Education
2011-17 PHD in Photography Practice/ Theory (AHRC studentship award), Birkbeck College, UL
2011-13 MA Printmaking (Distinction), Camberwell College of Art, UAL
2008-10 MA Art History and Contemporary Theory (Distinction), Birkbeck College, UL
2006-7 PGCE (PCET) for Art and Design, Greenwhich Maritime University
2003-6 BA Fine Art, Central St. Martins, University of the Arts London
2002-3 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Camberwell College of Art, UAL
Awards
- 2020 Installation award, WCPF
- 2019 Residency Award, Gate 44, Milan
- 2018 Via Arts Prize (finalist)
- 2016 Arte Laguna Prize (finalist)
- 2015 National Museum of Art Beijing Collection
- 2014 Neo:Print Prize finalist
- 2013 Clifford Chance Purchase Prize
- 2013 Printmakers Council Award
- 2013 Celeste Photography Prize
- 2010 Shortlisted for Association of Art Historians Writing Prize
EXHIBITIONS (Group and Solo)
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Forthcoming 2021:
- What on Earth, The Koppel Project, London June/July 2021
2019-2020
- Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair Online edition, Nov-Dec 2020
- Touch Me curated by Veronika Neukirch- Sept 2020 online at: http://www.veronikaneukirch.com/touch-me
- False Memories, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, Rugby 6 August-14 November 2020
- Radical Ventriloquism curated by Lee Campbell, Kelder Projects, London 13th March-19th April 2020
- Parts Unknown: Ground Truths (solo show) Enter Artspace, Aarhus, Denmark – 6th March- 20th April 2020
- Conditions, 89 Gloucester Road, Studio programme show London- Jan 2020
- Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London-7-10th November 2019
- PrintmEking, Gate44, Milano, Italy – December 2019 (postponed)
- Tierras Aridas, Jaen Museum of Art, Spain May- July 2019, Oaxaca, Mexico and Phoenix, Arizona
- Another Land, Kingston Museum and Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston, April 4th- June 29th 2019
- Sixty Years: Women’s Art in the Clifford Chance Art Collection, London, February 18th- 7th June 2019
- Interruptions: Disruptive discourses in Screen, Sound and Photography, Research Fortnight, LCC 7th March 2019 (Curated by Victoria Ahrens: talks, performance, discussions)
2017-2018
- Salon 18, Photofusion, London
- VIA Art Prize, Brazilian Embassy and Association of Cultural Attachés of Latin America, Spain and Portugal, in partnership with Itaú BBA and People’s Palace Projects, London
- Biennale de l’Image Tangible, Laure Tiberghien and Victoria Ahrens, bit20.parisParis, Nov-Dec 2018 http://bit20.paris/galeriejulio
- Tierras Aridas, Centro Cultural La Nau, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia 26th October- 18 November
- Ar(t)chaeology: Intersection between Art and Archaeology, International Association of Photography and Theory, NiMAC, Cyprus, October 2017-November 2018
- New Visions in Printmaking, Chelsea Triangle Space, London 12-26th October 2018
- IMPACT 10- Encuentros, two artist exhibition with Altea Grau, and conference paper, Santander, Spain, 1-9th of September 2018
- Douro Print Biennial, Alijó, Portugal 10th August- 31 October 2018
- Royal Academy Summer Show, London 12th June- 19th August 2018
- Bainbridge Open 2018, An Exhibition of Contemporary Print, ASC Gallery, London 9-15 June 2018
- Wonderer, Athens School of Fine Art, curated by Fronteer Art, Platforms Project
- Good Studios presents: Victoria Ahrens, Joanna Brinton, Katherine Eves, Copeland Park, Peckham, London, to coincide with Peckham 24 and Photo London
- Artificial Things, ARB Cambridge University and Shutter Hub, Cambridge
- Salon 17 Photofusion, London 8 December- 13 January 2018
- In Conversation, Printmaking Today, Winter edition, December 2017
- Buy Art Fair (10th Anniversary), Manchester
- Making It Real: Analogue LDN at Ugly Duck, London Alternative Photography Collective, London
- Burning with Pleasure 3, at Seen Fifteen Gallery and Photofusion, London
- Original Prints, Zillah Bell Gallery, Yorkshire curated by Norman Ackroyd CBE RA,
- Royal Academy Summer Show 2017, London
