SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Going Dutch, Johns Gallery, DeKalb, IL
2020 Plastic Lives, Johns Gallery, DeKalb, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Hide & Seek. TTU Satellite Gallery at CASP, Lubbock, TX
2022 Escaping Siloes: Research Between Realms, School of Music, TTU, Lubbock, TX
2022 Messaging Lubbock: A Journey of Belonging, School of Art, TTU, Lubbock, TX
2021 Is Texas Painting? 5&J Gallery, Lubbock, TX
2020 Print Show, Johns Gallery, DeKalb, IL
2020 Entanglements, Oak Park Art League, Oak Park, IL
2020 Ars Nova, Jack Olsen Gallery, DeKalb, IL
2020 15th Annual Emerging Artist Exhibition, Morpho Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019 Overcompensation: Big Print Show, Gallery 215, DeKalb, IL
2019 Ars Nova, Jack Olsen Gallery, DeKalb, IL
2019 Challenging the Stigma, Founders Library, NIU, DeKalb, IL
SELECT AWARDS
2023-24 Hanna Memorial – Medici Circle Endowed Scholarship for the Fine Arts, TTU
2022-23 Alan & Lee Ann White Regents Endowed Scholarship, TTU
2020-21 Olson Memorial Painting Scholarship, NIU
2019-20 Helen Merritt Art Scholarship, NIU
2019-20 JR Lee Studio Art Scholarship, NIU
2017 National Distinguished Dissertation Award Nominee, ProQuest
2016-17 Graduate Research and Creative Scholar Award, WMU
2015 Gwen Frostic Playwriting Award, WMU
2013-15 Doctoral Scholar Associateship, College of Graduate Studies, WMU
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
2023 Chapter, “Closing the Gap: Lessons for the Study and Practice of Comics”
Exploring Comics and Graphic Novels in the Classroom, IGI Global, pp 249-261.
2022 Art, “Goodwill Towards Friends,” Trends: The Journal of the Texas Art
Education Association, Dallas, Texas, (n.p).
2020 Chapter, “Wonder Women and the Web: How Female Comics Creators Leap
from Private to Public in a Single Bound,” With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy:
Teaching Comics in the Classroom, University Press of Mississippi, pp.38-52.
2016 Art, “Madonna dei Mambo,” Hot Metal Bridge, University of Pittsburgh, Winter, (n.p.).
2015 Art, “Bon Camino,” No Tokens Journal, vol. 4, pp. 56-60.
2014 Art, “Blue State of Mind,” The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, University of Iowa. vol.
16, pp. 38-63.
SELECT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2023 “Tennessee Williams: Science Fiction and Fantasy,” Roundtable discussant, Tennessee
Williams Institute, Provincetown, MA
2022 “In Between the Lines: Building a Case for Interdisciplinary Comics Studies,” Panel
presentation, Popular Culture Association, Seattle, WA
2016 “Apocalypse in the Archives: Resurrecting William Blake’s Prophetic Vision for
America,” Panel presentation, Pacific Ancient and MLA Conference, Pasadena, CA
2015 “One Click Wonder: How Women Comics Creators Leap from Private to Public in a
Single Bound,” Panel presentation, MLA Conference, Vancouver, BC
2014 “Long Story Short: From Oral History to Graphic Narrative,” Panel presentation, Craft
Critique Culture Conference, Iowa City, IA
2013 “Truth in the Gutter: Blurred Boundaries between History and Imagination in Graphic
Narratives,” Roundtable discussant, Northeast MLA Conference, Boston, MA
2013 “Faceless Babies, Snorkeling Chickens, and Jelly-Winged Swans: Comics as Monstrous
or Immutable Medium.” Panel presentation, Northeast MLA Conference, Boston, MA
BIO
Aimee Valentine is a multidisciplinary artist with a background that includes a BA in Art History, MFAs in Studio Arts and Creative Writing, a Ph.D. in English Literature, and ongoing doctoral research in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts. Aimee’s artistic practice bridges the gap between traditional and contemporary modalities and includes work in comics, ceramics, painting, photography, time-based media, and, most recently, narrative image-making using language-based algorithmic models, particularly in the field of text-to-image AI. Her approach to artmaking is characterized by a commitment to fostering cross-pollination between academic disciplines and studio practices.
Her 2017 dissertation, "Good Looking in the Dark," was nominated for the National Dissertation Award and combined playwriting, short story prose, and comics to form a single narrative set on a dark stage in the reader’s imagination. Other academic contributions include book chapters that delve into the significance of comics in higher education and the transformative power of the Internet for women in the comics industry.
Currently, Aimee's work investigates schema theory and CASA theory (Computers Are Social Actors) as they relate to visual art produced in collaboration with Artificial Intelligence. Her ongoing series employs Ken dolls as symbolic representations of the coded, siloed artist, commenting on the intersection of humanity and technology.