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Ed Valentine (21 April, 1951 in Columbus, Ohio) is an American painter, curator and college professor. He earned a BFA from The Columbus College of Art and Design and an MFA from The Ohio State University.

He has been exhibiting nationally and internationally since the early 1970s and maintains studios in Ohio and Jersey City, New Jersey. In addition, he heads the Department of Art at The Ohio State University, Lima and has been sole curator for their exhibition space (now The Farmer Family Gallery ) since 1997.

His career as a New York painter began after moving to Greenpoint Brooklyn in 1980 and in 1982 was included in a large artist run group show titled The All Fools Show in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. After moving to 217 Bowery, in Manhattan, late in 1982, he began showing with galleries in the East Village, Soho.

He is currently represented by Linda Warren Projects in Chicago, Ill, Envoy Enterprises in NYC and Angela Meleca Gallery in Columbus, Ohio.

He has been described as: "an artist with strong painterly gifts" Cathy Curtis, Los Angeles Times. Of his portraits James Yood in ART LTD says;

His work has been described as "visually stimulating" Artsy. In a review by Cathy Curtis in The Los Angeles Times, Curtis wrote: Ed Valentine's recent landscapes are studded with fluid, inventive passages that effortlessly segue from pure paint revels to here-and-now realism and a dreamy otherworldliness.