cv – Victoria Ahrens

Education

2011-17 PHD in Photography Practice/ Theory (AHRC studentship award), Birkbeck College, UL
2011-13 M.A. Printmaking (Distinction), Camberwell College of Art, UAL
2008-10 M.A. Art History and Contemporary Theory (Distinction), Birkbeck College, UL
2006-7 PGCE (PCET) for Art and Design, Greenwhich Maritime University
2003-6 B.A 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 2020:

Ground Resist (solo show) IMPACT 11, Hong Kong Open Print (HKOP) Sept 2021
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Woolwich London- November 2020 (main installation award)
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

2019

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
156^th 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)
156^th 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

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

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