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Victoria Wagner
Occidental, CA
info@victoriawagner.com
Education
2001 MFA, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1993 BA, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
Awards , Invitations, Residencies
2022 Google BayView Campus Artist-in-Residence, Elevator Bank Project, Mountain View, CA
2021 Buffalo Creek Art Center, Artist-in-Residence, Public Art Sculpture Gardens, Gardnerville, NV
Grant Award, Center for Cultural Innovation, San Francisco, CA
2018 Local Language Artist-in-Residence, Oakland, CA
2017 Kala Parent Artist Residency Award, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2014 Visiting Artist Lecture, Ohlone College, Fremont, CA
2013 Creative Capacity Fund Grant
2013 Chalk Hill Artist Residency, Healdsburg, CA
'07-15 Counseling Services presentation/collaboration, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
2008 Painting Lecture, Mills College, Oakland, CA
2005 Fleishhacker Foundation, Eureka Fellowship, Nominee
2001 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Ron Nagle, Mills College
2000 Visiting Artist Lecture, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
2000 Mini Research Grant, Mills College
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Maybaum Gallery, (upcoming), San Francisco, CA
2020 Maybaum Gallery, Everglow, San Francisco, CA
2019 Hammerfriar Gallery, on a clear day, we can be forever…, Healdsburg, CA
Miracle Plum, Baby, Let’s Get Out of Here and Build a Love Shack on the Moon, Santa Rosa, CA
2018 Local Language, our vision will be better on the moon, Oakland, CA
2017 Gallery Lulo, Victoria Wagner, Healdsburg, CA
2016 Neon Raspberry Art House, Believer, Occidental, CA
2015 Kitty Hawk Gallery, Logic of the Ordinary, Sebastopol, CA
2014 Dose Projects, wonder the passing through, Brooklyn, New York
Louie Meager Museum, Ohlone College, Interference at the edge of the By and By, Fremont, CA
Studio Blomster, eclipsed days and compressed dimension, Guerneville, CA
2013 Stark Tasting Room, victoria wagner, Healdsburg, CA
2012 Marion and Rose’s Workshop, our mother the mountain, Oakland, CA
2010 Hyde Street Gallery, extramundane; the journey of the shades, San Francisco, CA
2009 Four Barrel, when the past has passed, it will be silver, San Francisco, CA
Blankspace Gallery, formations, Oakland (with Erik Parra)
2008 Don Soker Contemporary, the remains, San Francisc
2004 Quicksilver Mine, topographies of torque and tangent, Forestville, CA
2000 Andrea Schwartz, untitled, San Francisco
Group Exhibitions
2022 Melhop Gallery, NO-SUCH-PLACE, Zephyr Cove, NV
Melhop Gallery, I Want Candy, Zephyr Cove, NV
NIAD Art Center, relics for the future, Richmond, CA (curated by Jessica Snow)
2019 Angela Meleca Gallery, In Flux, Columbus, OH (curated by Michael Goodson)
Bedford Gallery, Altered States, Walnut Creek, CA
Chandra Cerrito Gallery, untitled (Mel Prest Commission Reception), Oakland, CA
The Mill, one day art/performance event sponsored by Roving Venue, Healdsburg, CA
Sarah Shepard Gallery, Midsummer Edit: A Group Show, Larkspur, CA
Santa Rosa Junior College Art Gallery, Drawing Show, Santa Rosa, CA
2018 Kala Art Institute, Artists’ Annual, Berkeley, CA
Hammerfriar Gallery, 428collective, Healdsburg, CA
Art Works Gallery, Cedar City, Utah
2017 Orie Gallery, Shelves II, Tokyo, Japan
Palo Alto Art Center, Spectral Hues, Palo Alto, CA
Santa Rosa Junior College Art Gallery, Forgotten Words, Santa Rosa, CA
2016 Berkeley Art Center ,I Look for Clues in Your Dreams, Berkeley, CA
Ampersand International Arts, Palette, San Francisco, CA
2015 College Avenue Galleries, Rock Silica Soapbox, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, A Special Curatorial Project with Rirkrit Tiravanija: The Way Things Go, San Francisco, CA
Fort Mason Center, Parking Lot Art Fair, curated by Jenny Sharaf, San Francisco, CA
2014 Private Residence, “Mercado Sagrado”, curated by The Radder, Topanga, CA
West Coast Craft, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco. CA
2013 Marin Community Foundation, Transmissions, Novato, CA
Warnecke Ranch, Residency Open House, Healdsburg, CA
Perdita Productions, Falling Dark, Geyserville, CA *catalog
Southern Exposure, Monster Drawing Rally San Francisco, CA
Issues Magazine Shop, Tear it Out, Oakland
2012 Studio 428, Product 2, Healdsburg, CA
2011 Root Division, Introductions, San Francisco
2010 Southern Exposure, composer/performer, Music from Mountaintops by Michelle Blade
2009 Southern Exposure, Passive/Aggressive, San Francisco
Public Art/Urban Intervention Day, SOEX sponsored
the LAB, PastForward, 25th Anniversary Exhibition, San Francisco
Michael Rosenthal Gallery, Mixed Metaphors and Obsessive Compulsive Behavior, San Francisco
2008 Headlands Center for the Arts, Close Calls, Sausalito
2007 DiRosa Art and Nature Preserve, 3x3, Napa
Don Soker Contemporary, Summer Group Show, San Francisco
2006 Jay/Addington Gallery, From Nature, Chicago
Don Soker Contemporary, Spring/Summer Group Show
Richmond Art Center, microcosm, Richmond, CA *catalog
2005 Don Soker Contemporary Art, Winter Group Show
Julie Baker Fine Art, In the Garden, Grass Valley, CA
Brewery Project Gallery, microcosm, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Quicksilver Mine, topographies of torque and tangent, Forestville, CA
Sonoma County Museum, Botany 12, Santa Rosa, CA
A Street Gallery, Twelve Painters, Twelve Paintings,Santa Rosa
Bibliography (more articles linked under “Words” tab)
2017 American Craft Magazine, "Victoria Wagner, Good Vibrations", February/March 2017, pps. 38-41
2016 Colossal
Cur v e Mag a z i n e , “ I n t e l l i g e n c e : W o o d t o J e w e l s ”
Llamas Valley-Gemstone Woodrocks
2015 Of Cult and Culture
2013 Elliptical Goodkind:
2012 Petals and Bones
2008 ArtSlant, Geologic Remains
2007 Art Business
2004 New American Paintings, issue 43
Public Collections
United States Embassy, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Ashiya Baycourt Club, Tokyo, Japan
Shri Ninai Enterprises, Raigad, India
Capital One Innovation Labs, San Francisco, CA
Google BayView Campus, Mountain View, CA
Buffalo Creek Sculpture Park, Gardnerville, NV
M I Star Mineral Water, Dubai, UAE
Viewing Programs
The Drawing Center, Viewing Program, New York, NY
BayVan Artist Registry, Oakland, CA