Drawing, painting, writing stories, and otherwise creating have been a vital part of me as far back as I can remember. At age 5, I was given a camera for my birthday and that ushered a fascination with photography into the mix. Each type of medium I’ve tried and gravitated toward have interlaced with each other, leading to sweeping mixed media projects over the years.
Although each of my projects has its own concept, they each invariably center around images of the quotidian turned askew and made dramatic or surreal. I don’t bend toward a want to capture grandiosity, but rather lean into giving a voice to the quiet. The biggest ideas, the most otherworldly moments, and the majority of life lived happen in the quiet mundane. What it is to be human exists in the grotesque everyday. Those are the places ideas come to me from, ideas that pull at me until I find a way to translate them correctly into whichever medium best suits them.
In whichever art form I decide to present an idea, the content of the images tend to repeat: commonplace objects, Americana, and religious imagery are frequently recurring. My style is predominantly realistic, sparse, and reflective of my distaste for bright color by more often choosing instead to translate everything into black and white or virtually monochromatic muted tones. The concepts themselves invariably revolve around themes of isolation, introversion, memory, spirituality, and impermanence.
Artist Bio
VC Torneden is a visual artist who works in multiple mediums including photography. She draws predominantly in graphite, ink, and charcoal and paints predominantly in oil. She photographs both analogue and digital, and although she appreciates digital, she came up shooting film and will always prefer film.
Her formal training in the arts began in early childhood and extended into study as a young adult at the University of New Orleans and Memphis College of Art. Her background includes education and work experience in painting, illustration, advertising design, and photojournalism. Since 1995, her work has been featured in various publications and exhibited nationwide. She creates and works from her home studio in rural Oklahoma County.
Her current projects include a series about her years spent living in Tulsa incorporating both painting and photography and a collaborative documentary photo project entitled The Other Side which seeks to chronical Route 66 in the years just ahead of its centennial.
Current Exhibitions
Jan. 15 – Feb. 8
Jan. 9 – Mar. 1
Jan. 2 – 30
Jan. 2 – 24
The Contemporary Print
Link & Pin Gallery, Austin TX
In Dreams
Uncanny Arthouse, Norman OK
Color
Dusk Gallery, Santa Fe NM
Homefires
TAC Gallery, Tulsa OK
Recent Solo Exhibitions
Aug. 2025
Apr. – May 2025
Jun. 2023
Dec. 2016
Aug. 2016
The Ways and Means (painting/mixed media exhibition)
Carson House, Tulsa OK
Landscapes, Spirits (photography exhibition)
Crystal Bridges Gallery at Myriad Gardens, OKC OK
The Wichitas (photography exhibition)
PACC Gallery II, OKC OK
Circus (photography exhibit)
The Art Space OKC, OKC OK
Ghost Towns (photography exhibit)
Red Dirt Gallery OK, Piedmont OK
Recent Collaborative Exhibitions
Oct. 2025
Sep. 2025
Jul. – Oct. 2025
Sep. 2024
Apr. 2024
Aug. 2023
Apr. 2023
Aug. 2022
Western Skies (with Clayton Beavers)
Edmond Fine Arts Institute, Edmond OK
The Other Side (with Melinda Green Harvey)
Artwrecker Studios, Chickasha OK
Here for Now (with Tulsa Artist Fellowship and Queen Rose Art House)
Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa FL
The Other Side (with Melinda Green Harvey)
Paseo Arts & Creativity Center Gallery I, Oklahoma City OK
The Other Side (with Melinda Green Harvey)
