Valentine Aprile is an American multidisciplinary artist of Indigenous Mexican and European descent currently focusing on painting utilizing her acute understanding of storytelling, movement, and the expressive capabilities of the body and portrait.

Her oil paintings are are psychological image stories marrying abstraction and life study blending traditional techniques with intuitive improvisation, allowing for freedom to play with the characteristics of oil paint in relation to subject by using transparent layers against more opaque, applicative and reductive methods. 

I aim to engage viewers with complex cultural content: I explore themes of identity, justice, equity, power, and survival; seek connectedness between my mixed ancestral past with present societal issues; and research women’s movements in society and art. I ask myself how all this relates to cultural standards of “goodness,” rebelling against limiting norms by employing graphic disruptions and resolutions.

Valentine Aprile is also a portrait artist. Additionally, she has worked in various forms of dance, stage and site specific performance, video, filmmaking, acting, and directing.