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.
She has worked at award-winning architecture firms across North America and Europe. Early in her career Valerie focused on heritage masonry architecture in Canada and studied masonry restoration in Scotland. Her European experience includes sauna and resort projects in Finland and Asia with Studio Puisto, and nightclub projects in the UK with NIKJOO.
Valerie’s art practice uses traditional hand drafting techniques to explore the sites and structures that contemporary societies rely on but often go unnoticed.
You can contact her at: val.marshall@proton.me
Exhibitions & Art Projects
2026: “Sótano” Syvä, 21 art pieces. Group exhibition with Valentina Bravo, Juan Pablo Manríquez, Katariina Guthwert. Helsinki, Finland.
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
2026: “Fox Hunt” & “Arctic Cows” Midwest Review, Volume 13
2025: “Conversation with Valerie Marshall” Scaffold* Journal
2025: “Seagull” Opt West Literary and Arts Magazine
2025: “Infosphere Paintings” The Lincoln Review
2025: “Home Palimpsest” Paper Dragon
2025: “Tampere” Split Lip Magazine
2025: “Tower No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9” Stonecoast Review
2025: “Factory Collage No. 1 & 2” New Delta Review
2025: “Axonometrics” The Adroit Journal
2025: “Farm Collage No. 4” Gulf Stream Magazine
2025: “Garden of Earthly Delights” Ink Nest Poetry
2025: “Farm Collage No. 1” Northern New England Review
2025: “Tower Collage” Magazine1
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
2025: NIKJOO, London
2023-2024: Studio Puisto, Helsinki
2021-2023: ERA Architects, Toronto
2021: Steven Fong Architect & Office Make Good, Toronto
2017: PARTISANS, Toronto
2015, 2018: Situate Design Build, Toronto
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
2026: Start-Up Grant, City of Helsinki
2026: ASA Experimental Design Competition, 2nd Prize, Association of Siamese Architects (Vivo Co, with Lana West)
2023: Emerging Artist Grant, Toronto Arts Council
2023: Honourable Mention - August Call for Drawings, KoozArch
2021: Faculty Design Prize, University of Toronto
2020: COVID-19 Student Engagement Award, University of Toronto
2017-18: Ontario Graduate Scholarship