Gail Wight is a visual artist constructing biological allegories. Working across mediums – sculpture, video, interactive electronics and print – her art teases out the impacts of the life sciences on the living: human, animal, and other. The interplay between art and biology, theories of evolution, deep time, animal consciousness, and the vagaries of biochemistry are themes that have, over the past three decades, become central to her work. Wight’s recent works of art have turned to California’s wild northern coastline as a vibrant repository of these themes.

Gail Wight holds an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute where she was a Javits Fellow, and a BFA from the Studio for Interrelated Media at Massachusetts College of Art. She has exhibited her works internationally in both solo and group exhibitions, and her art has been collected by numerous institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Yale University, and the Centro Andaluz de Art Contemporaneo in Spain. Gail Wight is a professor of Art Practice in Stanford’s Department of Art & Art History, where she focuses on experimental media and hybrid technologies.

contact: gailw@stanford.edu