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Valery Jung Estabrook wearing a pair of her multi-layer concept glasses, “Color Prototype” 2023

ABOUT

Valery Jung Estabrook grew up on a small farm in rural southwestern Virginia, where she developed a deep appreciation for hands-on making and construction. Her artistic practice spans sculpture, video, installation, and social intervention. She holds a BA in Visual Art from Brown University and completed her MFA in Painting and Drawing at Brooklyn College.

Estabrook has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including solo shows at Auxiliary Projects (Brooklyn, NY), New Gallery (Clarksville, TN), New Image Gallery (Harrisonburg, VA), SPRING/BREAK Art Show (NYC, NY), and in group shows at Gallery Korea of the Korean Cultural Center (NYC, NY), EFA Project Space (NYC, NY), Knockdown Center (Queens, NY), Currents New Media Festival (Santa Fe, NM), BIDEODROMO Experimental Film and Video Festival (Bilbao, SP), and CHANNELS Biennial Video Art Festival (Melbourne, AU).

In 2018 Estabrook received the Gold AHL-T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Award, which recognizes artists of Korean heritage. She was the 2020 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow at University of Michigan's Institute for the Humanities.

Valery currently teaches classes in interdisciplinary art at the University of New Mexico where she also serves as the lab manager for UNM's ARTSLab, a transdisciplinary art facility for emerging media and digital fabrication.