Ed Woodham

Resolve, 2023

Vinyl on Wood

6 x 6 inches; framed: 6.5 x 6.5 inches

Courtesy of SHOWROOM

www.showroom.love

www.edwoodham.com

Ed Woodham is an elder Southern queer. Ed is a Manhattan-based conceptual artist, educator, producer, and curator entangled in a mélange of NYC activities across media and culture for over 45 years. He employs humor, irony, subtle detournement, and a striking visual style in order to encourage greater consideration of - and provoke deeper critical engagement - with the environment. Woodham created the project Art in Odd Places (AiOP) as a response to the disappearance of public space and personal civil liberties. Woodham has taught workshops in politically based public performances at NYU Hemispheric Institute for EMERGENYC and at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. He was a 2013 Blade of Grass Fellow in Social Engagement. = He was a featured speaker for TEDxGowanus and TEDxIndianapolis in 2014. From 2016- 2017, he was artist-in-residence at The Smith Gallery at Appalachian State University Art Department. For 2017-18 Ed was the UVA Studio Arts Board artist-in-residence at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. in 2019-20, he was artist-in-residence for the City of West Hollywood, CA. In 2022, he led the program Arts Connection's Teens Curate Teens program working with a curatorial teen team to produce a city-wide exhibition featuring 35 teens' artworks on Governor's Island.