Gina Osterloh (b. 1973, San Antonio, Texas, USA; lives and works in Columbus, Ohio, USA) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice includes photography, video, performance art, and steel sculptures. Her photographic work and live performances explore the complexities of looking, addressing both pleasure and pain while challenging assumed notions of identity. Fascinated by the potential of blankness to induce psychic panic, she delves into themes such as the void, orifice, the grid, and skin. With heightened awareness of color and repetitive patterns present throughout her artwork, Osterloh confronts the tumultuous world by inviting a moment of pause.

Solo exhibitions and performances include Gina Osterloh: Mirror Shadow Shape at the Columbus Museum of Art, a survey of the artist’s work from 2005-2020 (Columbus, Ohio); Her Demilitarized Zone / Image Without Weapon at MOCA Detroit; her demilitarized zone at Silverlens (Manila, Philippines); Gina Osterloh at Higher Pictures Generation (NY); Shadow Woman as part of En Cuatro Patas at The Broad Museum (Los Angeles); ZONES at Silverlens, Manila; Slice, Strike, Make an X, Prick! at Ghebaly Gallery (Los Angeles); Nothing to See Here There Never Was at Silverlens (Manila, Philippines); Group Dynamic at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), and Anonymous Front at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco). Group exhibitions include The Rose at lumber room in Portland, Oregon; Abject Object: Art, Feminism, and the Academy at The Ohio State University Thompson Library Gallery; Shrines at Silverlens (NY); Desirable Body at Hanover Project, University of Central Lancashire (Preston, UK); Multiply, Identify, Her at the International Center of Photography in New York City, Not Visual Noise at Ateneo Art Gallery, Ateneo University in Quezon City, Philippines; an idea of a boundary at the San Francisco Art Commission Gallery; Ours is a City of Writers at the Barnsdall Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in collaboration with Sharon Mizota; Energy Charge: Connecting to Ana Mendieta at Arizona State University Art Museum, Demolition Women curated by Commonwealth & Council at Chapman University, and Fragments of the Unknowable Whole Urban Arts Space OSU. Reviews of her work have been featured in The New Yorker Magazine, Art in America Aperture Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Contemporary Art Daily, Hyphen Magazine, Art Asia Pacific, Asian Art News, Art Papers, Artforum Critics Pick, Art Practical, Lens/cratch and KCET Artbound Los Angeles. Awards include a Nancy Graves Foundation Grant for Visual Artists, an Ohio Arts Council Grant for Individual Excellence, a Greater Columbus Art Council Grant, the Wayne P. Lawson Columbus Museum of Art Acquisitions Award, a Headlands Center for the Arts Artist In-Residence (Marin, California) a Fulbright in the Philippines, a Woodstock Center of Photography residency, and a Create Cultivate Grant with the LA County Arts Commission and LACE. She is an Associate Professor of Art at The Ohio State University.