Bio about Forest Woodward
Forest Woodward (b.1986, USA) is a visual artist based in Missoula, Montana. He received his MFA in photography from the University of Hartford (’22) and a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (’09). His practice is rooted in an immersive and visceral connection to land. This connection is informed by an interest in edgelands; places where the shifting currents of human presence and absence are ephemerally etched on the landscapes we are at once shaping and shaped by.
Influenced by pre-colonial understandings of natural cycles and bioregional specific materials, his practice combines in-situ installations and found objects, with traditional analog process photography and darkroom printing. Using the book form, written word, and alternative installation methods, his work explores questions around ideas of permanence, control, and human relationship to the ecosystems we inhabit.
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Hannes Wanderer Book Award, 2022
University of Hartford Merit Award, 2021
University of Hartford Merit Award, 2020
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[exhibitions]
What Roots May Clutch
May 10-28 2023
Kinder Pardon Gallery
Crested Butte, CO
PhotoBookWorks [group]
March 2-26 2023
Spark Gallery
Denver, CO
Notes From a Detour [group]
University of Hartford Photography MFA thesis exhibition
8 August – 13 August 2022
Joseloff Gallery
Hartford, CT
Unknown Outcome [group]
Outcome Unknown
2021
Photo Center NW
Seattle, WA
Humble Arts Foundation and Strange Fire Collective [group]
Four Degrees: Eco-Anxiety and Climate Change
2021
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[books]
What Roots May Clutch (2022)
still image, free verse, stump.
paper, thread, varnish, stone, water,
8'' x 6.5'' x 3.25''
(artist edition)
Home to Home (2021) [group]
16mm film, projection, instrumentation, newsprint
18'' x 12''
(group)
Unknown Outcome [group]
Outcome Unknown
paper, ink, friends
ed. 500
12'' x 9''
(group)
Monte (2020)
still image, rice, straw, paper, staples, duke's words
7'' x 5''
(artist edition)
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[commissions]
American Alpine Club, AFAR, Adventure Journal, Alpinist, Camas, Collective Quarterly, Dark Mountain, Esquire, Eddie Bauer, Filson, Garden & Gun, VICE, LLBean, Men's Health, National Geographic , Newport Folk Festival, Outside, &Premium, Patagonia, PDN, Rauszeit, Sidetracked, TIME, The Sun, The Nature Conservancy, Usual Montauk.