Victoria Cantons on Clubhouse

Bio

Multidisciplinary Artist / Painter / Photographer / Occasional Curator
Social Animal / Renaissance woman

London, UK. British-Spanish/French/Russian Jew

MFA Painting, Slade School of Art, 2021
Studio Programme, Turps Art School, 2018
BA Painting, Wimbledon College of Arts, 2017

Felix Slade Scholarship, 2018

Sex, Death & Politics. LGBTQ. Foodie. Traveller.

Most recently:
Solo
COMING SOON - Kunstverein Association for Contemporary Art, Dresden (2023)
Opens Fri 12th May - Dance! In The Warmer Season, Guts Gallery, London
Opens Thurs 20th April - Nothing is Absolute, Flowers Gallery, London
People trust people who look like them, Flowers Gallery (2022)

Group
COMING SOON - Show title tbc, Mattia Pozzoni, Milan
Opens Thurs 27th April - Positions, Alma Pearl, London
(It’s My Party) I Can Cry If I Want To, Guts Gallery, London, 2023
Small is Beautiful 40th edition, Flowers Gallery, London, 2022
Combat Stress Charity, Postcard Auction, Bankside Gallery, London and Glasgow Art Club, Glasgow, 2022
New Romantics, Phillips x The Artist Room, 2022
Like There is A Hope…, Hospital Rooms x Hauser & Wirth, 2022

Featured in the Financial Times magazine & How to Spend It, Elephant Magazine, Telegraph & the Sunday Times UK

My work is informed by a multicultural upbringing and has autobiographical, confessional and political undercurrents, which question the limitations and stigma on personal freedom and individuals’ boundaries. The works explore ideas about time, history and reality; sociopolitical ideas and contemporary imagery are juxtaposed with reappropriated elements from the Old Masters. 
In these works, I aim to recontextualise the female gaze in historical paintings made by male artists. I do not categorise myself as a transgender or feminist artist however all of these elements filter into the development of my art exploring identity and representation.