Biography

Visual artist, Valerie Hird creates a meditative world in which reality and the imagination are inextricably connected. She works across media, including painting, sculpture, drawing, animation, installation, and performance. Highly crafted and deeply imaginative, her practice is activated through travel and collaboration. Her work considers the history of narrative, cultural mythologies, analog technologies, and craft forms to create charged symbol-based artworks uniquely her own.

Hird received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design 1977 and an MFA from Vermont College 2007. She is represented by the Nohra Haime Gallery, 500 West 21st New York, NY 10011, NH Galeria, Cartagena, Colombia and the Furchgott Sourdiff Gallery, Shelburne, VT. Retired Professor of Art, Saint Michaels College, and Professor of Visual Linguistics, CORE Division, Champlain College, in Vermont. (2000-2019) and currently lives in Burlington, Vermont.

Hird’s recent solo exhibitions include (2025) THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, See.Me Gallery NYC, (2024) NARRATIVES, Nohra Haime Gallery NYC, (2022-3) THE GARDEN OF ABSOLUTE TRUTHS, The Studios of Key West, Key West, FL., Burlington Center for the Arts, Burlington, VT., (2021) WHAT DID HAPPEN TO ALICE – MY AVATAR at the Nohra Haime Gallery, NYC, 2021. Group exhibitions include: (2025) PURSUING THE IMPOSSIBLE, Nohra Haime Gallery NYC, (2024) Kent Museum, VT, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham WA, DAM Short Film Festival, NV, (2023) University of Puget Sound, WA, MASSMoCA (Sol LeWitt) Portsmouth Museum, Tampa Art Museum, DIVA in Paris, American University of Dubai, Global Center for Drawing, Melbourne, Australia and at the American Center, University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan. Hird’s recent awards include (2025) Grand Prize, See.Me Community NY,(2023/4) The Puffin Foundation Grant Award, (2022) Aesthetica Art Prize, shortlisted, WHAT DID HAPPEN TO ALICE? Animated video, (2022) Finalist, Berlin Shorts Award, THE UNATTENDED MOMENT, animated video (2021) Best Shorts Humanitarian Award for WHAT DID HAPPEN TO ALICE? Animated video, (2021) Finalist Toronto Indie Film Festival of Cift for THE UNATTENDED MOMENT animated video, Outstanding Excellence award from WRPN Shorts Global Film Festival (2020) Awards in Animation and Women Filmmakers by IMDb Best Shorts, Montreal Independent Film Festival, LA’s jellyFEST and WRPN Women’s Film Festivals.