EDUCATION
2003 Bachelor of Fine Art, Drawing: Victorian College of the Arts
2001 Diploma of Visual Arts: RMIT
1996 Honours: Anthropology / Sociology: La Trobe University
1994 Bachelor of Arts, Double Major, Pacific Studies and Anthropology: La Trobe University

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Luminist Alliance Francaise, St Kilda
2008 Turner Galleries, Perth
2007 El Dorado Springs, Flinders Lane Gallery
2006 Linden Project Room, Melbourne Art Fair
2005 The Organisation of the View, 3015 Paris France; With a View to Paradise, Marios
2004 With a View To Paradise, Linden St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Art
2001 Valles Marinaris: First Site RMIT

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Treasures Flinders Lane Gallery
2008 Here and Now, Flinders Lane Gallery
2008 The Perfumed Garden, Flinders Lane Gallery
2007 Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle, Valerie Sparks and Polixeni Papapetrou, Roger Williams Gallery Auckland, New Zealand
2007 The View from Here II, Flinders Lane Gallery
2007 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast Art Gallery
2006 Proof, NGV Ian Potter
2006 Tidal, Devenport Art Award, Finalist
2006 Treasures, Flinders Lane Gallery
2006 The Alice Prize, Finalist
2006 Inhabitation, Australian Galleries
2006 Linden Post Card Show, Linden Contemporary Art Gallery
2005 Linden Post Card Show, Linden Contemporary Art Gallery
2004 Swan Hill Print and Acquisition Award, Swan Hill Regional Gallery
2004 Explorations 5, Flinders Lane Gallery
2004 Untitled, Flinders Lane Gallery
2004 Select Graduate Students Exhibition, VCA RMIT, Monash, Dickerson Gallery
2004 Linden Post Card Show, Linden St-Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts
2003 Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts
2003 Proud, Friends of the VCA Exhibition
2003 Artist's Wallpapers, Platform Arts
2003 Wallara Travel Scholarship Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts;
2003 Segue, 3rd Year Drawing Department Student Gallery VCA;
2003 Linden Post Card Show, Linden Contemporary Art Gallery
2002 Proud, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery
2002 May 8 Drawing Department Student Exhibition, Student Gallery VCA
2001 actual results may vary, RMIT Diploma of Visual Arts Graduate Show, Project Space RMIT

PRIZES AND AWARDS
2007 Rupert Bunny Fellowship, City of Port Phillip
2006 The Tammy Kingsley, People's Choice Award, The Alice Prize;
2006 Linden Post Card Show, 1 of 6 works selected for reproduction as a Linden Post Card;
2006 Arts Victoria Grant, International Touring
2005 Australia Council and Ian Potter grants to conduct research in France and Spain for new work.
2003 Orloff Family Award for Innovation and Excellence in New Media and Digital Art;VCA
2003 Irene Sutton Award; Victorian College of the Arts
2003 Ladies Who Lunch Prize; Victorian College of the Arts
2003 Finalist, Wallara Travel Scholarship Victorian College of the Arts
2002 Proud, Friends of the VCA Acquisition Prize

COMMISSIONS
2006 Short listed, Parramatta Justice Precinct Public Art Installations
2005 Michael and Sylvia Kantor: Gifted to the Malthouse Theatre

COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Victoria
Art Bank
Hamilton Regional Gallery
Art Support, Australian Business Arts Foundation
Malthouse Theatre
Alliance Francaise Melbourne
Private Collections Australia, London, Paris

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ashley Crawford, Here and Now Catalogue, pp34-39, 2008
Adam Gillford, Vanishing into the landscape, New Zealand Herald
Rachel Anthony, Paradise on Paper, Vogue Living May/June 2007
Kirsty Grant, Proof., National Gallery of Victoria Catalogue
Melissa Miles Inhabitation, Folio for Inhabitation, Australian Galleries
Ulanda Blair, Review, With a View to Paradise. UN-magazine Issue 3
Robert Nelson, St Kilda, Beached The Age December 2004
Josh Daniel, Virtual Paradise, Digital Installations by Valerie Sparks, Imprint, Vol 38 Number 4