2023
San Francisco Art History 101, Catherine Bigelow, Nob Hill Gazette, May 1, 2023
El Museo Del Barrio Presents Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección, The City Life Org, May 1, 2023
Review: “50 Years of Beats and Sneaks” at MANA, Tris McCall, Jersey City Times, April 28, 2023
Art League Houston Announces 2023 Artist, Patron, and Lifetime Achievement Awards, Jessica Fuentes, Glasstire, April 10, 2023
Arion Press Launch New Book Arts Residency, Fine Books & Collections, March 28, 2023
An Interview with Texas Collector Joe Diaz, Ashley Allen, Glasstire, March 4, 2023
UTSA presents ‘Refined Reflections into the Formidable’ exhibit on January 27, The University of Texas at San Antonio, January 25, 2023
2022
The Year in Latinx Art, From Overdue Retrospectives to Promising New Museums, Maximilíano Durón, ARTNews, December 30, 2022
The Top 50 Exhibitions of 2022, Hyperallergic, December 28, 2022
On Boxing, Joyce Carol Oates and Vincent Valdez, Arion Press Artist Talk, October 21, 2022
Land of the Free, Featuring Hugo Crosthwaite, Vincent Valdez, Irene Mei Zhi Shum, and Jessica Holmes, The Brooklyn Rail, August 25, 2022
‘Land of the Free’ comes to Mana Contemporary, Hudson Press, July 11, 2022
Three Exhibitions at Mana Contemporary Complicate the “American Dream,” Isis Davis-Marks, Artsy, June 28, 2022
Deborah and Martin Hale Visiting Artist Lecture: Vincent Valdez: In Conversation, MFABoston, May 7, 2022
Four Texas Artists Among National Portrait Gallery’s 2022 Outwin Competition Finalists, Jessica Fuentes, Glasstire, May 6, 2022
Portrait of a Covid-Era Haircut Claims First Prize in the Outwin Boochever Competition, Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, April 29, 2022
Moving From Elegy to Ecstasy, a Poet Pushes Against the Canon, Sandra Simonds, New York Times, April 15, 2022
Art Industry News: Movers & Shakers, artnet, May 16, 2022
Ford, Mellon Foundations Name 2022 Winners of $50,000 Latinx Artist Fellowships, Maximilíano Durón, ARTNews, May 12, 2022
‘Communities are affected when someone is imprisoned’: Arizona exhibition explores the social impact of mass incarceration, Gabriella Angeleti, The Art Newspaper, February 4, 2022
2021
Officials announce renaming of plaza, creation of memorial in honor of José Campos Torres, Joel Umanzor, Houston Chronicle, December 17, 2021
San Antonio's West Side becomes cultural arts district, Jose Arredondo, Spectrum News 1, October 13, 2021
Art Basel Gallery List Announcement, Art Basel Miami Beach, October 7, 2021
Latinx Art Today, CBS Sunday Morning, August 29, 2021
At El Museo del Barrio Triennial, Five Latinx Painters to Watch, Beatriz Colón, Cultured, June 17, 2021
Americans Have Learned to Talk About Racial Inequality. But They’ve Done Little to Solve It, Janell Ross, Time, May 13, 2021
2020
Vincent Valdez: The Beginning is Near, American Masters on PBS, October 5, 2020
Controversial Philip Guston Show Postponement Met With Shock and Anger From Art Community, Alex Greenberger, Art News, September 28, 2020
The Gray Market: Why the Delay of Philip Guston Now Will Backfire on the Entire Culture Sector (and Other Insights), Tim Schneider, ArtNet, September 28, 2020
Vinyl Me, Please August 2020 Edition: Buena Vista Social Club – Buena Vista Social Club, Patrick Phillips, Geek Insider, September 7, 2020
Vincent Valdez: Dream Baby Dream, Raphael Rubinstein, Fabrik, September, 2020
Vincent Valdez: Politische Malerei, Larissa Kikol, Kunstforum International, June 2020
Suspended subjects: seductions of race in Vincent Valdez's The City and The strangest fruit, Byron Kim in Saturation: Race, Art, and the Circulation of Value, edited by C. Riley Snorton and Hentyle Yapp, MIT Press & The New Museum, May 26, 2020
4 Breakout Artists From Los Angeles Art Fairs Who Collectors Would Be Wise to Watch in the Months Ahead, Artnet, February 14, 2020
Artadia Names 2019 Award Winners, ArtForum, January 8, 2020
2019
Video: Glasstire Off Road With Vincent Valdez & John Keene, Glasstire, December 30, 2019
Vincent Valdez, Annabel Osberg, Artillery, November 5, 2019
New Monuments for New Cities, High Line Art, September 19, 2019
Emerging L.A. Galleries You Should Know, Alexxa Gotthardt, Artsy, August 2, 2019
New Faces and a Chicano Art Exhibit at Anaheim’s Muzeo, Richard Chang, Voice of OC, May 15, 2019
A Wake-Up Call at MASS MoCA: Suffering from Realness, Sarah Farrell Okamura, The Greylock Glass, May 6, 2019
'Suffering from Realness' makes you question what is 'real', Benjamin Cassidy, The Berkshire Eagle, April 5, 2019
Suffering from Realness, MASS MoCA, March 31, 2019
Spurs team up with renowned SA artist to design limited-edition "Manu" print, Megan Ball, KENS5, March 26, 2019
2018
Art cities: How Houston became a hotbed of contemporary art, Alastair Smart, Christie’s, December 1, 2018
