Gail Dodge

Gail Dodge (b. 1985, San Francisco) is a Providence-based artist whose work encompasses video, performance, digital media, and the manipulation of traditional and nontraditional sculptural materials. Gail has an art practice and pedagogy rooted in lighthearted, exploratory approaches to researching and creating work—intentionally placing the process of making art outside the periphery of expertise or mastery. Her work reflects on the fallout from the everyday experience of being a human situated within what can feel like a hyper-consumerist purgatory. 

Gail received a BFA from the University of Arizona in 3D and Extended Media in 2013 and an MFA in Sculpture from RISD in 2015. She attended the OxBow School of Art residency in 2014 and the SOMA Summer Program in 2015. She has held teaching positions at Wheaton College in Massachusetts and since 2017 has taught courses in RISD’s Sculpture department. 

Dodge’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in cities including Mexico City, Mexico; Taipei, Taiwan; Oakland, CA; Tucson, AZ; Chicago, IL; New York, NY; Baltimore, MD; Providence, RI; Austin, TX; and Michigan City, IN.