Victoria de Lesseps

Victoria de Lesseps (born November 1994) is a French-American contemporary visual artist, television personality, and socialite. Early life and education De Lesseps was born in 1994. She is the daughter of Count Alexandre de Lesseps, a businessman and member of the French nobility, and Luann de Lesseps, an American reality television personality and socialite. Through her father, she is related to Suez Canal promoter Ferdinand de Lesseps. She is of French-Canadian descent on her mother's side. De Lesseps attended Miss Porter's School, a private school in Farmington, Connecticut, and the Ross School, a private school in East Hampton, New York. In 2016, she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in communication design from Pratt Institute. Career De Lesseps works as an artist, and her work has been featured on Bravo TV's reality television series The Real Housewives of New York. She also made frequent appearances on the show, although not a member of the cast. She has also collaborated with her brother, Noel de Lesseps, who is also an artist. While enrolled at the Pratt Institute, she worked as an intern for the painter David Salle. A painter and multimedia visual artist, she produces collages, photography, fashion design illustrations, silkscreens and paintings. Her work has also been exhibited at the DKNY Gallery Show in 2014, the Milk and Night Gallery Show in 2016, and at Anderson Contemporary and Solomon Arts Contemporary in 2017. Her artwork was exhibited at Art Basel's 2015 show and 2019 show in Miami. In 2016 her work was shown as part of The Untitled Space's exhibit In the Raw: The Female Gaze on the Nude.