1972
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Lives and works in Miami, Florida
EDUCATION
1994
Yale University Norfolk Summer School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut
1996
Florida International University, Miami, Florida
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1997
Praxis International Art, Mexico City, Mexico, September 11–October 10
1998
Cultural Resource Center, Miami, Florida, September 8–October 14
1999
The Fine Arts Gallery at Broward Community College, Weston, Florida, January 4–January 30
2000
Elite Fine Art, Miami, Florida, September 1–September 29
2002
Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York, September 17–October 12
2004
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California, March 20–April 17
Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York, January 8–February 7
2005–2006
On Display, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida, July 12, 2005–January 22, 2006
2006
Victoria Gitman: Paintings and Drawings, David Nolan Gallery, New York, New York, September 9–October 14
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California, October 21–November 25
2007
Victoria Gitman: “On Display”, Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, October 9–October 27
2008
Looking Closely: Victoria Gitman’s Paintings and Drawings, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada, February 2–April 27
2009
Victoria Gitman, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California, September 12–October 24
2010
Ars Libri 11: Victoria Gitman, The Cartin Collection @ Ars Libri, Boston, Massachusetts, January-- 8–March 1
2011–2012
Victoria Gitman: On Display, David Nolan Gallery, New York, New York, December 10, 2011--–January 21, 2012
2014
Victoria Gitman, 8/Art Gallery/Tomio Koyama, Tokyo, Japan, March 19–April 14
2015
Victoria Gitman, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, New York, January 8–February 14
Victoria Gitman: Desiring Eye, Perez Art Museum, Miami, Florida, February 26–May 31
2018
Victoria Gitman: Taktisch, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, New York, January 11–February 17
2020
Victoria Gitman: Five Paintings, François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, California, February 15–March 29
2022
Everything is Surface: Twenty Years of Painting, François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, California, April 2–May 7
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1996
Three Artists, Praxis International Art, Mexico City, Mexico, November 7–December 31
1998
Hortt 40, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
1999
New Files, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, June 10--–September 19
ReVision, Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, Pennsylvania, November 3--–December 22
2000
Figurative Vignettes, The Art Center, Saint Petersburg, Florida, March 12--–June 30
Florida Painting: Spectrum of Expression, Museum of Art, Tallahassee, Florida, March 31--–May 24
Reinventing Tradition, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Florida, April 7--–May 6
Figurings, Ritter Art Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, September 16--–November 18
2002–2003
Amigos, The World Arts Building, Miami, Florida, December 2002--–January 2003
2003
Art a Century Apart: 1903 and 2003, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi, March 22--–May 4
Light As Air, Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York, July 7--–August 22
2004
Transitory Patterns, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, October 15--–December 19, 2004; Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, March 11--–June 19; DeLand Museum of Art, DeLand, Florida, September 23--–November 20, 2005; University of West Florida Art Gallery, Pensacola, Florida, January 13--–February 3, 2006; Brogan Museum of Art, Tallahassee, Florida, February 18--–April 14, 2006
2005
On Paper, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California, February 26--–April 16
2006
Block Party, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California, July 15--–August 26
2006–2008
TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, California, September 17, 2006--–May 13, 2007; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, October 6--–December 30, 2007; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Gerogia, February 9--–May 4, 2008; Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina, June 22--–September 21, 2008
2007
Block Party II, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California, June 30--–August 25
2008
On Paper, David Nolan Gallery, New York, New York, June 26–August 1
2008–2009
Another Damned Drawing Show, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California, December 6, 2008–January 31, 2009
2009–2010
Drawing Itself, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, Vermont, November 22, 2009–February 21, 2010
2010
Wall-to-Wall, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California, June 5--–August 14
Recent Acquisitions from the Latin American Art Collection, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, May 8–December 5
2010–2011
Old to New, Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, October 13, 2010–September 18, 2011
2011
The New Verisimilitude, M+B Almont and Francois Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, California, July 14–September 2
2012
South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual and Media Arts Fellowship Awards Exhibition, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, Florida, September 10–October 16
Miami Project, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California, December 4–9
2013--–2014
40 Years at The Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Ambach and Rice, Los Angeles, California, November 23, 2013–January 11, 2014
2015–2016
Global Positioning Systems, Perez Art Museum, Miami, Florida, July 2015–June 2016
Tomio Koyama Gallery: Works from the Collection, 8/Art Gallery/Tomio Koyama, Tokyo, Japan, December 16, 2015–January 11, 2016
2017
Really? Curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, California, November 5–December 23
2018–2020
2019
36 Works on Paper, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, New York, July 18–August 9
2020
The System of Objects, David Nolan Gallery, New York, New York, August 12 – September 30
2022
Mimicries, Ben Hunter, London, United Kingdom, June 9–July 21
Small Paintings, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, New York, June 28–July 29
Summer Exhibition, Dickinson, New York, New York, July 11–September 2
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida
Herbert H. Johnson Art Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, California
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, Florida
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
SELECTED BOOKS AND CATALOGUES
Bosch, Lynette M. F. Victoria Gitman. Miami: Elite Fine Arts, 2000.
Damian, Carol. Victoria Gitman. Mexico City: Praxis International Art, September 1997.
