Zoë Greenham is a San Francisco-based artist originally from Sydney, Australia. Her practice investigates geological, industrial, and economic infrastructures through painting, drawing, and sculpture. Using the visual language of strata, seams, and cross-sections, she reimagines surface and subsurface as interconnected systems of energy, flow, and value. Her paintings and drawings reveal what is often hidden—pipelines, aquifers, resource veins, and other networks—to consider how industrial processes shape our relationship to land, materials, and perception.

Working with plaster, wood, and metal alongside soil, sand, and rock, she creates tactile sculptures that oscillate between earthworks, architectural models, and speculative landscapes. Found and fabricated materials collide within layered structures that evoke the movement of resources through both geological and built environments. Across forms, her work explores the relationship between what lies beneath the earth and what rises above it. Layering, channeling, and flow become a shared visual language through which geological formations and industrial systems mirror one another. Her work considers how extraction and infrastructure become embedded in the landscapes we inhabit, and how the ordered surfaces of contemporary systems can obscure the material processes that sustain them.

She received her BA from Wesleyan University and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has held faculty appointments at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Harold Washington College, and Truman College. She has received grants from the University of Chicago, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and most recently, a Madrone Artist Grant in 2026. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Connecticut, Chicago, Milwaukee, Los Angeles, West Virginia, San Francisco, and Germany. She currently teaches at Los Medanos College.