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'''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.<ref name="USD">{{cite web |url=http://www.sandiego.edu/cas/art/faculty-and-staff/biography.php?profile_id=574 |title=Biography - Victoria Fu, MFA |website=University of San Diego |access-date=8 March 2015}}</ref> She is currently Assistant Professor of Film/Video Art at the [[University of San Diego]].
'''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.


==Education==
==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]].<ref name="USD" />
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]].<ref name="USD">{{cite web|title=Biography - Victoria Fu, MFA|url=http://www.sandiego.edu/cas/art/faculty-and-staff/biography.php?profile_id=574|access-date=8 March 2015|website=University of San Diego}}</ref> Fu attended the [[Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture]] and the [[Whitney Museum of American Art#Independent study program|Whitney Independent Study Program]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Cotter |first=Holland |date=12 May 2006 |title=Art in Review; Whitney Independent Study Program |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03EED6173EF931A25756C0A9609C8B63 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 March 2015}}</ref>


== Career ==
Fu attended the [[Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture]] and the [[Whitney Museum of American Art#Independent study program|Whitney Independent Study Program]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Cotter |first=Holland |date=12 May 2006 |title=Art in Review; Whitney Independent Study Program |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03EED6173EF931A25756C0A9609C8B63 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 March 2015}}</ref>
Fu is co-founder of ARTOFFICE.org (with [[Julie Orser]]), an organization established in 2006 dedicated to artists's film and video.<ref name="USD" /> She is currently an Associate Professor of the Visual Arts and Co-Director of Film Studies at the [[University of San Diego]].<ref name="USD" /> Her work has been described as questioning the "cultural and psychological spaces of viewership that define the cinematic."<ref name=":1" /> In [[Artillery (magazine)|Artillery]], Seth Hawkins writes her "work transitions seamlessly from photo to film."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hawkins |first=Seth |date=2014-03-05 |title=Victoria Fu |url=https://artillerymag.com/victoria-fu/ |access-date=2022-04-08 |website=Artillery Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref> She is a 2015 Film and Video Fellow of the [[Guggenheim Fellowship|John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Victoria Fu |url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/victoria-fu/ |access-date=2016-03-05 |website=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation}}</ref>


==Selected works==
== Work ==
* ''Belle Captive I'', (2013) is a video installation that uses appropriated stock footage that is transferred from 16&nbsp;mm film to digital video. The piece was presented in the lobby gallery of the 2014 [[Whitney Biennial]].<ref name="Whitney Museum of American Art">{{cite web|title=Whitney Museum of American Art|url=http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2014Biennial/VictoriaFu|website=Whitney Museum of Art|accessdate=8 March 2015}}</ref>
''Belle Captive I'', (2013) is a video installation that uses appropriated stock footage that is transferred from 16&nbsp;mm film to digital video. The piece was presented in the lobby gallery of the 2014 [[Whitney Biennial]].<ref name=":0" />
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* ''Lorem ipsum I'', (2013) "is a flow of fragmentary images [that] flirts with and recoil[s] from a fully integrated, intact portrait."<ref name="Art Forum">{{cite web|last1=Pipolo|first1=Tony|title=Art Forum|url=http://artforum.com/film/id=48470|website=Art Forum|publisher=Art Forum|accessdate=8 March 2015}}</ref> This digital video screened at the "Projections" program at the [[New York Film Festival]] in 2014.


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''Lorem ipsum I'', (2013) "is a flow of fragmentary images [that] flirts with and recoil[s] from a fully integrated, intact portrait."<ref name="Art Forum">{{cite web|last1=Pipolo|first1=Tony|title=Art Forum|url=http://artforum.com/film/id=48470|website=Art Forum|access-date=8 March 2015}}</ref> This digital video screened at the "Projections" program at the [[New York Film Festival]] in 2014.
She is a 2015 Film and Video Fellow of the [[Guggenheim Fellowship|John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/victoria-fu/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation {{!}} Victoria Fu|website=www.gf.org|access-date=2016-03-05}}</ref>


In 2014 she was part of the Whitney Biennial exhibition.<ref>http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2014Biennial/VictoriaFu</ref>
In 2014, her sculptural and video based abstract work was part of the Whitney Biennial exhibition in its lobby gallery.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2014 |title=Victoria Fu |url=https://whitney.org/exhibitions/2014-biennial/Victoria-Fu |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161112000702/http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2014Biennial/VictoriaFu |archive-date=12 November 2016 |access-date=7 April 2022 |website=Whitney Museum of American Art}}</ref>

[[Contemporary Museum Baltimore|The Contemporary Museum]] in Baltimore had a 2015 solo exhibit of Fu's work, ''Bubble Over Green''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015 |title=Bubble Over Green by Victoria Fu |url=https://www.contemporary.org/projects/bubble-over-green/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220814055524/https://www.contemporary.org/projects/bubble-over-green/ |archive-date=14 August 2022 |access-date=25 January 2023 |website=[[Contemporary Museum Baltimore|Contemporary]]}}</ref>

The Simon Preston Gallery in New York hosted their second exhibit of Fu's work in 2017.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Anton |first=Saul |date=2 October 2017 |title=Victoria Fu |language=en |work=Frieze |issue=191 |url=https://www.frieze.com/article/victoria-fu |url-status=usurped |access-date=25 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220813102320/https://www.frieze.com/article/victoria-fu |archive-date=13 August 2022 |issn=0962-0672}}</ref>

