Victoria Fu was born in Santa Monica, CA and lives in San Diego, CA. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University, a Master of Arts from University of Southern California, and a Master of Fine Arts from California Institute of the Arts and attended the the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME. Fu has received awards and fellowships from the Harpo Foundation, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Art Matters, Mellon Foundation, and Rema Hort Mann Foundation. One-person exhibitions of her work have been mounted at Cal Poly University Gallery, San Luis Obispo (2019); The Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, AZ (2018); Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY (2016); Center for Ongoing Research & Projects, Columbus, OH (2015); The Contemporary, Baltimore, MD (2015); University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA (2014); Anderson Hall Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia (2013); and Savannah College of Art + Design, Savannah, GA (2009). Fu’s collaborative work with Matt Rich has been featured in monographic exhibitions at Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA (2019); University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA (2018); The Suburban, Milwaukee, WI (2017); and Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro CA (2017). Her work has been included in thematic exhibitions and screenings such as Brave New Worlds: Explorations in Sculpture, Palm Springs Art Museum, CA (2019); Being Here With You/ Estando Aqui Contigo: 42 Artists From San Diego and Tiujana, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA (2018); Within Genres, Pérez Art Museum Miami, (2017); Open Window, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2016); A Painting Is A Painting Isn’t A Painting, Kadist Foundation, San Francisco (2015); Vision Quest, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2015); 2014 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2014); Trouble with the Index, UC Riverside/California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA (2014); and IX Bienal de Nicaragua, Fundación Ortiz Gurdian, Managua, Nicaragua (2014). Victoria Fu’s work can be found in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; the Perez Art Museum, Miami; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
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Installation view, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
Installation view, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
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Biography
VICTORIA FU (b. Santa Monica, California, USA) is a visual artist who received her MFA from CalArts, MA in Art History/Museum Studies from University of Southern California, and BA from Stanford University. She attended the Whitney Independent Study Program and was in residence at Skowhegan. Fu has received grants from Art Matters, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Harpo Foundation, and is a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow. Her artwork is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA. She lives and works in San Diego, where she is Associate Professor of Art at University of San Diego.
Her art installations have been exhibited in solos including at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ; California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, CA; DeutscheBank VIP Commission at Frieze Los Angeles; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Center for Ongoing Research & Projects (COR&P), Columbus, OH; The Contemporary, Baltimore, MD; University Art Gallery at UC Irvine, CA. Group venues include the 2014 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA; 52nd and 53rd New York Film Festivals, New York, NY; IX Nicaragua Biennial, Managua, Nicaragua; among others.
Along with Oslo-based curator and media art historian Susanne Ø. Saether, Fu co-organized the conference Touching the Screen about the influence of touchscreen technologies on artists’ moving image at the University of Oslo. They are currently working on a related publication.
In 2017, she and Matt Rich began a collaborative studio practice, combining aesthetic sensibilities and working processes, which was awarded the San Diego Art Prize. Their collaborations have been exhibited at Document, Chicago, IL; EXPO Chicago, Chicago, IL; La Jolla Athenaeum, La Jolla, CA; NADA Miami, FL; Frieze Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA; Miller/ICA at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; and in solo exhibitions at The Suburban, Milwaukee, WI; Angels Gate Cultural Center; San Pedro, CA; University Hall Gallery, UMass Boston, MA; Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA.