Valerio Ventura
Alhambra, CA - United States
Valerio Ventura - Fine Artist
Member Since: 08/21/2010
Ventura grew up in Rome, Italy before moving to the USA in the early eighties to work as a designer in the film and television industry. In the next ten years Ventura worked in many aspects of production and moved up the ranks establishing himself as an innovator of is own.
Ventura got his first group exhibit when his work was accepted at the San Bernardino County Museum in the show Ensamble in 1985. From 1991 to 2005 Ventura worked in the animation industry with many icons like; Iwao Takamoto (VP Hanna-Barbera,) Dean Valentine (Disney TV,) Tim Burton and Steven Spielberg (Family Dog, CBS) to name a few. In the mid-nineties Ventura art directed the award winning TV series, 'Happily Ever After: fairy tales for every child' (HBO,) and production designed the feature film 'The Pagemaster', (Turner Pictures, dir: Maurice Hunt / Joe Johnston.) -and many Disney features such as 'Rescuers Down Under', 'Hercules', 'Mulan' and 'The Emperor's New Groove' (Walt Disney Co.)
In 2008 Ventura completed two seasons as supervising art director for Cartoon Network Studios on the Emmy award winning TV series 'Class of 3000', and directed the animated music video 'Turn of the Century' (CNS) featuring the voice and musical talent of Andre Benjamin (Andre 3000, Outkast.) The series was created by Andre Benjamin and Tommy Lynch (South of Nowhere, Romeo!.)
Today Ventura is a multi-award winning writer/director with a dozen music videos and television commercials under his belt and recently received the 2009 GOLD REMI AWARD at the prestigious World-Fest Houston International Film Festival for his short film 'Winter'.
Ventura is a fine art painter and his recent show, 'Mickeyanic', has shown at the Walt Disney headquarters in London UK and at the Disney Consumer Product building in Los Angeles CA.
His latest solo exhibition from May 2010 included 87 new canvases you can view here on the artist's website at venturaexit.com
Ventura lives in South Pasadena, California.
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EXHIBITS:
Project Infest: 2010 Group Show at Project Infest Warehouse 3201 Maple Avenue Los Angeles CA USA
Temporary Contemporary: 2010 Group Show at SPARC Gallery 909 South Pasadena CA USA
Hotter Than July: 2010 Group Show at Gallery Godo, Glendale CA USA
Art Maze: 2010 Group Show at Gallery Godo, Glendale CA USA
Epicycloidal: 2010 One-Man-Show at Gallery Godo, Glendale CA USA
Art Fools: 2010 Group Show at Gallery Godo, Glendale CA USA
Trashed at Coachella: 2010 Group Show at Coachella Music Festival, Indio CA USA
Trashed at Coachella: 2010 Group Show at POVevolving Gallery, Los Angeles CA USA
Art March: 2010 Group Show at Gallery Godo, Glendale CA USA
Erotica: 2010 Group Show at Gallery Godo, Glendale CA USA
Air de Art #5: 2009 Group Show at Gallery Godo, Glendale CA USA
The Dark Side of the Light: 2009 Group Show at Gallery Godo, Glendale CA USA
F.A.M.e.: 2009 Group Show at: Pull My Daisy, Silver Lake CA USA
Mickeyanic -The Art of Valerio Ventura: at Walt Disney, Hammersmith, London UK
Katrina Relief 5: 2009 Group Show at Lieberman Space, S. Pasadena CA USA
Distorted Views: Group Show at Gallery Godo, Glendale CA USA
Trashed at Coachella: 2009 Group Show at Coachella Music Festival, Indio CA USA
Mickeyanic -The Art of Valerio Ventura: 2009 at Consumer Product, Glendale CA USA
Buy This Trash: 2009 One-Man-Show at Cartoon Network, Burbank CA USA
Katrina Relief 4: 2008 Group Show at Lieberman Space, S. Pasadena CA USA
The Art of Valerio Ventura: 2008 One-Man-Show at Wax Poetic Gallery, Burbank CA USA
Too F&N Cute: 2008 Group Show at Pehrspace, Hollywood CA USA
Katrina Relief 3: 2007 Group Show at Lieberman Space, S. Pasadena CA USA
The Holiday Show: 2007 Group Show at Van Eatons Gallery, Sherman Oaks CA USA
NCompass: 2007 Group Show at NCompass, West Hollywood CA USA
Art Mitzvah: 2007 Group Show at Infusion Gallery, Down Town LA, CA USA
Un-Animated: 2007 Group Show at Universal Art Gallery, Venice CA USA
NCompass: 2006 Group Show at NCompass, West Hollywood CA USA
The Holyday Show: 2006 Group Show at Van Eatons Gallery, Sherman Oaks CA USA
Katrina Relief 2: 2006 Group Show at Lieberman Space, S. Pasadena CA USA
Zoix: 2006 One-Man-Show at Cartoon Network, Burbank CA USA
Katrina Relief 1: 2005 Group Show at Lieberman Space, S. Pasadena CA USA
F.A.M.e.: 2005 Group Show at: L. B. Mayer Building, Hollywood CA USA
Flawed: 2004 One-Man-Show at Bent Art Gallery, S. Pasadena CA USA
Design Retrospective: 2002 Duo Show at the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA USA
The Ensamble: 1985 Group Show at San Bernardino County Museum, San Bernardino CA USA