In 2022, Fu collaborated with choreography Milka Djordjevich and fellow visual artist Matt Richto put on an original show at the Getty Center.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022 |title=Ever Present: Milka Djordjevich, Victoria Fu, and Matt Rich |url=https://www.getty.edu/visit/cal/events/everpresent_Djordjevich.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230125234427/https://www.getty.edu/visit/cal/events/everpresent_Djordjevich.html |archive-date=25 January 2023 |access-date=25 January 2023 |website=[[J. Paul Getty Museum]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Dambrot |first=Shana Nys |date=6 October 2022 |title=People Power: Arts Calendar October 6-12 |url=https://www.laweekly.com/people-power-arts-calendar-october-6-12/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230126002343/https://www.laweekly.com/people-power-arts-calendar-october-6-12/ |archive-date=26 January 2023 |access-date=25 January 2023 |website=[[LA Weekly]] |language=en-US}}</ref> Fu's work was also part of the [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]] 2022 exhibit, "Objects of Desire: Photography and the Language of Advertising."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lloyd-Smith |first=Harriet |date=27 September 2022 |title=Objects of desire: the seductive exchange between fine art and advertising photography |url=https://www.wallpaper.com/art/objects-of-desire-lacma-exhibition-advertising-photography |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221003014614/https://www.wallpaper.com/art/objects-of-desire-lacma-exhibition-advertising-photography |archive-date=3 October 2022 |access-date=25 January 2023 |website=[[Wallpaper Magazine|Wallpaper]] |language=en}}</ref> Fu's work is included in the collection of the [[Pérez Art Museum Miami]], Florida.


==References==
==References==
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== Further reading ==
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* [http://drainmag.com/interview-with-victoria-fu/ Drain Magazine, Interview with Victoria Fu],
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https://www.moca.org/stream/post/introducing-victoria-fu-and-dylan-mira


==External links==
==External links==
* {{official website|victoriafu.com}}
* {{official website|victoriafu.com}}
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* [http://drainmag.com/interview-with-victoria-fu/ Drain Magazine, Interview with Victoria Fu]

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* [https://www.moca.org/stream/post/introducing-victoria-fu-and-dylan-mira Interview on the MOCA website]


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Latest revision as of 19:36, 3 July 2024

Victoria Fu
Born1978 (age 45–46)
Santa Monica, California, US
EducationStanford University (BA)
USC (MA)
Cal Arts (MFA)
Known forFilm, video, installation art
Notable workBelle Captive I (2013)
Lorem ipsum I (2013)
MovementConceptual art
Websitevictoriafu.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.

Education

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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]

Career

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Fu is co-founder of ARTOFFICE.org (with Julie Orser), an organization established in 2006 dedicated to artists's film and video.[1] She is currently an Associate Professor of the Visual Arts and Co-Director of Film Studies at the University of San Diego.[1] Her work has been described as questioning the "cultural and psychological spaces of viewership that define the cinematic."[3] In Artillery, Seth Hawkins writes her "work transitions seamlessly from photo to film."[4] She is a 2015 Film and Video Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.[3]

Work

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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.[5]

Lorem ipsum I, (2013) "is a flow of fragmentary images [that] flirts with and recoil[s] from a fully integrated, intact portrait."[6] This digital video screened at the "Projections" program at the New York Film Festival in 2014.

In 2014, her sculptural and video based abstract work was part of the Whitney Biennial exhibition in its lobby gallery.[5]

The Contemporary Museum in Baltimore had a 2015 solo exhibit of Fu's work, Bubble Over Green.[7]

The Simon Preston Gallery in New York hosted their second exhibit of Fu's work in 2017.[8]

In 2022, Fu collaborated with choreography Milka Djordjevich and fellow visual artist Matt Richto put on an original show at the Getty Center.[9][10] Fu's work was also part of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art 2022 exhibit, "Objects of Desire: Photography and the Language of Advertising."[11] Fu's work is included in the collection of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida.

References

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  1. ^ a b c "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. ^ a b "Victoria Fu". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  4. ^ Hawkins, Seth (2014-03-05). "Victoria Fu". Artillery Magazine. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  5. ^ a b "Victoria Fu". Whitney Museum of American Art. 2014. Archived from the original on 12 November 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
  6. ^ Pipolo, Tony. "Art Forum". Art Forum. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  7. ^ "Bubble Over Green by Victoria Fu". Contemporary. 2015. Archived from the original on 14 August 2022. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
  8. ^ Anton, Saul (2 October 2017). "Victoria Fu". Frieze. No. 191. ISSN 0962-0672. Archived from the original on 13 August 2022. Retrieved 25 January 2023.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  9. ^ "Ever Present: Milka Djordjevich, Victoria Fu, and Matt Rich". J. Paul Getty Museum. 2022. Archived from the original on 25 January 2023. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
  10. ^ Dambrot, Shana Nys (6 October 2022). "People Power: Arts Calendar October 6-12". LA Weekly. Archived from the original on 26 January 2023. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
  11. ^ Lloyd-Smith, Harriet (27 September 2022). "Objects of desire: the seductive exchange between fine art and advertising photography". Wallpaper. Archived from the original on 3 October 2022. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
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