Victoria Van Dyke

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Victoria Van Dyke is a Canadian lesbian feminist artist/photographer. Van Dyke was raped when she was eleven-years-old and the burden of her memories has caused her to create some highly disturbing art pieces and frequently discusses the idea of cannibalism.

She uses cannibalism as a metaphor for evil within modern society, businessmen eating each other and eating the poor in order to make themselves fat/rich. She often titles her work with numbers, and uses models.

She spent three years in a mental asylum, where she placed herself voluntarily. She was finally released in the Spring of 2005. She currently lives in Toronto, Canada. Most recently, she made the news for chopping off her little toe, putting it in a jar and offering it to a gallery as a work of art. The gallery refused.