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.
Exhibitions

Arancia e erba cedrina
19 Oct 2024 – 26 Jan 2025
LAVINIA, Loggia dei Vini, Villa Borghese, Rome

Virginia Overton
21 Jun – 9 Aug 2024
Bortolami

Virginia Overton, curated by Ugo Rondinone
3 Jun – 28 Oct 2023
Landcraft Garden Foundation, Mattituck, NY

Tulip
8 Apr – 8 Oct 2023
Hypermaremma, Polveriera Guzman, Orbetello, Italy

Junkyard of Dreams
13 Jan – 4 Mar 2023
39 Walker

Saved
7 Oct – 31 Dec 2022
Frist Art Museum

The Milk of Dreams, 59th Venice Biennale, curated by Cecilia Alemani
23 Apr – 27 Nov 2022
59th Venice Biennale

Richard Aldrich Ei Arakawa Virginia Overton
29 Oct – 18 Dec 2021
The Upstairs at 39 Walker

Untitled (chime)
7 Nov – 19 Dec 2020
39 Walker

Água Viva
3 May – 15 Jun 2019
39 Walker

Built
1 Dec 2018 – 1 Dec 2019
Don River Valley Park, Toronto

Built
6 May – 3 Sep 2018
Socrates Sculpture Park

Virginia Overton
20 Jan – 9 Mar 2018
University of Memphis Fogelman Galleries

Why? Why Did You Take My Log?!?!
17 Jun – 1 Oct 2017
MoCA Tucson

Michel François, Liz Larner, Tony Lewis and Virginia Overton
10 Nov – 22 Dec 2016
Bortolami

Virginia Overton: Sculpture Gardens
10 Jun – 25 Sep 2016
Whitney Museum of American Art
