Untitled (ripple), 2023
Virginia Overton (b.1971, Tennessee, United States) lives and works in New York. She creates sculpture and installation repurposing materials commonly associated with factories, farms and construction. By means of both subtle and drastic interventions, Overton re-contextualizes these ordinary objects, revealing their intrinsic properties which highlights the wear accrued by passing time. Many of her works are assembled with industrial materials that have been reconfigured to take the composition of naturalistic forms, such as the concrete shapes (originally purposed for tunnel construction) used to create the Untitled (tulip) sculpture in the 2022 La Biennale di Venezia. During Summer 2022, Overton installed a permanent installation consisting of found skylights, paired with replicas to create Untitled (skylight gems) in the Delta Terminal of LaGuardia Airport, Queens, New York.
Recent solo exhibitions include The Frame, New York (2025), White Cube, London (2025), Bortolami Gallery, New York (2024), Frist Art Museum, Nashville (2022); Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London (2022); Socrates Sculpture Park, New York (2018); Don River Valley Park, Toronto (2018); the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Arizona (2017); the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2016); The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut (2016); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (2014); the Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster (2013) and Kunsthalle Bern (2013).
Recent solo exhibitions include The Frame, New York (2025), White Cube, London (2025), Bortolami Gallery, New York (2024), Frist Art Museum, Nashville (2022); Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London (2022); Socrates Sculpture Park, New York (2018); Don River Valley Park, Toronto (2018); the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Arizona (2017); the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2016); The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut (2016); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (2014); the Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster (2013) and Kunsthalle Bern (2013).