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 (2018). She was awarded the Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund by the Dallas Museum of Art in 2018 and is a Cohort IV artist alum of The Cedars Union residency (2023-2025). Her work has been exhibited widely in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, including at the Texas Vignette Art Fair (2022, 2023, 2024). Most recently she has been included in presentations outside of the state, including 40 under 40 (2025) curated by Jennie Goldstein, Curator of the Collection at The Whitney, and the Cimarron National Works on Paper survey (2025) at the Oklahoma State University Art Museum. She is currently the Director of Erin Cluley Gallery and serves on the board of Texas Vignette as Vice President and Programming Chair.

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