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Victoria Cantons (b.1969, London, UK) is a conceptual visual artist working in London, UK. Cantons’s artistic work is varied and is presented in multiple mediums including painting, neon, poetry, text, performance, photographs and videos, connecting and disconnecting psychological boundaries in the relationships we have with ourselves and others.

Her work is autobiographical and confessional with political undercurrents. Being raised in a multicultural and multireligious home by European immigrant parents—her mother was from Spain and Catholic, and her father was French-Algerian, born to Russian Jewish and Basque parents—Cantons has memories of being different from the outset. Her ability to accept, declare and celebrate oneself is an ongoing journey for her, and has been littered with mental anguish, trauma, and scars. This influence can be seen in her works, with her use of text written into the surface of paintings and the language used to title works.

Highlights of recent exhibitions include "There Are Other Skies", Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA), Arizona (2025, group); "Art Icon 2025", Phillips & Whitechapel Gallery, London (2025, fundraiser); "Present Tense", Hauser & Wirth (2024, group); "If Only, Time Were Ours To Spend, Again", Kunstverein Dresden (2023, solo); "What Birds Plunge Through Is Not The Intimate Space", Guts Gallery (2023, solo); "Nothing is Absolute", Flowers Gallery, London (2023, solo). Upcoming exhibitions include: "A Guide For How To Remove Steps From Thought To Action", Niru Ratman Gallery, London (2025, solo); Queer Britain, London (2025, group); "Build it, Beat it", Christie's London (2025, group fundraiser); Mimosa House (2026, solo).

Victoria Cantons

Untitled (song), 2023

 

Oil, oil [paint stick] and pastel on linen

200 x 200 cm

Price: 35.000 EUR

Victoria Cantons

Untitled (What matters on the small scale of the human heart?), 2023

 

Oil and oil [paint stick] on linen

200 x 95 cm

Price: 22.000 EUR

Victoria Cantons

Untitled (breathe hope), 2023

 

Oil, oil [paint stick] and pastel on linen

200 x 105 cm

Price: 22.000 EUR

Victoria Cantons

One day I will laugh about this (transgender woman), 2022

 

Oil and oil [paint stick] on linen

170 x 150 cm

Price: 30.000 EUR

Victoria Cantons

Untitled (Woman), 2022

 

Oil on linen

170 x 150 cm

Price: 30.000 EUR

Victoria Cantons

T̶r̶a̶n̶s̶g̶e̶n̶d̶e̶r̶ Woman No.3, 2021

 

Oil on linen

170 x 150 cm

Price: Price not available.

Victoria Cantons

Six words (hope, faith, love, trust, dream, believe), 2023

 

Hand made neon glass in warm/neutral white

Variable measures

Price: 35.000 EUR

Victoria Cantons

Clinging To My Own Beliefs / Belly Button Fuzz, 2017

 

single-channel HD video, colour and sound (2 channel mono), total running time 4 min 7 sec

4m 7s

Price: 7.000 EUR

Victoria Cantons

Untitled (A way to avoid the mess one makes of one’s life), 2023

 

Oil on linen

45 x 50 cm

Price: 5.400 EUR

Victoria Cantons

Untitled (Like good fruit, the balance of life lies between ripe and ruin), 2023

 

Oil on linen

70 x 80 cm

Price: 10.000 EUR

Victoria Cantons

Untitled (If I changed to be the way you say you want me, I'd only be the way l've always wanted to), 2025

 

Oil on linen

25.4 x 20.3 cm

Price: 3.500 EUR

Victoria Cantons

Untitled (Don’t worry, the stars will come out and the sun will shine) [Caravaggio], 2024

 

Oil on linen

25.4 x 20.3 cm

Price: 3.500 EUR

For more information about available works, please don't hesitate to contact us at info@tubecontemporary.com or visit our website at www.tubecontemporary.com. All images courtesy of the Artist and Tube Gallery. Photo credits: Natasha Lebedeva.