The Photography Show, presented by AIPAD
March 31 – April 2, 2023
Untitled, (rider), Joshua Tree, California, 2021. Chromogenic print, 39 x 55 inches.
Untitled, (jump), Glamis, CA, 2020. Chromogenic print, 39 x 55 inches.
Victoria Sambunaris, Untitled, Imperial Sand Dunes at All American Canal, Buttercup Valley, CA, 2021. Chromogenic print, 39 x 55 inches.
Untitled, (red car), Searles Valley, CA, 2020. Chromogenic print, 39 x 55 inches.
Untitled, (Evaporation pool), Moab, Utah, 2016. Chromogenic print, 39 x 55 inches.
Untitled, (Container train), south of Delta, Utah, 2017. Chromogenic print, 39 x 55 inches.
Untitled, (Power plant), Huntington, Utah, 2017. Chromogenic print, 39 x 55 inches.
Untitled (train crossing Great Salt Lake), Utah, 2016, 39 x 55 or 55 x 75 inch chromogenic print
Untitled (Oil Chemical Tanker Overseas Tampa, USA), Houston Ship Channel, Texas, 2015, 17 x 22 or 27 x 40 inch chromogenic print
Untitled (Crude Oil Tanker, Eagle Stealth, Marshall Is.), Houston Ship Channel, Texas, 2016. 39 x 55 or 55 x 78 inch chromogenic Print.
Untitled (Train Tracks), Port Lavaca, Texas, 2015, 39 x 55 inch or 55 x 75 inch chromogenic print
Untitled (The Bowl In Bahia Grande) Brownsville, TX, 2015, 2 30 x 42 inch chromogenic prints
Untitled (Train Crossing Estuarial Corridor - 2), Virginia Point, Texas, 2015. 39 x 55 or 55 x 78 inch chromogenic Print.
Untitled (Intracoastal Waterway with Red Barge), Bolivar Peninsula, Texas, 2015. 39 x 55 or 55 x 78 inch chromogenic Print.
Untitled (Parallel cars) near Cotulla, Texas, 2012, 39 x 55 or 55 x 76 inch chromogenic print
Untitled (Night Train), Galveston, Texas, 2015, 39 x 55 or 55 x 75 inch chromogenic print
Untitled (Border view south from grasslands), Hereford, Arizona, 2010, 39 x 55 or 55 x 77 inch chromogenic print
Untitled (Dunes) near El Centro, California, 2010, 39 x 55 or 55 x 75 inch chromogenic print
Untitled (Train from Cristo Rey), Sunland Park, New Mexico, 2010, 39 x 55 or 55 x 77 inch chromogenic print
Untitled (Santa Elena Canyon), Texas, 2010, 39 x 55 or 55 x 77 inch chromogenic print
Untitled (Boquillas del Carmen), Big Bend National Park, 2009, 2 39 x 55 inch chromogenic prints
Untitled (Talc mine with truck), Cameron, Montana, 2009, 39 x 55 or 55 x 77 inch chromogenic print
Untitled, Red Canyon, near Lander, Wyoming, 2009, 39 x 55 inch or 55 x 77 inch chromogenic print.
Untitled, Carlin, Nevada, 2007, 39 x 55 inch or 55 x 75 inch chromogenic print
Untitled, Wendover, Utah, 2007, 39 x 55 or 55 x 75 inch chromogenic print
Untitled, Gillette, Wyoming, 2007, 39 x 55 or 55 x 75 inch chromogenic print
Untitled, Hercules Gap, 2004, 39 x 55 inch or 55 x 75 inch chromogenic print
Untitled, Luray, Virginia, 2006, 39 x 55 inch or 55 x 77 inch chromogenic print
Untitled, Haleakala Crater, Hawaii, 2005, 39 x 55 inch or 55 x 75 inch chromogenic print.
Untitled, Potash Mine, Wendover, Utah, 2004, 39 x 55 inch or 55 x 75 inch chromogenic print.
Untitled, Blue trucks, 2003, 39 x 55 inch or 55 x 75 inch chromogenic print.
Untitled, White building with bush, Laredo, Texas, 2003, 39 x 55 inch or 55 x 75 inch chromogenic print
Untitled, Red containers stacked, Newark, New Jersey, 2001, 39 x 55 inch or 55 x 75 inch chromogenic print.
Victoria Sambunaris creates large-scale photographs that document the intersection of the natural and the manmade within the American landscape. Each year, Sambunaris embarks upon a lengthy journey on the road, using a large format, five-by-seven wooden field camera to document what she encounters. She aims to capture the way in which humans inhabit the landscape, and to highlight the need to consider the long-term impact of the continual cultivation and development of the land.
Combining in-depth planning and research with a laborious mode of shooting and developing, sometimes waiting days for the right conditions, Sambunaris’s photographs communicate a deeply layered sense of place. From 2009 to 2011, Sambunaris covered the 2,000 mile extent of the border between the United States and Mexico, travelling from Brownsville, Texas to San Diego, California and framing the expansive landscapes within her photographs in an attempt to comprehend the essence of the border culture and the divided landscape. For her most recent project, Sambunaris has been working in South Texas photographing the geological and ecological implications of the energy industry in this area.
Victoria Sambunaris was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1964, and currently lives and works in New York. She received a BA from Mount Vernon College in 1986 and an MFA from Yale University School of Art in 1999. She has held teaching positions at Yale University and Sarah Lawrence College, and is currently Guest Critic at Yale School of Architecture.
