Victoria Manning is a photographic artist living in the Hudson Valley, NY.

Her work explores the indeterminacy of self through history, memory, and folklore.  Using traditional black and white darkroom practices, she creates series of images that engage our uneasy relationship with the past and hover at the thresholds of truth and belief; undoing distinctions between the animate and the inanimate, the seen and unseen. Forgotten histories, fragments from the collective imagination, family memories, stories and secrets are all interwoven to construct uncanny narratives. Throughout the photographs, domestic spaces, landscapes, and the body are used to examine the idea of boundaries --- boundaries of land as fictional; boundaries of home as controlled and protected; and boundaries of self as porous. Human figures are fragmented and objects become more than just things.

She is the recipient of a 2026 Individual Artist Commission Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts and has been included in numerous group exhibitions, most recently at CPW Kingston and the Wassaic Project. A solo exhibition of her project Greetings from Oil Country was held in Olean, NY. Her work has been reviewed in publications such as Hyperallergic and the Chronogram and she co-authored an essay published in the peer-reviewed journal Oil-Industry History. 

Manning earned her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts.