Victoria Fu and Matt Rich
[Image descriptions: Left: A headshot of Victoria, an Asian-American woman, whose dark hair is pulled back. She wears a green shirt and black jacket. Right: A profile photo of Matt, a White man with brown hair and glasses. He wears a black shirt.]
Victoria Fu (b. Santa Monica, CA) and Matt Rich (b. Boston, MA) began a collaborative studio practice in 2017, alongside their individual practices. Fu received her B.A. in Art from Stanford and M.F.A. from CalArts, and is a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow; Rich received his B.A. in Art from Brown University and M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is a Terra Foundation and Howard Foundation Fellow. Both attended Skowhegan in 2006 and 2010, respectively. This partnership between a moving image artist (Fu) and a painter (Rich) combines their aesthetic sensibilities and working processes, resulting in collaborative works that have been exhibited at venues including the New Visions: Triennial of New Photography at the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Oslo, Norway; The Miller ICA at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; Document, Chicago, IL; Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY; and La Jolla Athenaeum, La Jolla, CA.
They have had recent solo exhibitions at the Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA, where they also collaborated with artist Matt Savitsky and Dancehaus to program two distinct performances activating the objects in exhibition; Station Gallery at the University of Southern California Roski School of Art + Design, Los Angeles, CA, and University Hall Gallery at University of Massachusetts, Boston, where artist Marcus Civin was commissioned to create related performances; The Suburban, Milwaukee, WI; and Angels Gate Cultural Center; San Pedro, CA. In 2017, their collaboration was awarded the San Diego Art Prize. They live and work in San Diego, CA, where they are professors at the University of San Diego.
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