Victoria Fu and Byron Kim, Suns, 2016

Thursday, April 11, 2024

6 PM Reception; 6:30 PM Lecture

Please join us for an artist talk by San Diego–based visual artist Victoria Fu. Working across multiple disciplines, her artwork incorporates analog and digital textures in installations that layer virtual and actual spaces. On Thursday, April 11, Fu will share a special presentation on her career, process, recent projects, and 2016 mural for Murals of La Jolla, Suns, created in collaboration with Byron Kim. The reception will take place at 6 p.m., followed by a lecture at 6:30 p.m. 

Fu was born in Santa Monica, California. She received her MFA from CalArts, MA in art history/museum studies from University of Southern California, and BA from Stanford University. She attended the Whitney Independent Study Program and was in residence at Skowhegan. Fu has received grants from Art Matters, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, and Harpo Foundation and is a Guggenheim Fellow. Her artwork is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Pérez Art Museum, Miami, Florida; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts ; and Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. She lives and works in San Diego, California, where she is Associate Professor of Art at the University of San Diego. 

Mural Members and Makers attend FREE and will receive an email to RSVP for the lecture.

The lecture will be in person at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library. There are no physical tickets for this event. Your name will be on an attendee list at the front door. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. Seating is first-come; first-served. This event will be presented in compliance with State of California and County of San Diego health regulations as applicable at the time of the lecture.