Bio
b. 1990, Wiltshire, England
Victoria J. Fry is a New York City-based artist whose work explores the relationship between perception, memory, color, and experience through contemporary landscape painting and drawing. She holds an MAT from Maine College of Art & Design (2014) and a BFA from the School of Visual Arts (2012).
Her work has been exhibited at Paradigm Gallery (Philadelphia), Greenpoint Gallery (New York City), and Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, among others. Fry’s work has also been featured in notable publications such as Create! Magazine, Art Reveal, and Pif.
Beyond her practice as a visual artist, Fry is the founder of Visionary Art Collective, New Visionary Magazine, and Warnes Contemporary Gallery, platforms dedicated to supporting emerging artists.
She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Artist Statement
In my work, I explore the relationship between place, memory, and emotion through contemporary landscape painting. Each piece emerges from a liminal space between waking and dreaming, where imagination and reality seem to blend. I reflect on how my earliest memories of the world—formed in the quiet stillness of the English countryside—have shaped my long-term perception of place and belonging. Though years have passed since I left rural England, these landscapes remain vivid yet elusive, as if seen through the lens of a dream. My work becomes an act of preservation—a way to hold on to moments that feel fragile and ephemeral.
Yet, over time, my focus has shifted. My landscapes have become less about the external world and more about the internal emotional terrain they evoke. I consider each painting to be an "emotional landscape," capturing not just a place but the memories and sensations that surface within it. The times of day that most captivate me—sunrise and sunset—often feel heartbreakingly beautiful. These landscapes hold that delicate, fleeting moment between day and dusk, where beauty and loss can feel all-consuming.
Titles such as "Finding Our Way Home," "Do You Still Remember?" and "Even the Trees Wept" invite viewers to reflect on their own sense of belonging, loss, and connection. These works are conversations—between land and memory, between what we project onto the natural world and what it reflects back to us.
In recent work, I am particularly curious about how landscapes can mirror and hold our emotions. Can a place remember us? Can it absorb the weight of our experiences and become a repository for memory and meaning? How do we, in turn, shape our perception of place based on what we carry within? The land becomes more than a symbol of home—it becomes a partner in our unfolding narratives of growth, change, and reflection.
By engaging with these questions, I invite viewers into a shared exploration of dreams, memories, and the spaces in between—moments suspended in time, where beauty and longing quietly coexist, and where rediscovery and reflection remind us that home is not a place, but a feeling carried forward.