Valerie Soe is a renowned artist and academic, whose innovative and critically acclaimed experimental videos, installations, and documentary films have garnered widespread recognition and accolades since 1986. Her impressive body of work has been showcased at esteemed film festivals, museums, and galleries across the globe.
Notably, her short experimental video "ALL ORIENTALS LOOK THE SAME" earned top honors at the 1987 Festival Internazionale Cinema Giovani in Torino, Italy, the 1987 Sony Corporation Visions of U.S. Festival, and the 12th Atlanta Film and Video Festival.
Soe's documentary film "PICTURING ORIENTAL GIRLS: A (RE) EDUCATIONAL VIDEOTAPE" won Best Bay Area Short at the 1992 San Francisco International Film Festival, while her feature documentary "Love Boat: Taiwan" was released in 2019 and received the Audience Award at the Urban Nomad Film Festival in Taipei, Taiwan, and has enjoyed sold-out festival audiences across North America and Taiwan.
In 2020, Soe collaborated with Kronos Quartet and the Auntie Sewing Squad on the short experimental documentary "Radical Care: The Auntie Sewing Squad", which won a Director's Choice Award at the 2021 Thomas Edison Film Festival and the 2021 Best of Bernal Award at Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema.
In addition to her impressive artistic career, Soe is also a respected Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University, where she continues to inspire and educate the next generation of artists and scholars.
