Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE)

Mark Valenzuela

Australia

D.O.B: 07/01/1980

With a career spanning two decades, Mark Valenzuela is an Adelaide-based artist who works
between Australia and the Philippines. Although his practice wilfully resists categorisation, ceramics is
an enduring medium for Valenzuela and has functioned as a lynchpin to his many-parted installations
that combine elements of painting, drawing, sculpture, video, assemblage and street art.
Valenzuela's expanded ceramic practice is spatially sensitive, considering ideas of occupation and annexation; examines themes of conflict, dominance and resistance, reflecting on his early experiences growing up in army base camps throughout the southern Philippines.

Valenzuela was the Feature Artist for the 2022 SALA Festival and the recipient of the 2022 SALA
Publication, a monograph dedicated to his twenty-year practice. His works have featured in the 15th Australian Ceramics Triennale, the Jakarta Contemporary Ceramics Biennale, and the 2020
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art.