Hillary Wagner is an interdisciplinary artist from Appalachian Ohio, currently based in Philadelphia. She maintains a socially engaged art practice and a related studio-based practice that is primarily grounded in sculpture and installation but often incorporates sound, drawing, writing, collage, performance, video, and photography. Driven by a strong relationship to materials of an elemental nature, her work emerges from her lived experience as a woman from rural, agrarian Appalachian Ohio and an acute awareness of her political identity created by a regionally defined class subjectivity. Informed by the history of extraction and exploitation of Appalachia’s land and people, Wagner’s work combats the ruling class’s deliberate, systematically-induced, sociopolitical amnesia in the region and imagines alternative futures for Appalachia and elsewhere.