Bio

Victoria Urquidi (b. 1993) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the relationship between labor, identity, and technology across shifting digital and physical landscapes. Raised in El Paso, Texas, along the U.S - Mexico border, she draws from the region’s complex geography to consider how movement and boundaries, both visible and invisible, shape human experience. Her background in producing large-scale immersive installations for music festivals informs her interest in spatial design, interaction, and material storytelling. Now based in Phoenix, Arizona, Victoria continues to investigate how global systems of production and consumption influence the way we move, connect, and create meaning.

Artist Statement

I create sculptures and installations that explore the material, symbolic, and often invisible forces shaping contemporary life. My practice bridges tactile processes, like welding, ceramics and fabrication, with conceptual investigations into labor, consumption, and the fractured relationship between digital convenience and physical cost. I’m especially interested in the distance between the products we use and the people who make them, an often unseen chain of extraction, assembly, and displacement.

This is the foundation of Disposed Laborers, a sculptural project examining the mining of cobalt for handheld devices. Like much of my work, it reflects how digital infrastructures are sustained by physical labor and land. I use industrial materials, modular construction, and collaborative methods to build works that guide or interrupt the way people move through space. Whether towering in a festival environment or standing alone in a gallery, my installations prompt viewers to consider how their environments are shaped—by people, systems, and by the objects we often overlook.