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

Tough Love

Death of Beauty

Out of Body

My Flannel Knickers

News

2024 Hudgens Prize Winner | September 28, 2024

emotion, curated by Jiha Moon & Veronica Kessenich, Laney Contemporary, Savannah, GA | September 17 – November 2, 2024

Pocket Book Club: Good Country People by Flannery O’Connor | Tuesday, October 8 at 6:30pm

Cultured Mag | September 4, 2024

Hudgens Prize Competition and Exhibition, Hudgens Center for Art & Learning, Duluth, GA | August 17 – October 26, 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

Cypher, curated by Brittany Adeline King & Anna Akpele, Fierman Gallery, New York, NY | March 30 – April 28, 2024

MacDowell Residency, Peterborough, NH | Spring/Summer 2024

Nudity is not Radical!, Kravets Wehby, New York, NY | January 5 – February 3, 2024

CURRENTS: Adaption, Brilliance, and Joy, The Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN | December 7, 2023 – February 25, 2024

Burnaway Magazine | September 5, 2023

2023 Southern Prize for Visual Arts Winner | August 18, 2023

2023 Southern Prize and State Fellows for Visual Arts, Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, MS | August 17 - December 13, 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

Frieze | April 5, 2023

Arts Atlanta | January 11, 2023

New Worlds: Georgia Women to Watch, curated by Melissa Messina and Sierra King, in collaboration with NMWA, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA | January 27 – June 4, 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

Art Observed | May 27, 2022

Vogue | May 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

ARTnews | October 6, 2021

artnet | July 20, 2021

Hyperallergic | July 12, 2021

Whitehot Magazine | July 2021

artdaily | June 29, 2021