Veronica Graham is a visual artist working with digital media and print publishing. Her practice revolves around poetic world-building, crafting artifacts and interactive experiences that draw attention to the fictions we internalize to make sense of the world around us. In 2010, she founded Most Ancient, a design studio focused on experimental comics and exploration games. Her work has been collected by institutions such as MoMA, the New York Public Library, and SFMOMA. In 2024, Diatribes, a VR narrative experience that Graham directed and designed, was an official selection at Slamdance (DIG), FIVARS and an Impact Award Nominee at IndieCade. Her virtual worlds have been funded by Meta and presented at Kala Art Institute, Women’s Studio Workshop, Printed Matter (NYC), and Gray Area (SF). Graham is also an arts educator, lecturing on virtual reality at Stanford University.

Graham’s work is available at Most Ancient, Women’s Studio Workshop (Rosendale, NY), Kala Art Institute (Berkeley, CA), Passages Bookshop (Portland OR), Printed Matter (NYC), Floating World Comics (Portland OR), itch.io, Meta Store, and Steam.

For inquires, contact veronica@mostancient.com

*This website is hosted by The Present Group, built by Oliver Wise, and designed by Veronica Graham.

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 CV

Biography
Born in San Jose, California, USA. 
Lives in Portland, Oregon and Oakland, California, USA

Selected Honors/Awards/Residencies
2025 Writer-in-Residence, Writing Space, Chicago, IL
2024 IndieCade Impact Award Nominee for Diatribes, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Gray Area Cultural Incubator, Gray Area, San Francisco, CA
2023 Trailer Blaze Comics Residency, Seaview WA
2022 Stochastic Labs Summer AI Workgroup, Berkeley, CA
2022 Oculus Launch Pad Grant Recipient, Meta, Menlo Park, CA
2021 Visiting Artist Experimental Animation Workshop, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA
2019 Signal Culture, Artist Residency, Owego, NY
2019 Best American Comics: the Notable Comics, Houghton Mifflin, USA
2018-2019 Media Arts Residency Award, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2017 Artist’s Book Residency Grant, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY

Selected Projects/Performances
2024 Diatribes, Virtual Reality Interactive Experience, Steam and Oculus platforms
2024-2022 The Zium, Virtual Museum Exploration Game, itch.io platform for PC and Mac
2021 Berkeley Art Museum, World Building public workshop, June 12th, Berkeley, CA
2019 Printed Matter Inc, Diatribes presentation and book reading, Oct 19th, New York, NY
2018 The Zium Garden, Virtual Museum Exploration Game, itch.io platform for PC and Mac
2017 The Muybridge Mausoleum, Virtual Reality Art Installation, Steam and Oculus platforms

Selected Publications
2025 Prop Comic, Most Ancient, Portland, OR
2023 Real Milk (collaboration with Ryan Kuo), Most Ancient, Oakland, CA
2022 The Weather, Most Ancient, Oakland, CA
2021 Ice Breakers, Most Ancient, Oakland, CA
2020 YU EL EL AR YU AR EL EL (2nd edition), Chute Studio, Oakland, CA
2019 Monument Park, Editioned Print, Kayrock, Brooklyn, NY
2019 NAT vs CIV, Most Ancient, Oakland, CA
2018 Cold Snaps, Most Ancient, Oakland, CA
2018 HARDCORE AMBIENT #2, Hardcore Ambient, San Diego, CA
2017 Class Set Volume 1, Current Editions, Emeryville, CA
2017 Dry Spells, Most Ancient, Oakland, CA
2017 The Map of Neighboring Bodies, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
2016 DUMMY TXT, Most Ancient, Oakland, CA
2014 Scaffold 1-3 (collaboration with Jesse Eisenhower), Hic and Hoc Publications, Montclair, NJ
2013 Mothers (collaboration with Jesse Eisenhower), Most Ancient, Oakland, CA
2012 LODE, Most Ancient, Oakland, CA

Selected Festivals
2025 Slamdance Festival, Official Selection for Diatribes, Los Angeles, CA
2024 IndieCade, Official Selection for Diatribes, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories, Official Selection for Diatribes, Toronto Canada
2024-2019 Los Angeles Art Book Fair, Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
2024-2023 Press Play Fair, Pioneer Works, New York, NY
2024-2018 San Francisco Art Book Fair, Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, CA
2023 Syzygy, Diatribes at GDC Game Showcase, March 20th, San Francisco, CA
2022-2017 Short Run, Seattle, WA
2019 Chicago Art Book Fair, Chicago Athletic Association, Chicago, IL
2018 Vancouver Art Book Fair, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2018 Comic Arts Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Collections
Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, NY
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Columbia University Library, New York, NY
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
SFMoMA Library, San Francisco, CA
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Stanford University Art and Architecture Library, Palo Alto, CA
Olin Library, Mills College, Oakland, CA
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Haas Family Arts Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
University of Miami, Miami, FL
Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Selected Exhibitions
2024 Unfolding Duplications, Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA
2022 Not Quite Fatal, Wave Pool, Cincinnati, OH and Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City, MO.
2021 Where We Were When We Were Not Who We Once Were, Holland Project Gallery, Reno, NV.
2019 Printed Publics, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2019 Diatribes Demo, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2019 Performative Computation Symposium, Navel, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Sex, Death, and Visceral Honesty, Connecticut State University Fine Art Gallery, New Britain, CT
2017 Wonder: A Conversation with Wimmin, Roots Division, San Francisco, CA
2014 Scaffold Book Release Exhibition, Mission Comics, San Francisco, CA

Selected Lectures and Panels
2024 Falmouth University, Visiting Artist Lecture, Falmouth, Cornwall, UK
2024 IndieCade, Creator Lecture and Panel, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Gray Area, Simulation Sessions Lecture, San Francisco, CA
2023 SF Art Book Fair, Publisher Lecture, San Francisco, CA
2022 UC Berkeley, Visiting Artist Lecture, Berkeley, CA
2021 Tufts University, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Visiting Artist Lecture, Boston, MA
2021 University of San Francisco, Visiting Artist Lecture, San Francisco, CA
2019 Stanford University, Visiting Artist Lecture, Palo Alto, CA
2019 San Jose State University, Visiting Artist Lecture, San Jose, CA
2019 Kala Art Institute, Fellowship Talk, Berkeley, CA
2019 Living Room Light Exchange, Artists Talk, San Francisco, CA

Related Professional Work
2025-2020 Stanford University, Lecturer, Department of Art & Art History, Palo Alto, CA
2023, 2021 California College of the Arts, Lecturer, San Francisco, CA
2018-2015 Games Advisory Network Member, Play SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2018 San Francisco Art Institute, Lecturer, Printmaking Department, San Francisco, CA

Education
2006 B.A. in Painting and Printmaking, San Diego State University, CA. USA