BIOGRAPHY
Visual Artist | Santiago, Chile
Valentina Cox (b. 1986, Santiago, Chile) is a visual artist specializing in contemporary sculpture. Her artistic journey began at an early age, when she started exhibiting and selling her work independently. She later studied Visual Arts and Photography at Universidad del Pacífico (Santiago, Chile), building a strong technical foundation that now supports her three-dimensional practice.
After more than a decade in the financial sector, she developed a strategic vision that she now channels into her artistic career. In 2024, she fully committed to sculpture, founding her own studio in Santiago, where she teaches stoneware ceramics and creates her personal body of work.
Her sculptural practice explores materiality as a vehicle for expression, merging organic and structural elements in pieces that invite contemplation and a return to the essential. Through her artwork and teaching, she fosters a deep connection with creative process and form.
She currently lives and works in Santiago, Chile.
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STATEMENT
My sculptural practice centers on the exploration of iron and stoneware ceramics—two materials in apparent contrast that, when brought together, create a dialogue between rigidity and organicity, permanence and fragility. Through this duality, I aim to express internal tensions, transformation processes, and states of unstable balance.
Iron, with its structural strength and industrial weight, represents containment and support. Ceramics, hand-shaped and transformed by fire, embodies vulnerability, change, and what is deeply human. My work emerges from the encounter between these materials, seeking to reconcile opposites and reveal beauty in contradiction.
Each piece is the result of a physical and meditative process, where making is just as important as the final form. From my studio, I combine creation with teaching, fostering a hands-on relationship with material as a path for personal exploration and artistic expression.