- Transformations and Collaborations, Instagram takeover, Moose on the Loose Research Biennale, PARC (Photography and Archive Research Centre), London
- Le Coq Artiste, Q Park, curated by Jude Cowan Montague and Matt Armstrong
2015- 2016
- What Lies Beneath, Peltz Room Gallery, solo show, 43 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London PHD exhibition
- Royal Academy Summer Show 2016, London selected by Stephen Chambers
- Arte Laguna Prize, Arsenale, Venice, 2016
- Contemporary Printmaking in the UK at Times Art Museum, Beijing , touring to Shanghai and Changsha, China 2016
- Intersecting Practice of Contemporary Printmaking in UK, IMPACT 9, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
- WAC Prize, at Wells Museum, Somerset, selected by Richard Wentworth, Mariele Neudecker, and Donald Smith, 9th October- 23rd of October 2015
- Longlisted for Anthology 2015, Charlie Smith Gallery, London 2015
- Under and Below, solo show at Peltz Gallery, Birkbeck School of Art, London
- Form/ Fragment, West Yorkshire Print Workshop Gallery, Yorkshire
2012-2014
- Micro Residency, Rio Carapachay, Tigre, Buenos Aires, Argentina- AHRC funded research project and exhibition on the Parana Delta
- Liminal Dialogues: Landscape at the edges of memory and nostalgia, at Wimbeldon College of Art and Stockholm’s Kulturama College, Sweden
- Of the Earth at Plymouth Arts University. Speaker at Conference on art, design, writing and the environment in conjunction with WALK ON exhibition at Peninsular Gallery, Plymouth
- NEO: Print Prize 2014 at Gallery 22, Market Square, Bolton
- Publish/Curate at TJ Boulting Gallery, 59 Riding House Street, London
- Corporeal Witnessing: the Portrait as Flesh, in The Skin of the Image, Photography and the Contemporary Imaginary Research Hub Symposium, LCC London
- Honoré Project, Balzac’s Print Rooms, rue de Visconti, Paris, curated by Alix Janta, Aaron Morel (Morel Books), TJ Boulting Gallery and Trolley Books
- Bainbridge Open 2014, Embassy Tea Gallery, London
- Shortlisted for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014
- Print Dialogues, solo show at Peltz Gallery, School of Art, Birkbeck College London
- Freshly Pressed, Printmakers Council at Craft Central, Farringdon, London
- MAs and other Postgraduate 2014 Exhibition, Atkinson Gallery, Millfield, Somerset
- 156th International Print Exhibition, The Royal Photographic Society, Museum of Somerset, Taunton Castle, Somerset
- W-CA Contemporary Landscape Photography, at Worcester City Gallery and Museum, selected by Paul Seawright, Dan Holdsworth, Richard Billingham, Pete James, Jem Southam and Ivan & Heather Morison and Fiona Crisp
- S.I.T.E, Chelsea Triangle and the Cookhouse,London
- Clifford Chance Purchase Prize, Clifford Chance Gallery, London (Clifford Chance Purchase 1st Prize Winner)
- Pushing Print at the Pie Factory, Margate Gallery as part of the Festival of Print
- Shortlisted for Contemporary Visions IV at Beers/Lambert Gallery
- MA Printmaking Final Show at Camberwell College of Art, UAL, London-Printmakers Council Award (Distinction)
- 156th International Print Exhibition, The Royal Photographic Society, Stafford, The Civic, Barnsley, and the Michael Heseltine Gallery, Banbury, Oxfordshire
- The London Group Centenary Exhibition – Part 2 at The Cello Factory, Waterloo, London
- Proof at Brixton East curated by Victoria Ahrens, Gill Smith and organized by Janie Kidston
- Bainbridge Print Open at The Embassy Tea Gallery, London
- Lapsus, Celeste Art Prize 2013, curated by Marinella Paderni at Fondazione Studio Marangoni, Florence, Italy, selected by Elena Ceratti, Martin Breindl and Silvio Wolf (1st Prize winner)
- DIS/PLAY II, Camberwell Print Space, Camberwell College of Art, London
- “THOTS” AND, as part of 1234 (A5) …One Year of Drawings, (invited contributor) Neil Ferguson at Mile End Pavillion, London
- The Day Remains_ii, Peltz Room Gallery, Birkbeck, London. Exhibition of 8 artists’ work curated and organized by Victoria Ahrens referencing the fragment, including workshop events, talks as part of Arts Week
- The Day Remains_ii, at the Peltz Room Gallery, Birkbeck School of Art, 43 Gordon Square, London, solo curating project