Living Arts, Tulsa OK
The Other Side (with Melinda Green Harvey)
Charles Adams Gallery, Lubbock TX
The Other Side (with Melinda Green Harvey)
TAC Gallery, Tulsa OK
The Other Side (with Melinda Green Harvey)
Paseo Gallery One, Oklahoma City OK
Artist Residencies
Feb. – Jul. 2024
Paseo Gallery One, Oklahoma City OK
Recent Awards
Dec. 2025
Jul. 2025
Jul. 2025
Jan. 2025
Jan. 2024
Dec. 2022
Mar. 2022
Merit Award – Raven Study No. 2 (oil painting)
Oklahoma Art Guild Members’ Show
Street SmARTS Gallery, OKC OK
Honorable Mention – Pandhandle No. 7 (Photograph)
Shape of Light
Arlington Museum of Art,Arlington TX
Merit Award – Panhandle No. 3 (Monotype Acrylic Print)
Print on Paseo
PACC Gallery I, OKC OK
Juror’s Choice – Nocturne No. 15 (Oil & Acrylic Painting)
Homefires: Tulsa Artist Coalition 35th Annual Members’ Show
TAC Gallery, Tulsa OK
Honorable Mention – Tulsa No. 1 (Photography)
Tulsa Artist Coalition 34th Annual Members’ Show
Oklahoma Center for the Humanities/101 Archer, Tulsa OK
Second Place – American Dreamin’ (Photography)
3rd Annual Members’ Exhibition
Dallas Center for Photography, Dallas TX
Honorable Mention – Land for Lease, Highly Visible Location (Photography)
The March Show: Home
Gallery Two at the PACC, Oklahoma City OK
Additional Honors
Dec. 2024
May – Oct. 2022
Juror/Curator – Salon at Gallery One Photography Exhibition
Paseo Gallery One, OKC OK
Featured Artist – Portfolio Platform 2022
Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita KS
Recent Group Exhibitions
Dec. 2025
Dec. 2025
Nov. – Dec. 2025
Nov. – Dec. 2025
Nov. – Dec. 2025
Aug. – Nov. 2025
Oct. – Nov. 2025
Oct. 2025
Sep. – Oct. 2025
Sep. 2025
Aug. – Sep. 2025
Aug. – Sep. 2025
Jul. – Aug. 2025
Jul. 2025
Jun. – Aug. 2025
Jun. – Aug. 2025
Jun. – Jul. 2025
May 2025
May 2025
Apr. – Jun. 2025
Apr. – May 2025
Apr. – May 2025
Apr. 2025
Apr. 2025
Apr. 2025
Mar. – May 2025
Mar. 2025
Feb. – Apr. 2025
Feb. – Apr. 2025
Feb. – Mar. 2025
Feb. 2025
Jan. – Mar. 2025
Jan. 2025
Jan. 2025
Nov. ’24 – Jan. ’25
Nov. – Dec. 2024
Sep. – Oct 2024
Sep. 2024
Aug. 2024
Jun. – Aug. 2024
Jun. 2024
Jun. 2024
Apr. – Jun. 2024
Mar. 2024
Feb. 2024
Feb. – Apr. 2024
Jan. – Apr. 2024
Jan. – Mar. 2024
Jan. 2024
Jan. 2024
Nov. 2023 – Feb. 2024
Nov. – Dec. 2023
Oct. – Nov. 2023
Aug. – Sep. 2023
May – Jun. 2023
Mar. – May 2023
Mar. – Apr. 2023
Feb. – May 2023
Feb. 2023
Jan. – Mar. 2023
Dec. 2022
Nov. – Dec. 2022
Sep. 2022
Jul. – Aug. 2022
July 2022
July 2022
Jun. – Jul. 2022
May 2022
Mar. – Apr. 2022
Mar. – Apr. 2022
Mar. 2022
Mar. 2022
Feb. 2022
Jan. 2022
Dec. 2021 – Jan. 2022
Dec. 2021
Nov. – Dec. 2021
Oct. – Nov. 2021
Oct. 2021
Sep. – Oct. 2021
Feb. 2020
Sep. 2015 & 2013
Camera Work: Black and White
Black Box Gallery, Portland OR
Oklahoma Art Guild Members’ Show
Street SmARTS Gallery, OKC OK
Empty Places: Abandoned Spaces
Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis MN
Art Soup 2.0
Uncanny Arthouse, Norman OK
PAA Small Works
PACC Gallery II, OKC OK
Cimarron National Works on Paper
OSU Museum of Art, Stillwater OK
The Sunday Collection
TAC Gallery, Tulsa OK
Nightmare on Main
Creex Art Gallery, Tulsa OK
Sarah J. Clark Biennial Works on Paper
Alexandre Hogue Gallery, Tulsa OK
Paseo Art Association Photofest
PACC Gallery II, OKC OK
Mid America Print Council Juried Members’ Exhibition
Gardiner Gallery of Art, Stillwater OK
Pulled Together
Oscillator Press, Norman OK
Shape of Light
Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington TX
Print on Paseo
PACC Gallery II, OKC OK
OVAC Members’ Exhibit 2025
Oklahoma Hall of Fame Gaylord Pickens Museum, OKC OK
Behind the Mask
Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin MO
Oh, Tulsa!
