victoria brill (b. 1996, Oregon) is a Dallas-based artist whose work turns the lens of figurative painting inward, using self-portraiture to explore identity as an evolving, layered experience. Working across oil painting, works on paper, and mixed media, her figures are often translucent and caught in mid-emergence, rendered in soft washes and visible underpaintings that highlight emotional states in flux.
Her figures frequently appear doubled or mirrored, embodying moments of reflection, grief, and renewal. These works are set against pristine, unpainted canvas or paper, existing in a liminal space between the material and the imagined. Recent pieces draw on childhood memories of the Pacific Northwest coastline, where sea stacks and tide pools—shaped by their environment but never quite tethered—serve as metaphors for the body’s resilience and solitude. Like these coastal forms, Brill’s figures are suspended in a constant process of becoming, negotiating between past and future selves.
brill holds a BA in Visual and Performing Arts with a Minor in Art History from the University of Texas at Dallas. She was awarded the Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund by the Dallas Museum of Art in 2018 and is an alumna of The Cedars Union residency (Cohort IV). Her work has been exhibited widely in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, including at the Texas Vignette Art Fair (2022, 2023, 2024). She is currently the Assistant Director at Erin Cluley Gallery and a board member of the Emergency Artist Support League (EASL).