someone told Claudia to look philosophical in front of her work. At the opening reception for The Other Room, 2025.
Claudia Valenti (b. 1994) is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, drawing, printmaking, and ceramic sculpture. Her work uses magical realism and folkloric imagery to explore memory, loss, comfort, and identity within the framework of the home. Her most recent work sets free both real and mythic animals into a nocturnal home space, observing as they navigate liminal spaces and nostalgic objects; the hands of ghosts offer them comfort as the forest weaves around and from their bodies.
Valenti received a BFA in Painting and Drawing from Montserrat College of Art and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited across the East Coast and internationally. She has received grants for her work in art and research from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Fine Arts Venture Fund, the San Juan Preservation Trust for a residency in the San Juan Islands, WA, and most recently from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, which awarded her a residency in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, to study the semiotic use of animals in Japanese art and architecture.
Valenti lives, works, and teaches north of Boston.