Valerie Jaudon was born in Greenville, Mississippi and studied at Mississippi University for Women, Memphis Academy of Art, University of the Americas in Mexico City, and Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design in London.
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Valerie Jaudon is an original member of the Pattern and Decoration movement.
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Valerie Jaudon's art has been written about consistently in books, journals, magazines, newspapers, and catalogs.
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In 2011 Jaudon was elected to the National Academy of Design.
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Since 1987 Valerie Jaudon has taught at Hunter College of the City University of New York, where she is Professor of Art.
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Valerie Jaudon has had numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally.
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Valerie Jaudon began her early career in New York with the group exhibition, "76 Jefferson Street," at the Museum of Modern Art in 1975, featuring artists who had lived and worked in the 1893 loft building near the East River and the Manhattan Bridge, an area on the Lower East Side which began to attract artists and musicians in the mid-1950s.
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Valerie Jaudon was one of the original painters of the Pattern and Decoration movements of the 1970s.
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In 2012 Valerie Jaudon was both included and involved with organizing a re-staging of the seminal group exhibition "Conceptual Abstraction", a survey of twenty contemporary abstract painters, at Hunter College Galleries curated by Joachim Pissarro and Pepe Karmel.
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The original exhibition, for which Valerie Jaudon was credited with coining the name "Conceptual Abstraction", took place in 1991 at the Sidney Janis Gallery.
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Valerie Jaudon is currently represented in New York by DC Moore Gallery, with solo exhibitions in 2014,2015, and 2020.
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Valerie Jaudon was associated with the firm's New York and Philadelphia offices from 1975 until 1980, and worked on a wide range of projects.
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In 1993 Jaudon completed Blue Pools Courtyard, a site-specific installation with inlaid tile pools, plantings, and brick and bluestone pavers for the Charles W Ireland Sculpture Garden at the Birmingham Museum of Art, and in 1994 received a merit award from the Alabama chapter of American Society of Landscape Architects.