Victoria Burge

Victoria Burge (b. 1977) is an American artist whose drawings, prints, and sculptural works investigate systems of mapping, spatial memory, and the poetics of information. Working from her studio in Philadelphia, Burge approaches mark‑making as an act of translation: diagrams, constellations, and archival cartographic structures become starting points for meticulous visual abstractions. Her work embraces both the order and fallibility of mapping, revealing the generative tension between measured systems and the unknowability of experience.

Burge’s practice is grounded in printmaking, and her technical fluency informs the graphic precision of her compositions. Through etching, photogravure, and relief processes, she constructs delicate networks of marks that echo astronomical charts or imagined topographies. Exhibitions at the Print Center (Philadelphia), Cade Tompkins Projects, and institutions such as the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum have showcased her evolving engagement with data, memory, and structure. Residencies at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation have further shaped her inquiry into repetition and variation.

Her works are held in major collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. While her imagery often suggests scientific observation, Burge disrupts strict empiricism through intuitive shifts, erasures, and ruptures. By transforming systems of measurement into poetic diagrams, she invites viewers to consider how we chart space, time, and experience in a world increasingly defined by data.