Bio

Terra Goolsby is an Austin, Texas-based artist and professor at UT Austin. She earned an MFA in Sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design, where she was a Presidential Scholar. She also conducted independent research at Brown University with Gail Cohee, Department Head of Gender and Sexuality Studies, where she identified her obsession with the deconstruction of Mesoamerican and contemporary mythologies. 

Multiple residencies have shaped her career, including West Dean College of Sussex University in Chichester, England: Vermont Studio Center: and I-Park Foundation in New Hampshire. In addition to her status as a Presidential Scholar at RISD, Terra has received the Thantopolis Honorarium, Edward James Fellowship and Scholarship, Dimension Gallery Fellowship, and multiple grants.

Her work has been exhibited internationally at galleries and institutions such as Dallas Contemporary, Umlauf Sculpture Museum and Garden, The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Ivester Contemporary and Anya Tish Gallery. She is one of the founders of Icosa Gallery.