Victoria Cantons British, b. 1969
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The Heart is Not Just an Organ, 2020 -
Healing, 2019
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In Times of Doubt I Turn to You, 2019
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On the images of gold, on the weapons of the warriors and the crown of the king, I write your name (Achilles’ shield), 2019
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How you live your life is your business, just remember, our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once, And before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your body, there comes a point when no one looks at it, much less wants to come near i, 2018
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What is going on right now? That is the question. And what can you do Right Now to make Now better? Make each Now better and the future will take care of itself, while the past will not matter., 2018
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When our lives are knocked off-course, we imagine everything in them is lost, it is only the start of something new and good., 2018
Victoria Cantons (b. 1969, London, UK) is a BA Painting graduate of Wimbledon College of Arts (2017) and Turps Art School (2018). Due to coronavirus related interruptions, completing her MFA in Painting at Slade School of Fine Art has been delayed to 2021. She received the Felix Slade Scholarship in 2018. Cantons studied Drama for The Stage and Screen at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA South) (1995-1997). Most recently she initiated and curated the Slade Masters Showcase at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery (2020) and went on to curate MA/MFA Slade graduates in London Grads Now. at Saatchi Gallery (2020).
Cantons is a cross-disciplinary artist and curator with primarily a drawing and painting practice that can be best described as figurative and colourist with political undercurrents. Her work is informed by a multinational and multicultural upbringing and a background in photography and theatre as well as the fact that she is also transgendered. Cantons lives and works in London.
Recent group exhibitions include “the tales we tell ourselves”, Purslane Gallery, (2020); “TwentyTwenty Women”, Artistellar Gallery (2020); “RA Summer (Winter) Show”, Royal Academy of Art (2020); “A Rudimentary Education”, Art Lacuna (2020); “London Grads Now.”, Saatchi Gallery (2020); “Slade Graduate Fine Art Showcase”, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery (2020); “Begin Again”, Guts Gallery (2020); “Tomorrow: London”, White Cube Gallery (2020); “Trans-Identity: Body, Soul and Time”, NoSpace Gallery (2020); “When Shit Hits the Fan”, Guts Gallery (2020); “Little Originals”, Dock Street Studios (2019); “Annual Open”, The South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts (2019); “Beautiful China, Beautiful World”, China Pictorial & UK-China Photography Association (2019); “On the Mountain We Stay”, NoSpace Gallery (2019); “Open”, AIR Gallery (2019); “RA Summer Show”, Royal Academy (2019) and “Change”, Hundred Years Gallery (2019).
Solo Exhibitions
2020 PV 10th December It's 2020 FFS: Champagne tastes on beer money, Guts Gallery, London
2018 Give Me Your Hand So That I May Not Be Alone, 48 Woodstock Road, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 the tales we tell ourselves, Purslane Gallery, online
TwentyTwenty Women, Artistellar Gallery, Online
A Rudimentary Education, Art Lacuna, London
RA Summer (Winter) Show, Royal Academy of Art, London (C)
LONDON GRADS NOW., Saatchi Gallery, London
RCA x Slade Graduate Fine Art Showcase, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery,
London
Begin Again, Guts Gallery, London (C)
Tomorrow: London, White Cube Gallery, London
Trans-Identity: Body, Soul and Time, NoSpace Organisation, online show via instagram & NoSpace WeChat Official
When Shit Hits the Fan, Guts Gallery, London (C)
2019 Little Originals exhibition, Dock Street Studios, Dundee
Annual Open Exhibition 2019, The South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts @ Exeter Castle, Devon
Beautiful China, Beautiful World: Golden Era of China-UK, China Pictorial
& UK-China
Photography Association @ Central Hall Westminster, London and Charing
Cross Library, London
On the Mountain We Stay, supported by No Space in Zichuan district, Zibo
city, Shandong province, China
AIR Open 2019, AIR Gallery, Manchester
RA Summer Show, Royal Academy, London (C)
Change, Hundred Years Gallery, London
Micro, AIR Gallery, Manchester
TROPE, Serf, Leeds
LOVE, Slade School of Art (UCL), London
Pulling Teeth, ASC Gallery, London
2018 Turps Studio Painters, Paul Stolper, London (C)
Set 24, The Art Academy, London
CHAIN, The Library of China University of Mining & Technology, Beijing (C)
24th edition of Artist of the day: Day Nine, Flowers Gallery, London
Beijing Summer Exhibition 18, NL Gallery, Beijing
Picnic, Subsidiary Projects, London
2017 Bring me my cloak, LVP House, London
Glutted: 7 Artists 24 Hours, 392 Grove Green Road, London
Wimbledon College Undergraduate Summer Show, UAL, London (C)
Landscapes of the Mind & Earth, Conference Centre, St Pancras Hospital,
London
Currents of Identity, The Crypt Gallery, St Pancras Church, London
To Be Continued…Gallery of the College of Arts, Huabei University of
Science & Technology Tangshan, China (C)
109 Nails, Copeland Park, London
8th Loudest Whispers, Conference Centre, St Pancras Hospital, London
2016 Exhibit Here Summer Exhibition, Menier Gallery, London
It's A Pleasure, 83 Greyhound Lane, London
2015 Interrogating The Soul, SAFEHOUSE 1, London
Contemporary Art, Forme Trinity @ This Is Art Gallery, London
2014 Summer Edit, Moreton Gallery, Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire
2013 Zhe:[noun} Undefined, Soho Theatre, London
4th Loudest Whispers, Conference Centre, St Pancras Hospital, London