Louisa Conrad is a visual artist whose work begins with sustained attention to a place — and to the forces, environmental and political, that are quietly transforming it. Working across photography, drawing, installation, and video, she builds projects from research: weeks in the Canadian Arctic tracing a proposed gas pipeline, months in rural Iceland following fishermen and glaciers, years on a Vermont goat farm learning what it means to know a season from the inside. From the collapse of the Chinook salmon and the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico to the deglaciation of Iceland and the dying of a Vermont pasture in October, her practice has long asked what it looks like to document something disappearing — and what forms are adequate to that task.

Conrad draws on her training in both anthropology and the visual arts to create work that resists easy resolution. The resulting projects are meditative and formally rigorous, often combining found documents, hand-drawn marks, and analog photographs into layered arguments about ecology, legibility, and loss.

She lives and farms at Big Picture Farm in Townshend, Vermont — a goat dairy and artisanal creamery she runs with her partner Lucas Farrell — where the farm itself has become both subject and collaborator.

Conrad received her MFA from CalArts in photography and media and her BA from Middlebury College in sociology and anthropology. Her work has been exhibited at Exit Art in New York, LACE in Los Angeles, Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, the Freies Museum in Berlin, the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, The Gallery at UTA in Arlington, Texas, and for many years at Anthony Greaney in Boston.