V. Maldonado

American (born 1976)

V. Maldonado (they/them) is an artist, curator, educator, and writer who lives and works in Portland, Oregon. They use painting, printmaking, and drawing alongside performance, installation, and intervention. Their work expresses the power of identity.

Maldonado was born in Michoacan, Mexico, and grew up in the Central California in a family of migrant field workers. They earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the California College of Art (2000) and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago (2005). Maldonado served as a professor at the Pacific Northwest College of Art from 2007 to 2021.