Laurel Roth Hope (she/her/hers) is a self-taught artist born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to becoming a full-time artist, she worked as a park ranger and in natural resource conservation. These professional experiences influenced her current work, which centers on the human manipulation of and intervention into the natural world and the choices we must make every day between our individual desires and the well-being of the world at large.
Hope was a 2020 Space Program SF Resident Artist, a 2017 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow, and a 2016 Resident Artist with the Kohler Arts and Industry program in Wisconsin. In 2013 she and her sometime collaborator, Andy Diaz Hope, completed a year-long Fellowship at the de Young Museum of San Francisco examining the history of human cooperation through architecture. She was included in the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian’s 40 Under 40 exhibition in 2012. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian, the Museum of Art and Design in New York, the Mint Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 21C Museum, the Zabludowics Collection, the Progressive Collection, and the Ripley’s Museum of Hollywood, among others. She is represented by Catharine Clark Gallery of San Francisco.
Residency: February 2025 - May 2025
Art Exhibition: Friday, May 16 & Saturday, May 17 & Tuesday, May 20