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Ginny Cook's work engages the intersection of language and image in order to explore decay, mortality and loss related to natural and domestic landscapes.

Ginny Cook received her BA in Art History from Emory University in 2000 and her MFA in Photography and Media from the California Institute of the Arts in 2005. Recent exhibitions include Sign/Co-Sign, curated by Light&Wire at Miami Basel, Light & Wire at Circus Gallery (Los Angeles) and Complicity: Contemporary Photography and the Matter of Sculpture, at Rena Bransten Gallery (San Francisco). Her work has also been shown at the Hockney Gallery at the Royal College of Art (London, England), LAX International Airport (Los Angeles), Steven Wolf Fine Arts (San Francisco), AndrewShire Gallery and Norma Desmond Productions (Los Angeles, Armory Center for the Arts (Los Angeles), and the National Center for the Arts (CENAR) (San Salvador, El Salvador). Cook is co-founder and co-editor of MATERIAL, a journal of artists’ writings as well as a collaborative project including readings, curated shows, screenings and other events. Her text Some Notes on Plants was included in MATERIAL Issue Two, which launches December 3, 2009 at Whitechapel Gallery (London) and in Los Angeles in early 2010. She lives and works in Los Angeles.