Valerie Marshall is an artist and architect based in Helsinki; She holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Toronto, where she studied as an Ontario Graduate Scholar and received the Faculty Design Prize.
Valerie has worked at leading architecture firms in North America and Europe; she has worked on projects of various scales and typologies across the world. After graduation, she specialized in heritage architecture in Canada, focusing on masonry buildings and studying heritage masonry restoration in Scotland. Her interest in designing in harmony with nature led her to the Nordics, where she worked on high-end hospitality projects in Finland and Asia.
Valerie’s art practice uses traditional architectural drafting techniques to explore contemporary issues relating to the built environment. Valerie has exhibited and been published internationally, and has received funding from the Toronto Arts Council. She is currently working on artistic projects that explore the sites and structures that contemporary societies rely on, but often go unnoticed.
You can reach me on instagram, or email me at: Valerie.A.Marshall@outlook.com
Exhibitions
2025: Sunspot Soho: “Infosphere No. 1, Infosphere No. 5” Group Exhibition. Online.
2024: “Infosphere” Myymälä2, Process Wall. Solo Exhibition. Helsinki, Finland.
2024: “Infosphere No. 1” Drawing for Food, Group Charity Auction.
2023: Escape In/Out: “Factory Collage 1, Farm Collage, Almond Blossoms” Group Exhibition. Online/Milan.
2023: C1en por Cientos: “Factory Collage 1, Factory Collage 2” Group Exhibition. Virtual.
2022: Your Brain on Art: “Wondering Forests” Group Exhibition. OCADU Great Hall. Toronto, Canada
2022: “Arctic Cows” Group Exhibition. Slanted Door Gallery. Toronto, Canada.
2022: “Housing Multitudes: Reimagining the Landscapes of Suburbia” Illustration and video contributions. Architecture and Design Gallery. Toronto, Canada.
2022: PASA Festival: “Factory Collages 1-3.” Group Exhibition. Seoul, South Korea.
2022: Silo Ono: “Factory Collage 2.” Group Exhibition. Online.
2022: Barns Art Market in the Park: “Typologies” Wychwood Barns. Toronto, Canada.
2018: Specimens and Fragments: “865 Objects” Group Exhibition. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. Toronto, Canada.
Publications
2025: “Seagull” Opt West Literary and Arts Magazine
2025: “Axonometrics” The Adroit Journal
2025: “Infosphere Paintings” The Lincoln Review
2025: “Garden of Earthly Delights” Ink Nest
2025: “Farm Collage No. 1” Northern New England Review
2025: “Farm Collage No. 5” Nat 1
2024: Infosphere (Artist’s monograph)
2024: “Pasila” Opt West Literary and Arts Magazine
2023: “Concrete Factory No. 1 & 2” Grinkin Magazine
2023: “Cairo Pigeon Towers” Opt West Literary and Arts Magazine
2023: “Archive of Souls” The Lincoln Review
2022: “Farm Collage No. 3” Olney Magazine
2022: “Close Encounters on the Range” The Pandemic Post
2022: “Toronto Collage No. 1” Opt West Literary and Arts Magazine
2022: “Almond Blossoms” Coffee People
2021: “Developed Surface Drawings” The Annual
2021: “Bedroom Developed Surface” Interiors of Isolation
2020: “Travel Drawings: Italy” Blog OAA Summer Sketches
2020: “Moor + Rift” The Annual
2019: “865 Objects” The Annual
2018: “Futurism(s)” Harvard University Press
Architecture
2023-2024: Studio Puisto
2021-2023: ERA Architects
2021: Steven Fong Architect & Office Make Good
2017: PARTISANS
2014-2015, 2018: Situate Design Build
Academic
2018-2021: University of Toronto: Teaching Assistant (8 courses)
2020-2021: Michael Piper & Richard Sommer: Urban Design and Mapping
2019: Jeanie Kim & Mauricio Quirós Pacheco: Walk-up Housing Research & Design
2017-2020: Master of Architecture, University of Toronto
2012-2016: HBA with Distinction, University of Toronto. Art History & Architecture Design
Awards
Emerging Artist Grant, Toronto Arts Council
Honourable Mention - August Call for Drawings, KoozArch
Faculty Design Prize, University of Toronto
COVID-19 Student Engagement Award, University of Toronto
Ontario Graduate Scholarship