Biography
Seth Birch born in 2000 in rural Northeast Ohio. Studied at Xavier University, in Cincinnati, Ohio from 2019 to 2023. He also Studied in Berlin at Freie Universität Berlin in 2022. Since 2024 the artist has lived and worked in Deer Isle, Maine. The artist’s work is in many collections from Cincinnati to Maine and around the world. Seth participated in the Pilotenkueche residency in Leipzig, Germany in 2024 culminating in two room scale installations at the exhibitions “Order Connection Order” and “Barbed-Wire Ghost”. He along side Artist Nihal Ahmed had their partner exhibition titled “The Great Migration” at the Neon Heater in Findlay, Ohio in 2023.
His practice ranges from Installations and Sculptures to Intimate printmaking and digital files. Seth Birch’s eclectic practice is a deep dive into strained relationships, personal and worldly. His most recognizable work is of two figures ripping their heart and mind out behind screens. Exploring the relationship of the reality of emotions to the hidden nature of modern means of sharing lives.
Artist Statement
I make art in many different sculptural mediums not limited to ceramics, stone carving, bricolage, and other methods. I like to include the viewer into installations that play with scale and interaction. I am excited to make art about relationships and natural motifs. My work has a precise meaning while remaining raw and natural on the exterior informed by the materials I am working in. Allowing the viewer to grow their own relationship with themes predation, competition, and strife. My art makes people feel a personal relationship and look inward with wonder and look outward with a worried curiosity. The subject matters I make art about are the way the built world impacts on the natural, and our mental worlds. I am also influenced by the ideas of naturalism, the beauty of art nouveau, and the blunt nature of modernism as well as Dada and expressionism for their use of current events as subject matter. This Combines as an eclectic practice of an interdisciplinary sculptor, who loves wonder.