Nadia Wooten

Information Experience Design (MA)
Portrait of Nadia Wooten, an Information Experience Design master's student, smiling and facing the camera.
Installation view of Nadia Wooten’s graduate show project, featuring a mixed-media arrangement including video projection, sculptural materials, and layered imagery. The work explores themes of ecological interdependence, power dynamics, and identity, set within a dimly lit exhibition space.
Installation view of Nadia Wooten’s graduate show project, featuring a mixed-media arrangement including video projection, sculptural materials, and layered imagery. The work explores themes of ecological interdependence, power dynamics, and identity, set within a dimly lit exhibition space.
RCA 2025 installation exploring ecological intelligence, interspecies entanglement, and systemic memory through video, material assemblage, and immersive spatial design
Untitled (Film Diary) — a poetic video work weaving personal memory, ecological imagery, and cultural symbolism to reflect on identity, loss, and entanglement across human and more-than-human worlds.
Mixed media sculpture titled Dissonant Connections by Nadia Wooten and Golden Reishi, featuring a circular Victorian-style mourning wreath made from Golden Reishi mycelium, the artist’s own hair, and naturally dyed fabric. The organic materials are intertwined and suspended, evoking themes of grief, regeneration, and ecological entanglement.
Mixed media sculpture titled Dissonant Connections by Nadia Wooten and Golden Reishi, featuring a circular Victorian-style mourning wreath made from Golden Reishi mycelium, the artist’s own hair, and naturally dyed fabric. The organic materials are intertwined and suspended, evoking themes of grief, regeneration, and ecological entanglement.
Dissonant Connections (13” x 11”) — a collaborative mixed media sculpture by Nadia Wooten and Golden Reishi. This Victorian-style mourning wreath, made from mycelium, human hair, and naturally dyed fabric, explores grief, ecological slow violence, and the regenerative intelligence of natural systems.
Wall-mounted crucifix sculpture grown from mycelium bricks by Nadia Wooten, shaped in the style of traditional Southern Christian décor. The piece reimagines religious symbolism through organic material, evoking themes of nationalism, ecological ethics, and collective interdependence.
Wall-mounted crucifix sculpture grown from mycelium bricks by Nadia Wooten, shaped in the style of traditional Southern Christian décor. The piece reimagines religious symbolism through organic material, evoking themes of nationalism, ecological ethics, and collective interdependence.
God Bless America / In God We Trust (Mycelium Crucifix) — a sculptural work grown from living mycelium bricks, reconfiguring the crucifix as an eco-political critique of U.S. nationalism, Christianity, and capitalism. The piece offers a vision of salvation rooted in interdependence, not individualism.
Installation view of Nadia Wooten’s graduate show project, featuring a mixed-media arrangement including video projection, sculptural materials, and layered imagery. The work explores themes of ecological interdependence, power dynamics, and identity, set within a dimly lit exhibition space.
Mixed media sculpture titled Dissonant Connections by Nadia Wooten and Golden Reishi, featuring a circular Victorian-style mourning wreath made from Golden Reishi mycelium, the artist’s own hair, and naturally dyed fabric. The organic materials are intertwined and suspended, evoking themes of grief, regeneration, and ecological entanglement.
Wall-mounted crucifix sculpture grown from mycelium bricks by Nadia Wooten, shaped in the style of traditional Southern Christian décor. The piece reimagines religious symbolism through organic material, evoking themes of nationalism, ecological ethics, and collective interdependence.

About

Nadia Wooten is a researcher and interdisciplinary artist whose practice bridges art, science, and social inquiry. With a background in psychology and visual communication from the University of Florida and a Master’s in Information Experience Design from the Royal College of Art, her work explores how identity, memory, and systemic structures are shaped by both human and more-than-human worlds.

Influenced by the cultural landscape of her hometown, Houston, Texas, Wooten draws on the slowed and screwed ethos as a methodology of remix, resistance, and reflection. Her projects often engage ecological intelligence—such as the relational dynamics of mycelium, water, and plant life—not just as metaphors, but as living systems that inform new ways of being, healing, and relating.

Wooten’s work is rooted in collaboration and grounded in an ethics of interdependence. Through material-based installations, photomontage, video, and storytelling, she examines power, interspecies entanglements, and neo-colonial legacies. She has contributed to applied research initiatives, community health collaborations, and public engagement projects across disciplines. Her practice continues to evolve as a tool for coalition-building, critical inquiry, and imagining regenerative futures.

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