Valery Estabrook

Valery Estabrook is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans sculpture, video, installation, and social practice. With over a decade of experience in film and video production, her creative practice reflects a deep interest in storytelling, technology, and community engagement. She holds a BA in Visual Art from Brown University and an MFA in Drawing and Painting from Brooklyn College.

Valery has exhibited widely across the U.S. and internationally, with solo exhibitions at Auxiliary Projects (Brooklyn, NV), New Gallery (Clarksville, TN), New Image Gallery (Harrisonburg, VA), and SPRING/BREAK Art Show (New York, NY). Her work has also been featured in exhibitions at the Korean Cultural Center New York, EFA Project Space, Knockdown Center, Currents New Media Festival (Santa Fe, NM), BIDEODROMO Experimental Film and Video Festival (Bilbao, SP), and Channels Video Art Biennial (Melbourne, AU). Her awards include the Gold AHL-T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Award and the Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellowship at the University of Michigan’s Institute for the Humanities.

At the University of New Mexico, Valery most recently served as Lab Manager at ARTSLab, the university’s transdisciplinary facility for emerging media and digital fabrication, and also teaches interdisciplinary art within the BAIA program. She looks forward to bringing her enthusiasm for the moving-image arts and a community-centered ethos to her new role in the Department of Film and Digital Arts.

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