Ed Woodham
Ed Woodham is an elder queer independent conceptual artist, curator, producer, and educator based in NYC. He has been active in community art, education, and civic interventions across media and culture for over forty-five 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 School of Visual Arts in NYC. He was a 2013 Blade of Grass Fellow in Social Engagement. 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.