Victoria Fu

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.{{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}} Fu attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Whitney Independent Study Program.{{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}}

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

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.

Lorem ipsum I, (2013) "is a flow of fragmentary images [that] flirts with and recoil[s] from a fully integrated, intact portrait."{{cite web|last1=Pipolo|first1=Tony|title=Art Forum|url=http://artforum.com/film/id=48470|website=Art Forum|access-date=8 March 2015}} 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.{{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}}

The Contemporary Museum in Baltimore had a 2015 solo exhibit of Fu's work, Bubble Over Green.{{Cite web |date=2015 |title=Bubble Over Green by Victoria Fu |url=https://www.contemporary.org/projects/bubble-over-green/ |url-status=usurped |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}}

The Simon Preston Gallery in New York hosted their second exhibit of Fu's work in 2017.{{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}}

In 2022, Fu collaborated with choreography Milka Djordjevich and fellow visual artist Matt Richto put on an original show at the Getty Center.{{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}}{{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}} 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."{{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 |language=en}} Fu's work is included in the collection of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida.

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• {{official website|victoriafu.com}}
• [http://drainmag.com/interview-with-victoria-fu/ Drain Magazine, Interview with Victoria Fu]
• [https://www.moca.org/stream/post/introducing-victoria-fu-and-dylan-mira Interview on the MOCA website]

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