Victoria Dugger

Victoria Dugger (b. 1991, Columbus, Georgia) is a visual artist based in Athens, Georgia. She earned her BFA from Columbus State University in 2016 and her MFA in Painting from the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in 2022. She made her New York solo debut with Out of Body at Sargent’s Daughters in 2021, followed by Tough Love in 2024.

Dugger’s work explores identity, disability, and Southern heritage through a reimagined Southern Gothic lens. As a disabled Black woman, she navigates themes of isolation, desire, and visibility, blending vulnerability, beauty, and the grotesque. Her figures—exaggerated, anthropomorphic stand-ins for her own body—are adorned with pearls, frosting, and glitter, merging opulence with decay.

Drawing from Southern domestic iconography, Dugger’s work plays with body horror, humor, and excess, challenging ideas of beauty, deformity, and survival. She reflects on the complexities of girlhood and femininity, reclaiming space for bodies often overlooked or misunderstood.

Her work has been featured in Vogue, FRIEZE, Hyperallergic, ARTnews, and The New York Times. She was named a 2023 Georgia Woman to Watch by the National Museum of Women in the Arts and won both the 2023 South Arts Southern Prize and the 2024 Hudgens Prize. Most recently, she was awarded a 2024 MacDowell Fellowship. Dugger is represented by Sargent’s Daughters.

Representation

Sargent’s Daughters