Gina Siepel (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice reflects a deep engagement with place, history, queer experience, and ecology. She integrates conceptual concerns and craftsmanship with a focus on wood as a natural and a cultural material. Gina’s objects, installations, drawings, videos, and other works link aesthetic and materially-based modes of artistic production to other forms of inquiry, including collaboration, social engagement, site-based exploration, and research.

Gina is originally from rural western New York, and lived in New York City, Maine, and eastern Massachusetts, before arriving in the Connecticut River Valley of Western Massachusetts (Nipmuc, Pocumtuck, and Abenaki land), where they now live. Their works have been shown in museums and galleries nationally, including the Decordova Museum, Vox Populi Gallery, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, the Center for Art in Wood, and the Colby Museum. Gina has been a fellow/artist-in-residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Mildred’s Lane, The Winterthur Museum, The Vermont Studio Center, Sculpture Space, Hewnoaks, and the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship. They have received funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Berkshire Taconic Foundation, the Puffin Foundation, and the Center for Craft. Gina holds a BFA in painting and drawing from the School of Art + Design at SUNY Purchase and an MFA in interdisciplinary studio art from the Maine College of Art, and studied woodworking and furniture design at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship. Gina is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the MacLeish Field Station at Smith College, and has taught at Mount Holyoke College, Amherst College, Hampshire College, and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Gina is a recipient of the 2023 Teaching Artist Cohort Grant from the Center for Craft, and lives in Greenfield, Massachusetts with her partner and frequent artistic collaborator, Sara Smith.