• Lot #32: Victoria Sambunaris

  • $4,400.00

  • About the Item

    Victoria Sambunaris

    Untitled, (canyon river view), 2023

    Archival inkjet print

    Edition: 1

    20 x 24 inches

    Courtesy of the artist

     

    Estimated value: $3,500

    Starting bid: $2,500

    Buy it now: $4,400

     

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    Victoria Sambunaris (American, b. 1964)

    Victoria Sambunaris creates largescale photographs that investigate the intersection of the natural and the manmade within the American landscape. The vast and sprawling locations she chooses oscillate between places of total wilderness and environments clearly marked by human political, technological, and industrial intervention. In the language of geography, environment, politics, and culture, Samburnaris’s photographs question traditional and mythic notions of landscape, our place within it, and how and why we shape it the way we do.

    Victoria Sambunaris received a BA from Mount Vernon College (1986) and an MFA from Yale University School of Art (1999). Her work has been widely exhibited and is in the permanent collections of Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Art; and many others. Her monographs—Taxonomy of a Landscape (2013) and Transformation of a Landscape (2024)—were both published by Radius Books. Among many other awards and grants, Sambunaris was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2021.