Renée Rhodes

Renée Rhodes is an artist and arts organiser based in San Francisco. Working across social sculpture, video, books, gardens, and guided walks, her practice explores geological empathy, mimicry, and place-based memory through somatic and embodied practices. Her work investigates processes of disappearance, becoming, and ecological interdependence, often framing mimicry as a strategy for intimate survival between humans and ecosystems.

Recent projects include a multimedia exploration of the source-to-sea journey of San Francisco’s sand and studies of meadow mimesis developed in collaboration with the Vesper Meadow Education Program. Her work has been presented internationally and across the Bay Area, including at B_Tour Festival (Berlin), Southern Exposure, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SOMArts, di Rosa, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and during a Signal Fire Residency in the Mt. Hood wilderness. In 2022, she was an artist-in-residence at Lucid Art Foundation during its climate change research year. She holds an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute and has additional training in ecological restoration and gardening.