Victoria Duffee (b. 1988, NYC) lives and works in Oslo. Her studio practice incorporates textiles, jewelry, and objects that straddle and challenge conventional boundaries between art and craft to explore collective relationships to identity, gender, and memory. Through processes of weaving, painting, and casting materials, she seeks to establish a profound connection between the feminine domains of attire and the home, as these are the aesthetic objects entwined in our everyday lives and collective memory.
She was educated at the School of Visual Arts (2007-2010) in New York and the University of the Arts in Oslo (2016-2018). In recent years, she has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Oslo, New York, and Los Angeles, and had solo exhibitions at Salgshallen Gallery and Buer Gallery in Oslo. She has exhibited at institutional venues such as the Chart Art Fair with Kunsthall Oslo and the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, contributing a work to Anna Daniel's "A Gift From A Woman."
Other projects include the art criticism magazine "Vi Ser På Kunst," which she founded with art historian Andreas Breivik in 2016. In 2020, she created "Kunsteventyr," a web series promoted through Black Box Teater, aimed at teaching art history in a DIY manner for children stuck at home during the pandemic.
Image 1: Wiggle Sword (attached to Anna Daniel’s piece, En Gave Fra En Kvinne) 2021
Image 2: Phallus and Portal pendants with Love ring from the pajamas series, 2019. Photo: Marcus McDonald
Image 3: Zinna Pendant and accompanying publication. Cast silver, 2023