Living Arts, Tulsa OK
Juxtapose
Liggett Studio, Tulsa OK
Not on View
Charles Adams Gallery, Lubbock TX
13th Annual BAAC National Juried Exhibition
Batesville Area Arts Council Gallery, Batesville AR
Into the Void – From the Void: Boundaries and Margins in Printmaking and Photography
Remarque Print Workshop, Albuquerque NM
What is Left Unspoken
Hazel Modella Gallery, Stillwater OK
Curiosity
TCC McKeon Center for Creativity, Tulsa OK
Art Noir
The Studio Door, San Diego CA
OAG Small Works Exhibit
Paseo Gallery One, OKC OK
PhotoSpiva 2025
George A. Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin MO
The March Show: Resilience
PACC Gallery II, OKC OK
59th Annual CAIN National
CAIN Gallery, Corpus Christi TX
Foto Forum Santa Fe 6th Annual Members Show
Foto Forum Santa Fe, Santa Fe NM
Ruin and Regrowth: Reckoning with Nature
Arts@302, Broken Arrow OK
Paseo Arts Association Members’ Show
PACC Gallery II, OKC OK
2025 Human Rights Exhibition
College of the Sequoias Gallery, Visalia CA
Homefires: TAC 35th Annual Members’ Show
TAC Gallery, Tulsa OK
Waking the Witch: Ruminations on Feminine Rage
Living Arts, Tulsa OK
24th Annual Images of the Virgin
Luna Gallery, San Jaun Bautista CA
Decision ’24
Charles Adams, Lubbock TX
Dreams: An Exploration of the Strange & Unusual
Living Arts, Tulsa OK
Abandoned
Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville SC
Anything Goes
Charles Adams, Lubbock TX
FotoTexas III: People, Places & Culture 2024
Museum of the Big Bend, Alpine TX
Red
Decode Gallery, Tucson AZ
Metamorphic Emergence
Paseo Gallery One, Oklahoma City OK
The Human Experience
New Orleans Photo Alliance Center, New Orleans LA
The March Show: Storytellers
Gallery II at the PACC, Oklahoma City OK
Monochrome
Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury VT
PAA Members’ Show 2023
Gallery II at the PACC, Oklahoma City OK
Foto Forum Santa Fe 5th Annual Members Show
Foto Forum Santa Fe, Santa Fe NM
Vision Through the Lens 9th Annual Photography Show
SAGE Community Arts, Sheridan WY
Tulsa Artist Coalition 34th Annual Members’ Show
Oklahoma Center for the Humanities/101 Archer, Tulsa OK
Oklahoma Art Guild Small Works 2024
Paseo Gallery One, Oklahoma City OK
High & Dry XXIII: A Photographic Exhibition of Peoples and Places of the World’s Dry Lands
Texas Tech University International Cultural Center, Lubbock TX
PAA Small Art Show
Gallery II at the PACC, Oklahoma City OK
Interlines, Lifelines, Redlines: Social Markers of Race, Class & Economics
Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Providence RI
DNA Gallery’s Photography Show
DNA Gallery, OKC OK
At Night: A Photographic Exploration of Light
Ellington-White Contemporary, Fayetteville NC
PhotoSpiva 2023
Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin MO
The March Show: Empowering the Feminine Spirit
Gallery II at the PACC, Oklahoma City OK
8th Annual Landscapes Art Exhibition (online)
Fusion Art, Santa Fe NM
PAA Members’ Show 2023
Gallery II at the PACC, Oklahoma City OK
Hogue 125 Inspired: Oklahoma Landscapes
Alexandre Hogue Gallery, Tulsa OK
3rd Annual Members’ Exhibition
Dallas Center for Photography, Dallas TX
Poetry of the Ordinary (online)
Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury VT
Paseo Photofest
Paseo Arts & Creativity Center Gallery II, OKC OK
Photography 2022
IU Kokomo Art Gallery, Kokomo IN
Americana
Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita KS
SAAC 2022 Juried Art Exhibition
South Arkansas Arts Center, El Dorado AR
Human Nature
Decode Gallery, Tucson AZ
Landscapes
Dallas Center for Photography, Dallas TX
Forgotten (online)
A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City TX
2022 Midwest Center for Photography Juried Exhibition
Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita KS
The March Show: Home
Gallery II at the PACC, Oklahoma City OK
Lens 2022 International Juried Photography Exhibition
Perspective Fine Art Photography Gallery, Evanston IL
