ABOUT
Victoria Dugger (b. 1991) earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Columbus State University in 2016 with a focus in painting and sculpture. She is currently a MFA Candidate at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. Since graduating Dugger has exhibited in Georgia, Pennsylvania, District of Columbia, Virginia and New York. She was recently featured in New American Paintings South Edition 142 and in 2016 was chosen as the First Prize winner in the VSA Emerging Young Artists Award and the work is currently on national tour with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
My practice focuses on art’s potential to provoke empathic responses. Concerning self- concept as defined by the expression and experience of expectation, I question beliefs and attitudes toward one’s own purpose in relation to society and normality. My interests center around race, gender, and disability. Are there black disabled women in the future? Through this question I examine existence as a right that is fundamental to all.
My research explores where the future, capitalism and technology meet on the body via beauty and medicine. Disability studies’ s relationship to trans-humanism and it’s foundation in feminist theory is of particular interest to me. I explore these theoretical conjunctions through drawings and sculptures that operate as mnemonic objects in my fictional narratives. I was and still am inspired collective memetic expressions of disabled black-female physicality
My work advocates for the disabled body, and its intersectionality of vulnerability and function, and seeks to contextualize social marginalization with contemporary cultural construction. My practice continues to examine existence as a right that is fundamental to all.
