Laurel Roth Hope centers her work around human intervention and manipulation of the natural world, and the daily choices we make between our individual desires and global well-being. Prior to becoming a full-time, self-taught artist, she worked as a park ranger and in natural resource conservation.
Roth Hope is a 2017 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow and was a 2016 Resident Artist with the Kohler Arts and Industry program in Wisconsin. In 2017, she and Diaz Hope created The Woulds, exhibited at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco and Catharine Clark Gallery. In 2013, she and Andy Diaz Hope completed a year-long fellowship at the de Young Museum, San Francisco, examining the history of human cooperation through architecture. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.; the Museum of Art and Design, New York; the Mint Museum, Charlotte; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; 21c Museum Hotels, Louisville; the Zabludowicz Collection, London; the Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield Village; and Ripley’s Museum of Hollywood, Los Angeles.
Her solo show Accelerating Impact opened at Catharine Clark Gallery in 2022, and focused on the intersection between ecologies, human intervention, and the ongoing global environmental crisis, inspired by her research during her 2017 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship.
Laurel Roth and Andy Diaz Hope have collaborated on projects presented at Catharine Clark Gallery since 2008, and both currently live and work in San Francisco.
