Iris Stratman is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist who likens her current body of work as toenails clippings; gross by nature but there is a subtle beauty in those pale crescents; an embrace of fixation.

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Drawing inspiration from biology (sex), consumerism, and the collective

unconscious, she translates humanity's ceaseless pursuit of pleasure through various mediums such as video, sculpture, and printmedia. Although her body of work is heterogeneous from aesthetics to interpretation, everything she makes directly relates to the grim reality of the Anthropocene. She indulges in both the natural human inclination to create spaces of beauty, poetry, and unity while finding humor in the absurdity of what society has perverted for their own personal and financial gain. Both chaotic and refined; a true sign of the times. Recent projects have addressed aquatic inclinations, pleasurable horror, institutional syndrome, juvenile sexual imagination and fetishization of youth.

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Iris is currently a fourth year pursuing her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In addition to her studies, she works at the school as a new student orientation leader, peer mentor, and is the school's Social Connection Coordinator. On top of this, she is the founder and leader of the SAIC Horror Moviegoing and Discourse Club. Her work has been displayed at the Chicago Youth Art Exhibit at FDC Studios, Suspension Galleries- Virtual Exhibition, This Counts: Emerging Artist Showcase at the Cards Against Humanity Theater, ArtBash at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and several pop-up DIY spaces that require you to ask around for the address.

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You can reach her at irisstratman@gmail.com