Ghislaine and Lando Fremaux-Valdez are a collaborative partnership. Both are pastelists and portraitists. Together, their work concerns the sensuality of grief, the medicalized subject, the experience of surgical intervention, and desire (and the concomitance of all of these). They undertake the ideation and execution of each piece collaboratively, often drawing shoulder to shoulder, or frequently alternating. The drawings follow from long conversations about their own relationship, the visual cultures of medicine and religion, and the responsibilities of figurative art. They are married and live in Lubbock, Texas.
Individual CVs are available upon request.
GROUP & SOLO EXHIBITIONS + PUBLICATIONS
2026
Cutaneous Vision, solo show of collaborative work, Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI (FORTHCOMING)
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2025
In the Farthest Reaches, solo show of collaborative work, Rosewood Arts Center, Kettering, OH (FORTHCOMING)
a fervent and necessary arrangement, juried ​by André Ramos-Woodard, virtual exhibition via Midwest Nice Art
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2024
Lovefeast, solo show of collaborative work curated by Matthew K. Ward (Director, Pollock-Krasner House & Study Center, East Hampton, NY), Avram Gallery, Stony Brook Southampton, Southampton, NY
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Issue Forty-Nine, The Adroit Journal, international/juried publication, New York, NY
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2023
Corpus Secretum (body secret), solo show of collaborative work, Program Gallery, Arts Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX (JUNE 30 - AUGUST 19, 2023)
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AMoA BIENNIAL-600, regional, juried by Anna Walker (Executive Director, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX), Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX
14th Annual Figurative Art Exhibition, national, juried by Nicole M. Santiago (Professor of Art, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA), Lore Degenstein Gallery, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
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More is Never Enough, international, juried and curated by Triton Mobley, Field Projects, New York, NY
INDA 15: The 15th International Drawing Annual, Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, international/juried publication, Cincinnati, OH
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Boundless Whispers, international/juried, virtual exhibition with Eve Leibe Gallery (London, UK), curated in partnership with ArtsinSquare.com
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Acceptance, Issue 20, Feels Zine, international/juried publication, Toronto, ON
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2022
Unmasked: Contemporary Portraiture, national, juried by Jessica T. Smith (Curator, Center for American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art), Long Beach Island Foundation, Long Beach Island, NJ
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Collectivity + Collaboration, Vol. 5, Southwest Contemporary, regional (the southwestern United States)/juried publication, selected by Darren Jones (US editor-at-large for New Art Examiner and regular contributor to Artforum)
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#1 Artsin Square Exhibition, international/juried, virtual exhibition via ArtsinSquare.com
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Full Circle, invitational, group exhibition curated by Giulia Livi and D'Nae Harrison, Zoller Gallery, State College, PA
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2021
12th Annual Drawing Discourse, international, juried by Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, virtual and in-print exhibition, University of North Carolina Asheville, Asheville, NC
Models in Motion, international, juried by Jim Morphesis, virtual exhibition via San Fernando Valley Arts & Cultural Center, Encino, CA
Thick, ShockBoxx Gallery, national/juried, Hermosa Beach, CA
2020
Repose, virtual group exhibition curated by Leslie Moody Castro, via Artists4Artists
Paint: Medium as Power in a Time of Crisis, international, juried by Juana Williams (Curator, Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI; now Curator, Detroit Institute of Arts, MI), Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
Salina Biennial: Contemporary Art from the Mountain Plains Region, regional, juried by Ksenya Gurshtein (Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS), Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
AWARDS & HONORS
2022
Third Place, conferred by Dr. Jessica T. Smith, Unmasked: Contemporary Portraiture, LBIF, Long Beach Island, NJ
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2021
Best in Show, conferred by Jim Morphesis, Models in Motion, San Fernando Valley Arts & Cultural Center, Encino, CA
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2020
Second Place, conferred by Ksenya Gurshtein, Salina Biennial: Contemporary Art from the Mountain Plains Region, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
RESIDENCIES
2021
Anderson Center Residency Program, August 2020, Red Wing, MN
'16-'20
Charles Adams Studio Project, Work Studio B, Lubbock, TX
MEDIA
2024
Ghislaine and Lando Fremaux-Valdez: Truth and the Body in Contemporary Art, interview with Matthew K. Ward for Inner Rhythm podcast
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Ghislaine and Lando Fremaux-Valdez: Gallery Walkthrough produced by Pollock-Kraser House and Study Center
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Art Thrives on the South Plains: A Survey of Lubbock's Cultural Scene, Donna Tennant for Arts and Culture Texas
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2023
The Darker Side of Devotion: Ghislaine and Lando Fremaux-Valdez at Arts Fort Worth, exhibition review by Sophia Del Rio
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Humanities Now: A Conversation about Art and the Body with Ghi Fremaux and Lando Valdez
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2020
Behind the Scenes | Ksenya Gurshtein discusses Ghislaine Fremaux and Lando Valdez
SPEAKING, WORKSHOPS & SERVICE
2024
Visiting artists (workshop), Clatstop Community College, Astoria, OR
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2022
Visiting artists (lecture presentation, critique, and panel discussion), Department of Art, University of Texas El Paso, El Paso, TX
CASP Blue Party Fundraiser, Lubbock, TX
2019
CASP Blue Party Fundraiser, Lubbock, TX
2018
CASP Blue Party Fundraiser, Lubbock, TX
Blue Party 2018
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