya Valerie Piraino / Ubusabane
Umwaka	Izina ryigihembo / Ubusabane
2004	Jacques and Natasha Gelman Travel Award
2009	Studio Museum in Harlem, Artist-in-residence
2011	Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant Nominee
2012	Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant Nominee
2013	Project Row Houses, Visiting Artist
2014	Joan Mitchell Foundation, Emerging Teaching Artist Fellow
2015	Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Process Space
2017	Socrates Sculpture Park, Emerging Artist Fellowship
	Offshore Residency
	Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award Nominee
2018	Joan Mitchell Center, Artist-in-residence
2018	The Wassaic Project, Editions Program

Amashakiro

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 "Archive copy". Archived from the original on 2019-06-07. Retrieved 2022-05-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
↑ "Archive copy". Archived from the original on 2017-05-18. Retrieved 2022-05-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 https://hudsonvalleyone.com/2017/05/28/two-kingston-artists-featured-in-dubai-exhibit/
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 https://artswestchester.org/she-deconstructing-female-identity/she_exhibition_brochure/
↑ https://artfacts.net/artist/valerie-piraino/247415
↑ https://art.state.gov/valerie-piraino/
↑ https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2004-05-18-0405180135-story.html
↑ https://www.joanmitchellfoundation.org/valerie-piraino
↑ https://gulfnews.com/culture/arts/in-a-constant-state-of-flux-1.2053611
↑ https://hyperallergic.com/260681/artists-of-the-african-diaspora-cast-off-the-legacy-of-displacement/
↑ https://socratessculpturepark.org/artist/valerie-piraino/

[:0-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 "Archive copy". Archived from the original on 2019-06-07. Retrieved 2022-05-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[2] "Archive copy". Archived from the original on 2017-05-18. Retrieved 2022-05-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[:1-3] 3.0 ^3.1 https://hudsonvalleyone.com/2017/05/28/two-kingston-artists-featured-in-dubai-exhibit/

[:2-4] 4.0 ^4.1 https://artswestchester.org/she-deconstructing-female-identity/she_exhibition_brochure/

[5] ttps://artfacts.net/artist/valerie-piraino/247415

[6] ttps://art.state.gov/valerie-piraino/

[7] ttps://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2004-05-18-0405180135-story.html

[8] ttps://www.joanmitchellfoundation.org/valerie-piraino

[9] ttps://gulfnews.com/culture/arts/in-a-constant-state-of-flux-1.2053611

[10] ttps://hyperallergic.com/260681/artists-of-the-african-diaspora-cast-off-the-legacy-of-displacement/

[11] ttps://socratessculpturepark.org/artist/valerie-piraino/

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