Victoria Sambunaris
Untitled (Potash Mine, Distant View), 2004
archival pigment print
20 x 24 inches (unframed)
includes copies of two signed books
opening bid: $4,000
buy it now: $10,000
For the Radius auction, Sambunaris has offered this stunning print in addition to her two Radius titles: the recent Transformation of a Landcape and the sold-out Taxonomy of a Landscape, no longer available for retail purchase anywhere.
Victoria Sambunaris was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1964, and currently lives and works in New York. She received a BA from Mount Vernon College in 1986 and an MFA from Yale University School of Art in 1999. She has held teaching positions at Yale University and Sarah Lawrence College and is currently Guest Critic at Yale School of Architecture.
Her work has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States including National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; and New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe. Her work can be seen in numerous collections throughout the United States, including those of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Sambunaris has received numerous awards, including the Charles Red Fellowship in Western American Studies, Brigham Young University (2015); Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship (2010); and the Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2010). She is the recipient of a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship.
