Gudrun Lock

Gudrun Lock was born in Berkeley, California and grew up in Montreal, Canada. Since the mid 1990s Minneapolis has been her home. She makes artwork using photography, drawing, painting, sculpture, performance, installation, and social practice strategies. She has installed pieces in foreclosed homes, empty storefronts, brownfields, the Atlantic Ocean, and a hole in her backyard. Interested in engaging human and other-than-human partners, a long-term focus aims to revitalize the buffers of active rail land. In 2023 she became an artist in residence in an experimental interdisciplinary graduate program focused on water, energy, and materials circularity in the engineering department at the University of Minnesota. She has worked at MCAD since 2012.