Jimmy Valdez-Osaku

Jimmy Valdez-Osaku is an artist living and working in New York City. Jimmy is a poet, a painter and a cultural activist. His paintings and art installations have been exhibited in New York, San Juan, Havana, Santo Domingo, Tokyo, Madrid, and Toronto.

 Since 2004, he has been organizing and curating art exhibits in various cultural centers in New York City, to include: “Poetas que pintan” 2004, “Undertow” 2012, “6to Piso” 2013, “Te Deum” 2014, “Beautiful Memory of Horror” 2015, “Wabi Sabi” 2016, Resilencia 2017, Colateral 2017, and, most recently, "Fulguration" and “Rock–paper–scissors”. He was a finalist in the “Premio Diario Libre de Arte Contemporáneo (2015).”