Valdez is a Texas-based artist whose large scale paintings and drawings display a career-long devotion to hyper-realistic detail and themes of social justice and memory. His works are featured in exhibitions and collections such as Ford Foundation, New York, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Smithsonian Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; among others. Valdez will join CAMH Exhibitions Manager and Assistant Curator Patricia Restrepo for a discussion of his newest works.