Ian Gerson (he/they) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator from Houston, TX. Working at the intersections of sculpture, installation, and community engagement, their work investigates climate injustices, trans consciousness, and queer longing. Ian salvages shipping ropes from urban waterways, hand-weaving them with mylar emergency blankets, construction netting, personal clothing scraps, and other detritus into flimsy tapestries and makeshift wearables, intended as safety gear for trans people. 

Ian has shared sculptures and immersive installations at art spaces in the US and Mexico including Friends Gallery, Art League Houston, BOX 13 ArtSpace, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, The Bronx Museum, and AIR Gallery. Past residencies include ACRE, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, MacDowell, A Studio in the Woods, Galveston Artist Residency, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, among several others. Their work has been supported by the 2022 Houston Artadia Award, Houston Arts Alliance, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Foundation for Contemporary Art, and a Public Art Grant from the City of Galveston. Ian has a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin and an MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University.