Photo by Kelsey Dillow (@kelseytiaraphoto), Knoxville TN 2022
Zoe Brester-Pennings is an interdisciplinary artist and educator currently living and working in Wisconsin. Her work ranges from print, sculpture, photo, and video art, exploring concepts of beauty, femininity, and humor. Her recent work explores myth through the utilization of a performed persona, Buck Wilde. In 2023 she received her MFA in Printmaking from University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and was the recipient of the Betsy Worden travel scholarship to attend a residency in Wroclaw, Poland. In 2018 she received her BFA with an emphasis in Printmaking from Sonoma State University graduating cum laude and with department distinction. Prior to starting her graduate studies, she worked as a part-time elementary school art instructor in her hometown of Healdsburg, California. She has exhibited works nationally and internationally and is the current Printmaking Artist in Residence at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.