Patssi Valdez (born 1951) is an American chicana artist.
She grew up in East Los Angeles. She graduated from Otis Art Institute with a BFA, in 1985.[1] She was part of the ASCO artist collective.[2][3][4][5][6]
She is the recipient of J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts fellowship,[7] and the Brody Arts Fellowship in Visual Arts. She won a 2001 Durfee Artist Fellowship.[8]
In 2000, she showed at Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica.[9] In 2006, she showed at the Angels Gate Cultural Center.[10] In 2011, she showed at Fowler Museum at UCLA.[11]
Her art work is in the National Hispanic Center Collection,[12] National Museum of American Art, the Tucson Museum of Art, the San Jose Museum of Art, and the El Paso Museum of Art.
She lives and works in Los Angeles.