Victoria Dugger — Sargent's Daughters

Victoria Dugger

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.