Colleen Plumb creates photographs, videos, and installations that investigate the contradictory relationships people have with the more-than-human world. One of her recent projects, Invisible Visible, published in Orion Magazine, reflects upon the industrial food system and meatpacking industry through the bones and bodies of chickens. Her 2021 installation Surveilling Snow Lily was highlighted as a Chicago must-see in ARTFORUM gallery guide. Her first photography monograph, Animals Are Outside Today (Radius Books, 2011), critically documents our ambivalent dispositions towards animals. Plumb’s recent photography book, Thirty Times a Minute (Radius Books, 2020), examines the plight of captive elephants.
A third-generation Chicagoan, Plumb grew up near Lake Michigan, seeking any wildness she could encounter in that urban space: yard birds, tree climbs, lake storms. Continuing this search, she explores the notion of interconnectedness in order to increase empathy and unity across species. Through partnering with nonprofit organizations advocating for the more-than-human world, Plumb seeks to shift dialog around what is humane. She teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is represented by McCormick Gallery in Chicago and Dina Mitrani Gallery in Miami.
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- ColleenPlumb.com
Visit Colleen Plumb’s website to learn more about her artwork. - Invisible Visible
View Colleen’s artwork at Orion Magazine. - Thirty Times a Minute
Read and view Colleen Plumb’s latest book.
