Claudia Valenti (b. 1994) is a multidisciplinary artist whose paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, and book works use folkloric imagery and magical realism to explore memory, trauma, identity, and the psychological contents of a home.
Valenti received her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and her BFA from Montserrat College of Art. Selected exhibitions include Trestle Gallery (New York), Amos Eno Gallery (New York), the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia), the Crane Estate (Ipswich, MA), the Cultural Center of Rosa Venerini (Viterbo, IT), and others. Valenti has received grants for her work from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Fine Arts Venture Fund, a residency fellowship at the San Juan Preservation Trust in the San Juan Islands, WA, and most recently, a travel grant to conduct research on the visual use of animals in Japanese myth in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan.
Valenti lives and works in Salem, MA, and the Boston Area.