VIRGINIA WAGNER

Virginia Wagner is a Brooklyn, NY based artist and writer whose work is focused on the conflict between human progress and the natural world. Her paintings look at the impact of a changing climate on human systems as well as human’s impact on ecosystems. Wagner is interested in documenting the conflicts of our time and asking what can be built from them.

Wagner received her BA from Oberlin College in Studio Art and Creative Writing and her MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art’s Hoffberger School of Painting. She has been granted residencies at Brush Creek (WY), Byrdcliffe with a Milton and Sally Avery Fellowship (NY), VCCA (VA), the Edward Albee Foundation (NY), Jentel Foundation (WY), Ucross (WY), Vermont Studio Center (VT), and Yale Norfolk (CT), and received the 2016 Lotos Prize in Painting.

Virginia Wagner’s portrait series has been featured on BBC Radio’s The Cultural Frontline and in a short documentary entitled The Gender Line, which premiered at the Williamsburg Independent Film Festival. Wagner is Co-Founder of the online journal Painters on Paintings and currently teaches hybrid visual art and creative writing courses at Pratt Institute. Her work has been exhibited in the U.S., is held in international private collections and has been featured in publications including Hyperallergic, the New York Times, the Creators Project and The Washington Post.