Why I became an honorary member of the Ku Klux Klan, and what I did with the membership card, David Lieber, Dallas Morning News, September 14, 2018
“Vincent Valdez: The City” at the Blanton, Melany Jean, Austin Chronicle, September 14, 2018
Vincent Valdez, the People’s Champion, Michael Agresta, Texas Monthly, September 2018
Revisiting Vincent Valdez’s The City: Critical Moments of Silence and Reflection in Times of Distortion and Chaos, Andrea Lepage, Paint This Desert, August 2, 2018
Texas Museum Deliberates How to Display a Mural About Hate Crimes Against Latinos
Jasmine Weber, Hyperallergic, Jul 27, 2018
Ten Texas Artworks About America, Brandon Zech, Glasstire, July 4, 2018
What's Offensive Art? The Answer Isn't Black and White, Julie Wittes Schlack, WBUR Boston, July 26, 2018
Artist Vincent Valdez Made a Painting So Provocative This Texas Museum Waited a Year to Unveil It. Now It’s a National Sensation., Sarah Cascone, Artnet, July 23, 2018
How a painting of the Ku Klux Klan is causing a stir in Texas, Jake Nevins, The Guardian, July 18, 2018
Texas Museum Mounts 30-foot Portrait of Today’s KKK. Can It Avoid Controversy?, Alina Cohen, Artsy, July 18, 2018
Large-scale painting of Klan members unveiled at UT, Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, July 18, 2018
New Piece By Texas Artist Vincent Valdez Depicts A Modern Ku Klux Klan, Avery Miles, KUT Austin, July 17, 2018
30-Foot Painting of the K.K.K. Puts a Museum to the Test, Michael Hardy, New York Times, July 16, 2018
2017
Full House: Artists from Latin America Imagine Home, Douglas Messerli, Hyperallergic, July 29, 2017
Cheech Marin, Searching for a ‘Chicano Rockwell’, Michael Walker, New York Times, July 26, 2017
UT-Austin acquires San Antonio-native Vincent Valdez' massive Klu Klux Klan painting, San Antonio Express-News, Elda Silva, July 10, 2017
Blanton Museum Acquires Vincent Valdez’s Large-Scale ‘The City’ Paintings, Glasstire, July 6, 2017
A haunting call to action, and to history: Vincent Valdez’s “The City”, Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, SightLines Magazine, June 30, 2018
Argentine slums and a Unabomber cabin: How 'Home' at LACMA rethinks ideas about Latin American art, Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, June 15, 2017
Vincent Valdez on “Excerpts for John” in Home—So Different, So Appealing, Vincent Valdez, LACMA Unframed, May 29, 2017
The Year of The Heavy Moon. Seeking joy in a time of despair, Michelle García, Oxford American, April 25, 2017
When War Hits Home, Taína Caragol, National Portrait Gallery Blog, April 11, 2017
Improving Medicine With Art, New York Times, Michael Hoinski, March 11, 2017
2016
Under the Hood, Daniel Renfrow, Houston CityBook, September 21, 2016
New Painting by Vincent Valdez Shows Haunting Scene at David Shelton Gallery, Susie Tommaney, Houston Press, September 14, 2016
A Powerhouse Texas Artist Examines America Through the Ku Klux Klan — and the Results Are Beyond Haunting, Catherine D. Anspon, Papercity, September 9, 2016
Artist Vincent Valdez Paints The Ku Klux Klan In 'The City', David Martin Davies, Texas Public Radio, September 8, 2016
The Big Picture: Painting White Supremacy, Michael Agresta, Texas Observer, September 6, 2016
An All-American Family Portrait, in White, Lawrence Downes, The New York Times, March 5, 2016
2015
The Dark Places of the Earth, Nick Esquer, Houstonia, September 4, 2015
Vincent Valdez's Virtuosity, David S. Rubin, Glasstire, June 21, 2015
2014
Texas Oil: Painting and Money at Texas Contemporary Art Fair, Seth Orion Schwaiger, New American Paintings, September 25, 2014
Crystal Bridges Exhibition Reveals Curatorial Missteps, Blair Schulman, Huffington Post, September 16, 2014
The Strangest Fruit: Vincent Valdez at David Shelton Gallery, Betsy Huete, Glasstire, July 11, 2014
Parallel Myths, Donna Tennant, visual art source, June 28, 2014
Vincent Valdez's The Strangest Fruit: A Bitter Crop in Texas, Ed Fuentes, KCET, February 28, 2014
2013
Vincent Valdez: Excerpts for John, Walley Films, short documentary film, 2013
Some Closing Thoughts on Vincent Valdez: The Strangest Fruit at the Bell Gallery, Anya Ventura, Re: Bell, December 5, 2013
2012
A salute to 'America's Finest', Elda Silva, My San Antonio, October 15, 2012
Vincent Valdez, and Boxing as a Metaphor, Bart Barry, 15 Rounds, September 13, 2012
2011
Fair Thee Well, Laura Lark, Glasstire, October 25, 2011
Texas Contemporary Art Fair: Live Blog, Glasstire, October 22, 2011
2009
Vincent Valdez: El Chávez Ravine - Research & Painting, Rigoberto Luna, short documentary film, August 26, 2009
2007
Inches Above the Road and in The Man’s Face, Phil Patton, New York Times, November 18, 2007
Cooder’s ‘Buddy’ Revives Tale of a Bygone America, NPR Morning Edition, March 6, 2007