Victoria Dugger
Bed Bugs Bite, 2024, Gouache, fabric, and pearls on wood panel, 60 x 72 x 2 in.
Sugar Coat It, 2024, Garden chair, tutu, nylon stockings, pearls, and fabric trim, 34 x 22 x 14 in.
Victoria Dugger (b. 1991, Columbus, Georgia) is a visual artist who lives and works in Athens, Georgia. Recent exhibitions include New Worlds: Georgia Women to Watch, Atlanta Contemporary, National Museum of Women in the Arts (Atlanta, GA), F*CK ART: The Body and It’s Absence, Museum of Sex (New York, NY), and Soft Anatomy, JEFF (Marfa, TX). She had her first solo exhibition in New York at Sargent’s Daughters called Out of Body which was reviewed by ARTnews and Hyperallergic.
Her practice spans painting, mixed media works, and sculpture. Working across these forms, she produces objects that blur accepted categories, exploring novel modes of self-expression and embodiment. She dissects her identity as a Black, disabled woman through a blend of playful compositions and grotesque imagery.
Dugger recently received her MFA in Studio & Design at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. She was recently an Artist in Residence at the Lyndon House Arts Center (Athens, GA). Victoria was named the 2023 Southern Prize for Visual Arts winner and her work is now part of a traveling exhibition, featuring the South Prize and State Fellowship recipients. The show is currently exhibiting at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi, Mississippi, and will later be shown at the Bo Bartlett Center at Columbus State University (Columbus, Georgia), and the Florida Department of State in (Tallahassee, Florida). The artist had her debut new York solo show "Out of Body" with Sargent’s Daughters in July 2021. Dugger’s work has been featured in Hyperallergic, artnet, ARTnews, Art Observed, Whitehot Magazine, Vogue and artdaily, and she was included in New American Paintings 159. She is represented by Sargent’s Daughters.
Exhibitions
My Flannel Knickers
News
2024 Hudgens Prize Winner | September 28, 2024
Pocket Book Club: Good Country People by Flannery O’Connor | Tuesday, October 8 at 6:30pm
Cultured Mag | September 4, 2024
Site-specific installation, Hartfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Concourse E, Atlanta, GA
Hudgens Prize 2024 Finalist | The Hudgens Center for Art & Learning, Duluth, GA
MacDowell Residency, Peterborough, NH | Spring/Summer 2024
Nudity is not Radical!, Kravets Wehby, New York, NY | January 5 – February 3, 2024
Burnaway Magazine | September 5, 2023
2023 Southern Prize for Visual Arts Winner | August 18, 2023
FINDERS KEEPERS, VSOP Projects, curated by Natalie Baxter, Greenport, NY | June 3 – July 16, 2023
2023 State Fellow for Visual Arts | South Arts Awards
The New York Times | April 18, 2023
Arts Atlanta | January 11, 2023
Refinery29 | September 1, 2022
Artist in Residence, Lyndon House Art Center, Athens, GA | Fall 2022
New American Paintings 159 | April/May 2022
Platform online viewing room | June 2022
F*CK ART: The Body and It’s Absence, Museum of Sex, New York, NY | June 10 – October 11, 2022
Soft Anatomy, JEFF, Marfa, TX | May 5 – July 1, 2022
Downstream, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA | April 15 – May 14, 2022