Victoria Roth

Victoria Roth’s biomorphic abstract paintings sit on the edge of recognition—a meaty shape expands like a muscle, a gnarled mass morphs into a heart, that bulbous symbol. Through imagined and high-keyed compositions, Roth explores ideas of queer abstraction and desire as embedded in bodily forms that appear to constantly transform. The notion of becoming—as a quandary, a search, and an expansive proposition—animates her conceptual and material investigations. While her paintings are loud and visceral, they resonate on a psychological level, revealing themselves over time. 

Roth has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including in solo exhibitions at Emanuela Campoli, Paris; Broadway Gallery, NY; Brennan & Griffin, NY; and fAN Kunstverein, Vienna. She has participated in group exhibitions at Marinaro Gallery, NY; Kate Werble, NY; Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid; Hesse Flatow, NY; Hales Gallery, NY; Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn; Galleria Anna Marra, Rome; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; The Pit, LA; and Lulu, Mexico City, among others. Most recently, she co-curated the group exhibition No Point in Making Myself Comfortable at Springs Projects in New York. 

Roth grew up in Paris and received her MFA from Columbia University in 2014 and a BA in History of Art & Architecture and Visual Art from Brown University in 2008. She is a recent recipient of the Hedda Stern Fellowship at The Church Residency and of the Irving Sandler Prize from the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program. She has taught painting and drawing at Purchase College, Brooklyn College, and Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.