About

Cori Redstone's artworks draw upon a range of influences, from her participation in the environmental movement as an organizer to botany and human rights. Her compositions are known for playfully interrogating utopian speculation about technological mastery of the natural world.

Bio

Cori Redstone (b. Salt Lake City, Utah) received her BFA in painting and drawing in 2011 from the University of Utah and her MFA in art in 2015 from CalArts. In addition to painting, the Los Angeles-based artist is a published author on the aesthetics of social movements and the intersection of art and progressive activism. She's interested in how sustainability and cultural diversity are acculturated and codified. For almost ten years, she has worked as a strategist, writer, and art director in the climate movement, various social issues, and public policy. She has trained countless individuals on mass art builds to participate in nonviolent civil disobedience and risked arrest numerous times.

Her writing, photographs, designs, and art builds for progressive social movements have been featured in numerous films and on the front pages of many publications and news, including CNN and Al Jazeera. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Blue Mountain Center (2013). In 2020 Redstone was invited to be a visiting artist to FAWC artist residency in Provincetown, MA. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums across the United States, including the Open Studio project at the Aspen Art Museum, and the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art.

Cori divides her time between Los Angeles, California, and the Pacific Northwest.