PAA Members’ Show 2022
Gallery II at the PACC, Oklahoma City OK
Viewpoint: Landscape & Architecture
Black Box Gallery, Portland OR
Kansas City Society for Contemporary Photography Current Works 2021
Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO
Color: Photography Now
Black Box Gallery, Portland OR
PAA Small Art Show
Gallery II at the PACC, Oklahoma City OK
Black + White
Decode Gallery, Tucson AZ
Gesture – A Portrait Exhibition
Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita KS
Paseo Photofest Annual Group Show
Paseo Gallery, Oklahoma City OK
PAA Members Group Show
The Artspace OKC, Oklahoma City OK
Paseo Photofest Annual Group Show
The ArtSpace OKC, Oklahoma City OK
Recent Charitable Exhibitions
Dec. 2025 SixTwelve Digital Art Auction
SixTwelve, OKC OK
Benefiting SixTwelve Art Programming and Residencies
Dec. 2025 Deck the Walls 4×4 Art Show & Auction
Paseo Arts & Creativity Center, Oklahoma City OK
Benefiting the Paseo Arts Association
Aug. – Sep. 2025 ARTini Tulsa 2025
101 Archer, Tulsa OK
Benefiting the Arts Alliance Tulsa
May – Jun. 2025 EFA 5×5 Fundraiser
Edmond Fine Arts Gallery, Edmond OK
Benefiting Edmond Fine Arts Institute
May 2025 Kaleidoscope: Edmond Fine Arts 40th Anniversary Celebration
Edmond Fine Arts Institute, Edmond OK
Benefiting the Edmond Fine Arts Association
May 2025 ARTini 2025
OKC Convention Center, Oklahoma City OK
Benefiting Allied Arts OKC
May 2025 TAC 5×5 Fundraiser
TAC Gallery, Tulsa OK
Benefiting the Tulsa Artists’ Coalition
Mar. 2025 ONE Spring Night
MAINSITE Contemporary Art, Norman OK
Benefiting the Norman Arts Council
Feb. – Mar. 2025 Through the Looking Glass:
Champagne and Chocolate Members Showcase
Living Arts, Tulsa OK
Benefiting Living Arts of Tulsa
Oct. 2024 Inspiring Hope
Paseo Arts & Creativity Center Gallery I, OKC OK
Benefiting the Friends of the OU Breast Institute
Sep. 2024 VERSES 2024
Central Library, Tulsa OK
Benefiting the Ruth G. Hardman Adult Literacy Service
Sep. 2024 OVAC 12×12
OKC Farmers Public Market, Oklahoma City OK
Benefiting the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition
Aug. – Sep. 2024 ARTini Tulsa 2024
Center for the Humanities, Tulsa OK
Benefiting the Arts Alliance Tulsa
May 2024 TAC 5×5 Fundraiser
TAC Gallery, Tulsa OK
Benefiting the Tulsa Artists’ Coalition
May 2024 ARTini 2024
OKC Convention Center, Oklahoma City OK
Benefiting Allied Arts OKC
May 2024 EFA 5×5 Fundraiser
Edmond Fine Arts Gallery, Edmond OK
Benefiting Edmond Fine Arts Institute
Mar. 2024 The Art of Area FiftyONE
MAINSITE Contemporary Art, Norman OK
Benefiting the Norman Arts Council
Dec. 2023 Deck the Walls 4×4 Art Show & Auction
Paseo Arts & Creativity Center, Oklahoma City OK
Benefiting the Paseo Arts Association
Aug. – Sep. 2023 OVAC 12×12
The Art Hall OKC & Lively Beerworks, Oklahoma City OK
Benefiting the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition
Jun. 2023 Off the Wall
Dallas Center for Photography, Dallas TX
Benefiting the Dallas Center for Photography
May 2023 TAC 5×5 Fundraiser
TAC Gallery, Tulsa OK
Benefiting the Tulsa Artists’ Coalition
Apr. 2023 ARTini 2023
OKC Convention Center, Oklahoma City OK
Benefiting the Allied Arts OKC
Dec. 2022 Deck the Walls 4×4 Art Show & Auction
Paseo Arts Center, Oklahoma City OK
Benefiting the Paseo Arts Association
Sep. – Dec. 2022 Artists for Literacy
The Art Hall, Oklahoma City OK
Benefiting the Oklahoma City Metro Literacy Coalition
Sep. 2022 OVAC 12×12
Lively Beerworks, Oklahoma City OK
Benefiting the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition
Aug. 2022 ARTini 2022
Camp Trivera, Oklahoma City OK
Benefiting the Allied Arts OKC
Dec. 2021 Deck the Walls 4×4 Art Show & Auction
Paseo Arts & Creativity Center, Oklahoma City OK
Benefiting the Paseo Arts Association
Dec. 2014 Deck the Walls 4×4 Art Show & Auction
Paseo Arts Center, Oklahoma City OK
Benefiting the Paseo Arts Association
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