Virginia Overton (b. 1971 in Nashville, Tennessee) lives and works in New York. She creates sculpture and installation by repurposing materials commonly associated with factories, farms, and construction. By means of both subtle and drastic interventions, Overton recontextualizes these ordinary objects, revealing their intrinsic properties which highlight the wear accrued by passing time.

This Fall, a solo presentation of Overton’s work will be held at the Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland. She has had solo exhibitions at Frist Art Museum, Nashville (2022); Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London (2022); Socrates Sculpture Park, New York (2018); Don River Valley Park, Toronto (2018); the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Arizona (2017); the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2016); The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut (2016). Recent group exhibitions include La Biennale di Venezia (2022); Front Triennial, Cleveland (2018).

Overton has installed recent permanent public art installations at the Delta Terminal of the LaGuardia Airport in Queens, New York; The Refinery Building at Domino, Brooklyn, New York; and Hypermaremma, Maremma, Italy. Overton’s work is in the collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson; Speed Art Museum, Louisville; University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland; Kunst Museum Bern, Switzerland; Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland; The San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio and Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland.