Zo Penina Baker (they/them) is a queer, disabled, Jewish-American, Ashkenazi artist, curator, and educator exploring themes of memory, ritual, and culture through community-centered social practice. They’ve worked for the last 10 years developing and facilitating programming that centers work with the arts and Jewish foodways. Zo is deeply invested in creating spaces that cultivate excitement for inquiry and a sense of play through making, talking, and always eating.
Born and raised in Queens, New York, Zo received their BFA in Sculpture from SUNY New Paltz in 2015 and MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2021. They currently live in Providence, Rhode Island.
Zo’s work has been featured in the New York Times, Vice Magazine, Digest Magazine, Pink Monkey Magazine, The Times of Israel, and the Covenant Foundation’s Sightline Journal where they were named one of “12 Jewish Artist-Educators You Should Know.”
inquiries: zpeninabaker@gmail.com