How the Fingers Feel, 2024
Oil on canvas
60 in. x 48 in. / 152.4 cm. x 121.92 cm.
“Victoria Roth (b. 1986, Paris, France) is a visual artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She grew up in France and received her MFA from Columbia University in 2014 and a BA in History of Art & Architecture and Visual Art from Brown University in 2008. In addition to her studio practice, Victoria Roth is an arts educator in New York City.
Through imagined and high-keyed compositions, Roth’s work explores ideas of queer abstraction and desire as embedded in bodily forms that appear to constantly transform. While her paintings are loud and visceral, they resonate on a psychological level, revealing themselves over time. Biomorphic forms sit on the edge of recognition; a meaty shape expands like a muscle, a gnarled mass morphs into a heart, interlocking shapes appear to tickle, swell, embrace.
Roth has exhibited her paintings and drawings throughout Europe and North America. Her recent solo exhibitions and solo fair presentations include “When I Became You,” Emanuela Campoli Gallery (2025); “Velvet Nerve” at Broadway Gallery (2022); “Victoria Roth” (2019) and “Off the Banks” at Brennan & Griffin Gallery (2017); and “Insides” at fAN Kunstverein (2017).Her work has been included in numerous group shows at various galleries and institutions, including “Of Flesh and Air” at Galeria Marta Cervera (2024); “Summer Exhibition” at Shin Gallery (2024); “Deep! Down! Inside!” at Hales Gallery (2023); “Pizza” at Kate Werble Gallery (2023); “Jahresgaben” at Bonner Kunstverein (2022); “Intertwined” at 1960 Gallery (2021), and more.