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Virginia Overton, Untitled (nude descending a staircase), 2024, Each: 98 1/2 × 12 in (250 × 30.5 cm) Overall: 98 1/2 × 505 1/2 × 34 1/4 in (250.2 × 1284 × 87 cm)

Virginia Overton (b.1971, Tennessee, United States) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She creates sculpture and installation re-purposing materials commonly associated with factories, farms and construction. By means of both subtle and drastic interventions, Overton re-contextualizes these ordinary objects, revealing their intrinsic properties which highlights the wear accrued by passing time. Many of her works are assembled with industrial materials that have been reconfigured to take the composition of naturalistic forms, such as the concrete shapes (originally purposed for tunnel construction) used to create the Untitled (tulip) sculpture in the 2022 La Biennale di Venezia. During Summer 2022, Overton installed a permanent sculpture installation at the Delta Terminal of the LaGuardia Airport in Queens, New York.

Recent solo exhibitions include those at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville (2022); Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London (2022); Socrates Sculpture Park, New York (2018); Don River Valley Park, Totonto (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); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (2014); the Westphalian Art Association, Münster (2013) and the Kunsthalle Bern (2013). Recent group exhibitions include the Front Triennial, Cleveland (2018); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (2017); and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2016).

Exhibitions

Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: Virginia Overton

Virginia Overton

21 Jun – 9 Aug 2024

Bortolami
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: Virginia Overton, curated by Ugo Rondinone

Virginia Overton, curated by Ugo Rondinone

3 Jun – 28 Oct 2023

Landcraft Garden Foundation, Mattituck, NY
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: Tulip

Tulip

8 Apr – 8 Oct 2023

Hypermaremma, Polveriera Guzman, Orbetello, Italy
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: Junkyard of Dreams

Junkyard of Dreams

13 Jan – 4 Mar 2023

39 Walker
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: Saved

Saved

7 Oct – 31 Dec 2022

Frist Art Museum
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: The Milk of Dreams, 59th Venice Biennale, curated by Cecilia Alemani

The Milk of Dreams, 59th Venice Biennale, curated by Cecilia Alemani

23 Apr – 27 Nov 2022

59th Venice Biennale
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: Richard Aldrich Ei Arakawa Virginia Overton

Richard Aldrich Ei Arakawa Virginia Overton

29 Oct – 18 Dec 2021

The Upstairs at 39 Walker
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: Untitled (chime)

Untitled (chime)

7 Nov – 19 Dec 2020

39 Walker
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: Água Viva

Água Viva

3 May – 15 Jun 2019

39 Walker
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: Built

Built

1 Dec 2018 – 1 Dec 2019

Don River Valley Park, Toronto
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: Built

Built

6 May – 3 Sep 2018

Socrates Sculpture Park
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: Virginia Overton

Virginia Overton

20 Jan – 9 Mar 2018

University of Memphis Fogelman Galleries
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: Why? Why Did You Take My Log?!?!

Why? Why Did You Take My Log?!?!

17 Jun – 1 Oct 2017

MoCA Tucson
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: Michel François, Liz Larner, Tony Lewis and Virginia Overton

Michel François, Liz Larner, Tony Lewis and Virginia Overton

10 Nov – 22 Dec 2016

Bortolami
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: Virginia Overton: Sculpture Gardens

Virginia Overton: Sculpture Gardens

10 Jun – 25 Sep 2016

Whitney Museum of American Art
Featured Image (Installation View) of exhibtion: Virginia Overton

