Bio

Ian is a non-binary printmaker and writer currently based in Salt Lake City, UT (occupied Ute, Goshute, Paiute, and Shoshone lands). Their work lovingly depicts plant and animal beings through woodcut printmaking processes. Recent bodies of work center themes of death, regeneration, and the afterlife, reframing decomposition as a living, generative process through mirrored aboveground / belowground compositions.

Ian received a BFA in Fine Arts Studio from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design in 2018 and is currently pursuing an MS in Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah where they are studying human-animal relationships in the context of hunting.

Ian has participated in residency programs such as Caldera Arts in Sisters, OR and Open AIR in Missoula, MT, and exhibited work in numerous group and solo exhibitions. Ian is a recipient of the 2019 Jerome Emerging Fiber Artist Grant through the Textile Center of Minnesota and the 2020 Artist Initiative Grant through the Minnesota State Arts Board. In 2023, They presented their first solo museum exhibition, Fragments of this Living Earth, at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum in Winona, MN. Ian's writing has been published on MnArtists, a platform of the Walker Art Center, and in the book Slow Spatial Reader: Chronicles of Radical Affection edited by Carolyn F. Strauss.

I consider attention to be a form of gratitude. Sustaining an artistic practice allows me to critically consider my relationships to the broader earth community and to situate myself more fully within the intricate systems of our living planet. At its core, my creative practice centers around the connection between our human bodies and the terrestrial body of the earth, between our healing and the healing of the land. I believe that art can help shift the underlying philosophies and myths that structure our worldviews, encouraging subtle but powerful transformations in the way we relate to each other and the living earth.