Virginia Broersma

Virginia Broersma is a Los Angeles based artist whose work focuses on patterns of representation in figurative painting and Southern California leisure practices through curating, writing, collaborative projects, public art and organizing support for artists along with her studio practice.

Virginia Broersma’s work has been exhibited at museums, galleries and alternative spaces in Los Angeles, Berlin, Tokyo, New York, and Chicago among other US and international cities. Recent projects have been shown at the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Latin American Art, The New Museum, Los Gatos, The Lodge Gallery and the Laband Gallery at Loyola Marymount University. Broersma has been the recipient of several grants including funding from the Arts Council of Long Beach, the California Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Puffin Foundation and the City of Chicago. In 2019, she completed a large public mural project with the San Pedro Waterfront Arts District. From 2019-2020, Broersma wrote a column for the Long Beach Post's Art and Culture site and has written essays for several exhibition catalogs and published numerous studio visit interviews with artists. In addition to her studio practice, she currently operates The Artist's Office, through which she creates systems of support for artists' professional practices.

Broersma lives in Long Beach, CA and her studio is located in downtown Los Angeles, CA.




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