Carlos Valladares

Carlos Valladares is a writer and critic from Los Angeles, currently residing in New York. Valladares studied film at Stanford University and began his PhD in History of Art and Film & Media Studies at Yale University in fall 2019. He contributes regularly to the Gagosian, Art in America, n+1, and Frieze.

Valladares will be writing a series of essays for newest cycle of Art of Film Happy Hour: The Cinema of Joy. Get new insights into every film before it screens by subscribing to the free Film Society E-Newsletter

Previous film cycles with Valladares at the Peoria Riverfront Museum include Frame to Frame: Where Film Meets Art and a special Art of Film showing with the 1973 film by Jerry Schartzberg: Scarecrow.