She uses a variety of media to weave histories—including drawing, papermaking, found-object collage, and radical archiving.

She received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and also studied in France at the Lacoste School.

In 2011, Valentine published Ticket to the Unknown, a translation the works of Swiss outsider artist Aloise Corbaz.

[13] She has received a Joan Mitchell MFA Grant,[14] a San Francisco Arts Commission Fellowship,[15] and a Creative Capital Emerging Fields Award.

[20] The ongoing project creates an oral archive,[21] salons and Wikipedia edit-a-thons.