Victoria Sambunaris

Victoria Sambunaris (b. 1964, Lancaster, PA) creates large-scale photographs that document the intersection of the natural and the manmade within the American landscape. She received her BFA from George Washington University (198) and MFA from Yale University (1999) and has held teaching positions at Yale in the Schools of Art and Architecture. Her work has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the U.S. and abroad. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2021), Julius Shulman Excellence in Photography Award (2020), Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship (2010), and Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2010). Her work is held in numerous collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Buffalo AKG Museum, NY; Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; and National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. In 2019, Sambunaris was commisioned by Dia Art Foundation to photograph Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty and Sun Tunnels by Nancy Holt. Her first monograph, Taxonomy of a Landscape, was published by Radius Books in 2013. She is represented by Yancey Richardson Gallery in NY.