Zoë Greenham

Zoë Greenham is a San Francisco-based artist originally born in Sydney, Australia. Her practice investigates geological, industrial, and economic infrastructures. her paintings use diagrammatic visual language of strata, seams, and cross-sections. They reimagine surface and subsurface as interconnected systems of extraction, flow, and value. By aestheticizing what is often hidden—pipelines, aquifers, layers of resource—Her work considers how beauty can camouflage damage, and how industrial processes reshape not only land but perception and understanding.

Her sculptural practice extends these investigations into three dimensions, translating invisible systems into tactile, spatial encounters. These forms, composed of Plaster, wood, Metal, and soil, oscillate between earthworks and architectural models. By staging collisions between natural and fabricated matter, they probe how cycles of resource movement inscribe themselves into built and geological environments, asking viewers to reconsider the material and perceptual consequences of extraction.

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. In 2022, she was awarded the outstanding teaching & Dedication Award from Wilbur Wright College. She has received research and travel grants from the university of Chicago and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Connecticut, Chicago, Milwaukee, Los Angeles, and Germany. She currently teaches at Los Medanos College.