Grim, Ruth. Victoria Gitman: On Display. Miami: Bass Museum of Art, 2005.
Macel, Christine and Elizabeth Sussman. Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015
Morales, Rene and Barry Schwabsky. Victoria Gitman: Desiring Eye. Miami: Perez Art Museum Miami, 2015.
Moura, Rodrigo, Susanna V. Temkin, and Elia Alba, eds. Estamos Bien: La Trienal 20/21. New York: El Museo del Barrio, 2021.
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. TRANSactions. San Diego: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 2006.
Ollman, Leah. Looking Closely: Victoria Gitman Paintings and Drawings. Las Vegas: Las Vegas Art Museum, 2008.
Rattemeyer, Christian. The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection: Catalogue Raisonne. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2009.
Schwartz, Joyce Pomeroy. Transitory Patterns. National Museum of Women in the Arts, 2004.
Trigg, Sarah. Studio Life: Rituals, Collections, Tools, and Observations on the Artistic Process. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2013.
SELECTED PERIODICALS
Arias, Soledad. “The Affordable Art Fair,” Arte al Dia, December 2002.
Axelrod, Nick. “Close Inspection,” Women’s Wear Daily, October 15, 2009.
Axelrod, Nick. “in Detail,” WWD Scoop, November 2007.
Benschop, Jurriaan. “Vierde Expo Chicago: Weer Aandacht Voor Schilderkunst,” H ART (October 22, 2015): 22.
Birbragher, Francine. “Victoria Gitman,” ArtNexus 4, no. 59 (2005): 169–70.
Bravo, Armando Alvarez. “Victoria Gitman: celebracion de la mujer, la belleza y la pintura.” El Nuevo Herald, September 17, 2000.
Bravo, Armando Alvarez. “Victoria Gitman: La precisa imagen.” El Nuevo Herald, October 11, 1998.
Colón, Beatriz. “At El Museo del Barrio Trienal, Five Latinx Painters to Watch.” Cultured (June/July/August 2021).
Dietsch, Deborah K. “Feminine Mystiques.” Sun-Sentinel, June 20, 1999.
Forestieri, Susanne. “Reality and Fairy Tales,” Las Vegas Weekly, March 13-19, 2008.
Goya, Cynthia Palacios. “Victoria Gitman: La mujer en la historia del arte.” Nacional, September 11, 1997.
Griffin, Jonathan. “The New Verisimilitude,” ArtReview, no. 53 (2011): 143.
Guilford, Lauren. “Pick of the Week: Victoria Gitman.” Artillery, April 6, 2022.
Hudson, Suzanne. “Victoria Gitman: François Ghebaly,” Artforum: Los Angeles, Summer 2022.
Izquierdo de Campos, Madeline. “Victoria Gitman.” ArtNexus, no. 39 (2001): 148–49.
Johnson, Ken. “Light as Air.” New York Times, August 1, 2003.
——— . “Art in Review,” New York Times, December 23, 2011.
Lu, Yaran. “Interview with Victoria Gitman.” Window of Arts, June 2014.
Lucas, Sherry. “Art a Century Apart.” Clarion-Ledger, March 2, 2003.
Madar, Chase. “Victoria Gitman.” Art News 101, no. 11 (2002): 118.
Marchetti, Simone. “Cosa C’e Dietro una Borsa?” La Repubblica, Velvet Magazine, April 2007.
Marger, Mary Ann. “Great Depth of Spirit.” St. Petersburg Times, May 26, 2000.
Maziar, Paul. “Distinct Pleasures: Victoria Gitman Interviewed by Paul Maziar.” BOMB Magazine, August 4, 2021.
McQuaid, Cate. “Colorful Imaginations,” Boston Globe, January 27, 2010.
Milani, Joanne. “Torn From Their Roots.” Tampa Tribune, June 4, 2000.
Ollman, Leah. “The Value of Accessorizing,” Los Angeles Times, April 2, 2004.
——— . “Review: Takako Yamaguchi Turns White and Gray Paint into Illusion of Startling Intensity.” Los Angeles Times, November 18, 2019.
Ornelas, Oscar Enrique. “Victoria Gitman,” El Financiero, September 12, 1997.
Osberg, Annabel. “A Purse with a Fine-Tooth Comb: Victoria Gitman at François Ghebaly.” Art in America, May 4, 2022.
Peterson, Kristen. “The Big and Small of It,” Las Vegas Sun, February 1, 2008.
Pobric, Pac. “Painter Victoria Gitman’s Meticulously Depicted Handbags Lure Viewers in With Seductive Surfaces, and Then Turn a Cold Shoulder.” Artnet News, April 21, 2022.
Schwan, Gary. “Reinventing Tradition.” Palm Beach Post, April 14, 2000.
Turner, Elisa. “Critic’s Pick.” Miami Herald, November 11, 2005.
———. “Edgy Works Add Liveliness to Hortt.” Miami Herald, September 27, 1998.
———. “Elite Self-Portraits.” Miami Herald, September 16, 2000.
———. “Hope, Failure Mingle on Winner’s Row.” Miami Herald, July 31, 1999.
———. “Women are the Focus at Compelling Shows in Alternative Spaces.” Miami Herald, January 19, 2003.