About

Sarah Beth Woods is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist who works collaboratively with artists, non-artists, and scholars using a variety of approaches including sculpture, social engagement, moving image and performance. Woods’ work embraces the reoccurring themes of memory, conspicuous absence and shared histories that often reveal complicated layers of meaning. Formative years spent living and teaching on the South West side of Chicago manifest in the content and aesthetics of Woods’ early work, specifically Black material culture and women’s conceptual spaces as sites of possibility and transformation.

Woods’ current collaborative project in Northern Poland is based around personal family heritage, Polish, German and Jewish histories, excavation, and cultural erasure. Woods exhibits and performs locally and internationally. Woods has recently exhibited work at NYU Florence, Florence Italy, Genesis Cinema,London, CICA Museum, Gimpo-si South Korea, Galerie Bei Koc, Hannover Germany, and in Chicago at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Threewalls, Arts Incubator at The University of Chicago, and the Design Museum of Chicago.Please email sarahbethwoods@gmail.com for full CV and other inquiries.