Ruth Wallen
Ruth Wallen is a multi-media artist and writer whose work is dedicated to encouraging dialogue around ecological and social justice. After working as an environmental scientist, she turned to art to pose questions beyond disciplinary boundaries, address values informing environmental policy, and contribute to the developing field of ecological art. Solo exhibitions include Bewearschole, Netherlands, Franklin Furnace and CEPA in New York, New Langton Arts in San Francisco, and many venues in southern California. She has been represented in numerous national and international group exhibitions ranging from Virgin Territory, at the Long Beach Museum of Art, to Weather Report: Art and Climate Change, curated by Lucy Lippard for the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Web site hosts have included the California Museum of Photography and the Exploratorium, where her artwork is presently on view. Her current work bears witness to the on-going die-off of trees, providing space for both collective mourning and re-evisioning ways of being and doing that support the flourishing of the life web. Active in the border region, she was a member of the multinational artist collective Las Comadres, and a Fulbright Lecturer at the Autonomous University of Baja California, Tijuana. Recent support for her work includes a Lenz fellowshop at Naropa University in Boulder Colorado. She is emeritus core faculty and former chair of the MFAIA in Interdisciplinary Arts program at Goddard College.
Residency/Fellowship
2025 Community of Practice and 2022 Revolution
Website
Location
San Diego, CA USA
© Santa Fe Art Institute / Santa Fe, New Mexico / 
