Victoria Ahrens

Victoria Ahrens is an Argentine-British artist, writer, and researcher based in London. Her work delves into the intersections of photography, materiality, and landscape, exploring themes of the failure of memory, the invisibility of history, and the Anthropocenic image.

Victoria holds a PhD in Photographic Theory and Practice from Birkbeck College, University of London (2017), an MA in Printmaking from Camberwell College of Art (2013), and a BA in Fine Art Sculpture from Central Saint Martins (2006). She has exhibited extensively in the UK and internationally, with her work featured in both private and public collections in the UK, Italy, Denmark, China and France. She has won numerous awards including: the Celeste Photography Prize and the Clifford Chance Purchase Prize. In addition to her artistic practice, Ahrens works as the MA Photography Course Leader at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.