Her work has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States including National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; and New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe. Her work can be seen in numerous collections throughout the United States, including those of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Sambunaris has received numerous awards, including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2021); Charles Red Fellowship in Western American Studies, Brigham Young University (2015); Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship (2010); and the Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2010). A monograph of her work, Taxonomy of a Landscape: Victoria Sambunaris, was published by Radius Books in 2013.
Winter 2021
We are pleased to share that Victoria Sambunaris is the recipient of the 2021 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for photography.
On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale, September 10, 2021 - January 9, 2022
The exhibition showcases and celebrates the remarkable achievements of an impressive roster of women artists who have graduated from Yale University. Presented on the occasion of two major milestones—the 50th anniversary of coeducation at Yale College and the 150th anniversary of the first women students at the University, who came to study at the Yale School of the Fine Arts when it opened in 1869—the exhibition features works drawn entirely from the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery that span a variety of media, such as paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, photography, and video.
Victoria Sambunaris is the 2020 recipient of the Julius Shulman Institute’s Award for Excellence in Photography. The award is given to a photographer who honors Shulman's legacy and challenges the way that we look at space. Previous awardees include Iwan Baan (2010), Richard Barnes (2011), Pedro E. Guerrero (2012), Catherine Opie (2013), Grant Mudford (2014), and Hélène Binet (2015).
Far Out: The West Re-Seen, Photography of Victoria Sambunaris
October 30, 2020 - May 1, 2021
This landmark exhibition brings together more than forty large-scale photographs by Victoria Sambunaris, and focuses on images made throughout Utah and the American West. In addition, the artist has curated a selection of works from the museum's permanent collection that will be shown alongside her photographs.
December 13, 2018 – February 24, 2019
Ansel Adams in Our Time
“Ansel Adams in Our Time” brings Adams forward in time, juxtaposing his work with that of contemporary artists such as Mark Klett (born 1962), Trevor Paglen (born 1974), Catherine Opie (born 1961), Abelardo Morell (born 1948), Victoria Sambunaris (born 1964), and Binh Danh (born 1977). The more than 20 present-day photographers in the exhibition have not only been drawn to some of the same locations, but also engaged with many of the themes central to Adams’ legacy: desert and wilderness spaces, Native Americans and the Southwest, and broader issues affecting the environment: logging, mining, drought and fire, booms and busts, development, and urban sprawl.
October 18, 2018 – February 17, 2019
Civilization: The Way We Live Now
This large scale exhibition comprises over 300 works, adopting different angles to examine collective human life in the society of the 21st century. A collaboration between MMCA and the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, with curators William E. Ewing and Holly Rousell, the exhibition will first be presented at MMCA then to the world as it travels through several different countries.
| Shifting Baselines: Texas Gulf Coast Shifting Baselines: Texas Gulf Coast is a studied visual consideration of the culture, environment, and history of the Texas Gulf coast. Viewers are invited to consider their own notions and questions about landscape, our place within it, and the individual and collective involvement in shaping and stewarding it the way we do. GROUP SHOWS "Island Time: Galveston Artist Residency - The First Four Years" Contemporary Art Museum Houston, November 21, 2015 - February 14, 2016 |
Work by Victoria Sambunaris is included in the exhibition Desert Serenade: Drones, Fences, Cacti, Test Sites, Craters and Serapes, on view through August 31 at the Lannan Foundation Gallery in Santa Fe, NM. The group exhibition features work by Sambunaris, Trevor Paglen, James Turrell, Renate Aller, Subhanker Banerjee, Tom Miller, and Emi Winter. The gallery will host an artist's reception on Saturday, August 9 from 5-7pm.
Victoria Sambunaris: Taxonomy of a Landscape is on view currently at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago through March 31, 2013. A public reception with the artist will be held at the museum on February 7 from 5-7pm. The exhibition originated at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY and is generously supported by the Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM.
Work by Victoria Sambunaris will feature in the upcoming exhibition, Photography in Mexico: Selected Works from the Collections of SFMOMA and Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, on display at SFMOMA from March 10 – July 8. Work from Sambunaris' acclaimed series The Border is included in the exhibition, which explores the rich and diverse tradition of Mexican and international photographers working in Mexico since the 1920s.
Victoria Sambunaris' first solo exhibition at a major American museum opened on Friday, October 21 at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY. Presented in conjunction with the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe, NM, the exhibition, Taxonomy of a Landscape, features over forty works from the artist's wide-ranging examination of the American landscape at the intersection of civilization, geology and natural history. The exhibition also includes a comprehensive archival installation recording the artist's travels.
Gallery artists Olivo Barbieri, Mitch Epstein, and Victoria Sambunaris are included in The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art, opening September 24th and running through January 8, 2012.
Gallery artists Mitch Epstein, David Hilliard, Lisa Kereszi, Andrew Moore, Alex Prager, and Victoria Sambunaris are all included in People Power Places: Reframing the American Landscape, a group exhibition at Davidson College, North Carolina, on view through March 6, 2011.
Victoria Sambunaris has been named a recipient of two major artist grants from Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation and Aaron Siskind Foundation.
For more information about the Anonymous Was A Woman Awards, click here, and the Aaron Siskind Foundation, click here.
Opening September 8, 2009, the Hermes Foundation Gallery at 63rd and Madison, NYC will present Terra Firma, an exhibition of Vicky Sambunaris's recent work exploring geologic hot spots in the American West. This summer Sambunaris was also the subject of solo exhibition an the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe, NM.
Victoria Sambunaris and Christian Patterson have been nominated for the 2009 Baum Award for Emerging American Photographer. Lisa Kereszi was the 2005 recipient.
