Victoria Fu

Victoria Fu
Born 1978 (age 39–40)
Santa Monica, California, US
Education Stanford University (BA)
USC (MA)
Cal Arts (MFA)
Known for Film, video, installation art
Notable work Belle Captive I (2013)
Lorem ipsum I (2013)
Movement Conceptual art
Website victoriafu.com

Victoria Fu (born 1978) is an American visual artist who is working in the field of digital video and analog film, and the interplay of photographic, screen based, and projected images. She is co-founder of ARTOFFICE.org (with Julie Orser), an organization established in 2006 dedicated to artists' film and video.[1] She is currently Assistant Professor of Film/Video Art at the University of San Diego, and i s represented by the Simon Preston Gallery in New York and by Honor Fraser Gallery in Los Angeles.

Education

Fu received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), MA (Phi Kappa Phi) in art history from the University of Southern California, and BA (with distinction) in art from Stanford University.[1]

Fu attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Whitney Independent Study Program.[2]

Selected works

  • Belle Captive I, (2013) is a video installation that uses appropriated stock footage that is transferred from 16 mm film to digital video. The piece was presented in the lobby gallery of the 2014 Whitney Biennial.[3]
  • Lorem ipsum I, (2013) "is a flow of fragmentary images [that] flirts with and recoil[s] from a fully integrated, intact portrait."[4] This digital video screened at the "Projections" program at the New York Film Festival in 2014.

Awards

Fu is a recipient of the 2013 Art Matters Grant.[5]

She is a 2015 Film and Video Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.[6]

Exhibitions

Whitney Biennial 2014 http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2014Biennial/VictoriaFu

References

  1. 1 2 "Biography - Victoria Fu, MFA". University of San Diego. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  2. ↑ Cotter, Holland (12 May 2006). "Art in Review; Whitney Independent Study Program". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  3. ↑ "Whitney Museum of American Art". Whitney Museum of Art. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  4. ↑ Pipolo, Tony. "Art Forum". Art Forum. Art Forum. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  5. ↑ "Art Matters Foundation". Art Matters Foundation. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  6. ↑ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Victoria Fu". www.gf.org. Retrieved 2016-03-05.

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