Virginia Lee Montgomery

Virginia Lee Montgomery (b. Houston, Texas) is an artist working between Texas and New York, primarily with video, performance, sound, and sculpture. VLM interrogates the relationship between physical and psychic structures and the uncanny materiality of lived experience. VLM is a current 2019-2020 MRSEC Artist in Residence at the University of Texas at Austin and a 2019 member of CRITGROUP at The Contemporary Austin. Recent exhibitions include: “HONEY MOON,” Midnight Moment, Times Square Arts, NY (2019); “PONY COCOON,” False Flag, NY (2019); “The 2018–2019 Socrates Annual,” Socrates Sculpture Park, NY; “CRASH TEST: The Molecular Turn,” La Panacée-MoCo, Montpellier, France (2018); “An unbound knot in the wind,” Hessel Museum of Art, NY (2018); “OPEN MIND: Selva Aparicio and VLM,” CRUSH Curatorial, NY (2018); “Material Deviance,” SculptureCenter, NY (2017); and “The Particle Accelerator Memorial Project,” Wright Laboratory, Physics Department, Yale University, CT (2015). She has been awarded residencies at The Shandaken Project at Storm King, The Carving Studio & Sculpture Center, Wright Laboratory, Coast Time, The University of Texas at Austin’s MRSEC Program, and The Vermont Studio Center. VLM was the recipient of Yale University’s Susan H. Wedon Award (2016) and was a nominee in sculpture for the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship (2016).

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