- The Day Remains, 23 Grafton Road Gallery, London, curated by Victoria Ahrens and organised by Chelly Saenz
- Future Outlook of Printmaking, Gallery Fleur, Kyoto, Japan
- 0.34 miles (0.57 km), Printmaking and Book Arts at Wilson’s Road, CCW, London
- EMIT, at New Gallery, London, Contemporary Printmaking curated by Victoria Ahrens and Misa Gott
- Hung, Drawn and Altered, I and II, at Karin Jannsen Project Space, Hackney and the Copeland Industrial Estate, Peckham, curated by Victoria Ahrens and Giuseppina Esposito
- Proof at Brixton East-Interim show for Camberwell MA Printmaking and Book Arts, curated with Gill Smith and organized by Janie Kidston
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Curating projects as part of Baylors&Diamond with Giuseppina Esposito (a curatorial partnership to curate international artists in London)
2011–2012
- FILTER , Unit 9F Vanguard Court, Peckam Road: Victoria Ahrens, Giuseppina Esposito, Gaia Persico, Andre Penteado, Kim Thornton, Gabriella Sancisi
- Hung, Drawn and Altered I: Drawn In, Karin Jannsen Project Space, Hackney, London: Abbi Torrance, Patric Sandri, Gaia Persico, Jools Johnson, Elisa Sighicelli
- Hung, Drawn and Altered II: Protention, Unit 9, Copeland Industrial Park, PeckhamRye: Max Ruf and Michael Strasser, with a performance by Cie. Agar Agar
Publications
- Laure Tiberghien and Victoria Ahrens: la photographie comme image tangible, Le Corridor de l’Art by Pauline Lisowski: https://www.lecorridordelart.com/2018/11/laure-tiberghien-et-victoria-ahrens-la-photographie-comme-image-tangible
- The Perfect Place, conference paper for Why Remember? Remains, Ruins, Reconstructions, Sarajevo,WARM Festival 2018, https://whyremember2018.wordpress.com/
- The Forensic Turn in Contemporary Printmaking, IMPACT 10, Santander 2018, https://www.impact10.es/bios/s-t-u-v-w-y-z/victoria-ahrens/
- In Conversation, Printmaking Today, Winter edition, December 2017, http://www.cellopress.co.uk/bundle/printmaking-today-volume-26-2017
- Bodies of Water: Photographic Encounters of Resistance, Memory and Ruin in the River Paraná, PHD, Birkbeck College, University of London, 2017, at the British Library
- Contemporary Photography, Bare Hill Publishing, June 2014
- Corporeal Witnessing: the Portrait as Flesh, in The Skin of the Image, Photography and the Contemporary Imaginary Research Hub Symposium, 5th June 2014 2:00- 6:00 pm, LCC Podium Lecture Theatre
- Panel discussion with Professor Paul Coldwell, Dr. Patrizia di Bello and Dr. Gabriel Koureas as part of Print Dialogues, Birkbeck College, University of London
- Perfect Purchase in Printmaking Today, Spring 2014
- Out of the Ruins-performance, publication and projection for IN-Folds event at Camberwell College of Art, London
- The Fragment. the Ruin and Memory– panel discussion, publication at Birkbeck School of Art as part of The Day Remains_ii and Arts Week (together with Altea Grau Vidal and Victoria Arney)
- Memorialization in the Ruins: Narratives of archeology and disappearance in the Southern Cone, Birkbeck College, University of London (2012)
- From the Ruins of the Sublime, the resurgence of the sublime in contemporary art, Camberwell, UAL (2012)
- The Politics of the Image, contextual studies lecture at various UAL sites
- A Room with a Hue, Becky Fallowfield editor and designer, book about artists and their studios, LCC publishing (2010)
- Argentina’s Absolute Witness: the role of DNA, Testimony and Photographs at Argentina’s ex-detention centre ESMA, Birkbeck University, shortlisted for Association of Art Historians Prize (2010)
Work
2013- present
- 2020- present Senior Lecturer MA Photography LCC
- 2019 Dissertation supervisor on BA Photography at LCC
- 2018- present Senior Lecturer on Graduate Diploma Photography and Documentary Practice course at LCC, UAL
- 2018- present Coordinator and Senior Lecturer in Academic Support for BA Fine Art /Design courses across Camberwell College of Art
- 2014- 2018 LCC Academic Support Tutor for all BA and MA Photography and Photojournalism courses
- 2014- present Tutor and visiting artist on MA Printmaking, Camberwell College of Art and Brighton University BA Printmaking course