About
Victoria Reshetnikov (b. 2002, Queens, NY) is a first-generation Russian-American and New York-based artist working through interdisciplinary methods of making and research that center design, architecture, and miniature in relation to New York City. She graduated from Columbia University with Bachelor's degrees in Art History and Visual Arts in 2024, and has recently completed a research project on the 1964-65 New York World's Fair and completed their first book "Queens: Your Time is Infinite." She is currently a Keyholder Resident at the Lower East Side Printshop. Her work has been featured by the Journal of Art Criticism, Field Projects, and Ratrock Magazine, and has been exhibited in select group shows in New York City, including at A Space, NYC Culture Club, and Moshava Gallery. She is currently Co-Creative Director of IMPULSE Magazine, and has an active curatorial practice.
Contact: vilinda789@gmail.com
Artist's Statement
The world we are looking at is no longer just a set of “real” experiences. In a post-internet framework, perception is skewed, warped, and reconstructed. Simultaneously, the immigrant experience is one of assembly, a locating of oneself in an existing worldly fabric. In Queens– the borough of immigrants– this is felt like nowhere else. I grew up in the borough having always paid attention to its images, and asking: who constructs the world? Where do its images come from? And what myths lie amongst them?
The origin of my interdisciplinary practice is this perception of reality, time, and memory. The highly specific images I collect from packaging, labels, floor tiles, dollar stores, photo albums, mall parking lots, and street signs become a visual vocabulary which I distort and edit digitally. I reenter my images into the world through printmaking, a medium that exists at the boundary of mechanical and handmade. My practice necessitates interweaving a wide set of making practices: I screenprint, draw, 3D print, draft, lasercut, file, embroider, and etch. After housing my images in sculptural containers, my work becomes a window, a perception plane existing between real and digital, identity and queerness, along boundaries of private and public space. They merge the past and present, queerify memory in the heaviness of one, handmade object. I do not make images, necessarily, to be reasoned with. More and more, I am considering my practice as simply a side effect of looking.
CV
Education:
2020/24     B.A. Art History, Columbia University, New York
2020/24     B.A. Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York
Residencies/Fellowships:
2024/25     Keyholder Residency, Lower East Side Printshop, New York
Group Exhibitions:
2024    "Interwoven: An Artist Colony," A Space Gallery, Brooklyn, details
2024.    "Within Reach," NYC Culture Club, New York, checklist, details
2024     Undergraduate Thesis Show, Prentis Hall, Columbia University, New York
2024     "Traces," Field Projects, New York, online
2023     Undergraduate Open Studios, Columbia University, New York
2023     "What the Fuck is Wrong With You?" Useless Art Society, Caffeine Underground, New York, details
2023     "Village in the City," Moshava Gallery, New York 
2023     "Ratrock Featured Artist Show Spring 2023," Columbia University, New York
2022     "Archaeology Final Show," Columbia University, New York, review
2022     "Kitsch and Chaos," Useless Art Society, New York, details
2021     "Romance," Useless Art Society, New York, details
2021     "Burnout," Useless Art Society, details
2021     "Connections," Useless Art Society, details
2018     Scholastic Gold Key Show at Metropolitan Museum, New York, details
Professional Experience:
2023     Studio Assistant, Agnes Denes, New York
2023     Studio Assistant, Leroy Neiman Center for Print Studies, New York
2022/23     Printshop Monitor, Leroy Neiman Center for Print Studies, New York
2021/22     Gallery Assistant, Rafael Gallery, New York
Awards:
2023     1st place in juried exhibition "Village in the City" at Moshava Gallery
2023     Featured artist for Ratrock Magazine
2020     Top Artist Award, Saint Francis Prep
2020     Certificate of Advanced Study in Art
2019     Congressional Art Award
2018     Scholastic Gold Key Award
Curatorial Projects:
2024     "Within Reach," NYC Culture Club, New York, details, checklist
2023     "What the Fuck is Wrong With You?" with the Useless Art Society, Caffeine Underground, Brooklyn, NY, details, press
2023     "Artivism!" at "The CUNY Summit for Peace & Justice," Macaulay Honors College, New York, NY, details
2022     "Kitsch & Chaos" with the Useless Art Society, Dodge Hall at Columbia University, New York, NY, details
2021     "Romance" with the Useless Art Society, Dodge Hall at Columbia University, New York, NY, details
2020     "Burnout" with the Useless Art Society, online
2020     "Connections" with the Useless Art Society, online
Press/Publications:
2024     Journal of Art Criticism, "Sediment"
2023     Journal of Art Criticism, "Conversions," details
2023     Ratrock Magazine, Featured Artist Victoria Reshetnikov, interviewed by Sahai John