Aimee Odum is a visual artist, educator, and curator living and working in Salt Lake City, UT. Her mixed media sculpture and digital work investigate our human relationship with technology through the lens of the natural world. Odum received her MFA in Ceramics from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and a BS in Pre-Art Therapy from Indiana Wesleyan University. She has been invited to speak about her work at numerous institutions, including Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Virginia Commonwealth University. Odum was awarded the Sturgis International Fellowship in 2015 to support five months of studio research in Iceland. She was recently awarded the Career Advancement Grant by the Utah Division of Arts & Museums and was the 2022-23 Artist-in-Residence at Bountiful Davis Art Center. She also serves as the Co-Director of Artist Run Club SLC.
Odum has exhibited nationally and internationally with solo exhibitions at Ogden Contemporary Arts, (Ogden, UT); Arts + Leisure Gallery (New York, NY) and Random Access Space, Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY); as well as two-person exhibitions at GRIN, (Providence, RI); Elijah Wheat Showroom (Brooklyn, NY); Satellite Art Show (Miami, Florida); and Hectoliter, (Brussels, Belgium). Odum’s work is part of public collections, including the State of Utah Alice Merrill Horne Art Collection.