Renée Rhodes

Renée Rhodes is an artist, gardener, and arts organizer who lives four miles from the Pacific Ocean in San Francisco, California—on unceded Ohlone land that was once part of a rolling range of sand dunes. She makes social sculptures, videos, books, gardens, and walks that explore ecological empathy, mimicry, and the creation of place-based memory through somatic practices. Renée currently tends a small native plant nursery in her backyard and collaboratively takes care of a small grassland meadow in a park near her house. She is currently the Commissioning Editor of The New Farmer’s Almanac, a project of Greenhorns. Renée received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and has also shared her creative work with B_tour Festival in Berlin; at The Guesthouse in Cork, Ireland; on a Signal Fire Residency in the Mt. Hood, Oregon wilderness; at Southern Exposure in San Francisco; Di Rosa in Napa Valley; and also the Headlands Center for the Arts where she was an Affiliate Resident Artist. In 2021 and 2022, she was an artist-in partnership at Vesper Meadow Education Program.