Bio
Valentin Brown is an artist and arts worker practicing in the disability arts and artist-run sectors. Using mixed media drawing, tactile sculpture, and audio narrative, Valentin’s multidisciplinary practice centers the ways in which disability arts and culture disrupt and animate the stories we tell about ourselves. As an a psychiatric survivor, a disabled transsexual, and a recipient of social assistance programs, Valentin employs strategies of accessible artistic practice to resist assimilative conceptions of the human body prescribed by systems of social control. Valentin is a 2017 graduate of Visual and Creative Arts at Sheridan College. Through exhibitions, in-person and virtual artist talks, workshops, and panel discussions, Valentin engages communities in the Dish with One Spoon territories currently known as Hamilton and Toronto, as well as on a national scale in the settler colonial state known as Canada.
