Victoria Burge

Harrisville, New Hampshire

Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.

About Victoria Burge

Victoria Burge smiles in a black and white photo. She is a white woman with light skin and dark hair in a bun, and wears a dark jacket and hoop earrings. She is sitting in front of a complex interconnected line art background.

Victoria Burge (b. 1976, New York) creates small-scale sculpture and works on paper. Her prints and drawings are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, New York Public Library, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and British Museum, among others. Burge is a recipient of a studio apprenticeship at The Fabric Workshop and Museum, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and residencies awarded by MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. In 2022, she was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. Burge is a 2024-2025 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow.

Program Participation

Joan Mitchell Fellowship, 2024

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Within special collection libraries, I study accounts of invisible, often radical labor by women. The work I have produced in response to this research is not only an homage to pioneering women but to the importance and study of visual languages, analog archives, and tangible data.”