Virginia Overton

23 Aug – 6 Oct 2013

Kunsthalle Bern

Press

Elena Goukassian Virginia Overton creates new public work for Brooklyn’s former Domino Sugar Refinery The Art Newspaper May 2024William Van Meter Sculptor Virginia Overton Reflects on Her Star Turn in 2022, With Major Projects for the Venice Biennale, LaGuardia Airport, and Celine Artnet News Dec 2022Hilarie M. Sheets Ready When You Are, Terminal C is Now An Art Destination The New York Times Jun 2022Tim Griffin Make History Artforum May 2022Christopher Bollen Meet Eight Artists Interview Magazine Apr 2022Sophie Haigney At The Ranch in Montauk, Plenty of Room for Art and Horses The New York Times Jul 2021Max Lakin Montauk Cowboy Artforum Jul 2021Liana Chaplain Solitary pursuits: Virginia Overton’s first solo exhibition in Asia #legend Nov 2020Fabia Schöneich Virginia Overton and the Beauty of Broken Business Frieze Feb 2020Madeleine Seidel Virginia Overton: In and Out of Context Burnaway Oct 2019Dan Fox Virginia Overton’s Water World Frieze Jun 2019Alex Greenberger San Antonio Museum of Art Receives Works from Dallas Collectors, Alex Katz Foundation Artnews Feb 2019Bill Meyer Anne Guthrie / Virginia Overton / François Bonnet — Sculpture Gardens (Future Audio Graphics) Dusted Jan 2019Kat Herriman Virginia Overton Reveals the Natural Beauty of Socrates Sculpture Park Cultured Jun 2018Daniel McDermon 8 Outdoor Art Installations in New York to Get Excited About The New York Times May 2018Scott Indrisek The Artist Who Conjures Beauty from Refuse and Rust Artsy Apr 2018Angela Brown Look, Look Again: Bortolami Group Show Considers the Art of Close, Careful Viewing Artnews Dec 2016Writers at artlead Eight gallery shows to see during London's Frieze week artless Oct 2016Carlotta Loverini Botta After Frieze: le scelte dei curatori Vogue Italia Oct 2016Susan Hodara How to Put a Museum Exhibition Together (Hint: Start With Cash) The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Aug 2016Kevin McGarry 7 Standout Artists From Art Basel Vogue Jun 2016Eileen Kinsella and Hili Perlson Dealers Report Major Sales Throughout Art Basel Artnet Jun 2016Robin Pogrebin At Art Basel, Upbeat Dealers and Brisk Sales The New York Times Jun 2016Writers at ArtReview Virginia Overton, Untitled, 2016 ArtReview Jun 2016Writers at Whitney Museum of American Art Sculpture Gardens Whitney Museum of American Art Jun 2016Sam Moyer The Ice Trick OFF Art Dec 2015Zoë Lescaze A New Art Fair Battles the Auctions With Star Power NY Observer Oct 2014Kara Pickman Virginia Overton at MoCA North Miami Flash Art Sep 2014Christine Gast Virginia Overton The Miami Rail Jun 2014Writers at Mousse Magazine Ice Fishing Mousse Magazine Jun 2014Kevin Conley Virginia Overton's 400 Foot Sculpture Comes to Storm King Town&Country May 2014Brian Boucher Overton’s 488-Foot Tube Opens Storm King Season Art in America Apr 2014Kevin McGarry On View | For Art Basel, Miami’s Swankiest Garage Becomes a Gallery Yet Again T Magazine Dec 2013Jonathan Bell Full throttle: a fleet of supercharged art cars goes on show in Miami Wallpaper* Dec 2013Charlie Schultz The Slant ArtSlant Dec 2013Fabrice Stroun Virginia Overton in conversation with Fabrice Stroun Kunsthalle Bern Aug 2013Roberta Smith Where Minimalist Meets Showy The New York Times Mar 2013Jackie Bischof A New Sculpture Sprawls in Upstate NewYork at Storm King The Wall Street Journal Mar 2013Roberta Smith Virginia Overton, Mitchell-Innes & Nash The New York Times Mar 2013Andrew Russeth Virginia Overton at Mitchell-Innes & Nash GalleriestNY Mar 2013Murtaza Vali Virginia Overton Artforum May 2012Ken Johnson Virginia Overton The New York Times Apr 2012Christopher Bollen Virginia Overton Cooks Up Mischief Interview Mar 2012Murtaza Vali Virginia Overton, Critic's Pick Artforum Mar 2012Tim Saltarelli Virginia Overton Flash Art Mar 2012Writers at Mousse Magazine Virginia Overton at The Power Station, Dallas Mousse Magazine Feb 2012Andrew Russeth Virginia Overton in "Emergency Cheesecake" at Whitney 16 mi. Feb 2012Lauren O’Neill-Butler Jacob Kassay, Robert Morris, and Virginia Overton Artforum Apr 2011Christopher Bollen Virginia Overton Interview Magazine Feb 2011Elena Bordignon Virginia Overton NO Gallery Nov 2010Holland Cotter Today I Made Nothing The New York Times Sep 2010Colby Chamberlain Today I Made Nothing Artforum Aug 2010Erica Orden At Saks, More Than Just Window Dressing Wall Street Journal May 2010