ABOUT

Vee Speers is an internationally recognised photographic artist who has established herself in the art world with her timeless portraits. Speers’s painterly aesthetic, with a nod to classical portraiture, explores contemporary themes of identity, performance and transformation. Most of all, Vee Speers is one of those photographers whose works are instantly recognisable. Born in Australia and now living in Paris, she has been a presence in the art world for decades. Her analogue-based oeuvre has been exhibited countless times around the world, and she has had works acquired by some of the most prestigious public and private collections. She is also a member of the very exclusive club of great portraitists - an often-hackneyed art form which she attacks with a combination of flair and meticulous attention to detail, orchestrating a universe to which only she holds the key.

Speers’s work has been exhibited in prominent institutions, including the Princeton Art Museum, Norton Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Her portraits have been acquired by Sir Elton John Collection, Michael Wilson Collection, Hoffman Collection U.S. , Carter Potash Collection, Morten Viskum Collection, Alan Siegel, Lawrence Schiller, DZ Bank Germany,  Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Museum 21C, KentuckyGeorge Eastman House, Hudson Bay Company Art Fund and many private collections around the world.​

Vee Speers’s first monograph was ’Bordello’ with a foreword by Karl Lagerfeld, was published by Earbooks, Edel, and her second book ‘The Birthday Party’ was published by Dewi Lewis, UK. Her third monograph Bulletproof was published by Kehrer Verlag.