Sarah Max Beck was born in Tacoma, Washington in 1984. Beck’s body of work mostly builds on symbiotic, closed-loop human nutrient systems; redefining waste as resource; and comments, often wryly and self-consciously, on the parallels of current elective human influence on the planet and a parasitic infection of a host. A background in agriculture became tangled up with a sculpture degree until a creative practice with compost, resource recovery, fermentation, permaculture, and post-consumer plastics all amalgamated into bioart. Beck is co-founder of studio Hydrostatic, a collaborative bioart lab in NYC.

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