Ellie Irons is an artist and educator based in Brooklyn and Troy, New York. Working across media, from watercolor to re-wilding experiments, she combines social practice, ecology fieldwork, and embodied learning, contributing to a field she describes as critical ecosocial art. Recent work involves collaborations focused on spontaneous urban plants (weeds), with the co-founding of the Next Epoch Seed Library and the Environmental Performance Agency. Her work has been part of recent exhibitions on environmental art and activism, like The Department of Human and Natural Services at NURTUREArt in Brooklyn and Ecological Consciousness: Artist as Instigator at Wave Hill, The Bronx, New York. Her writing has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail and Landscape Architecture Futures (2015) and Inhabiting the Anthropocene blog (University of Oklahoma, 2017). She is a 2015 NYFA Fellow, a 2017 Asian Cultural Council Fellow, 2019 Eliza Moore Fellow, and 2019 Seed Box Artist in Residence. Irons received a BA from Scripps College in Los Angeles and an MFA from Hunter College, New York. She is pursuing a PhD at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, focusing on how critical ecosocial art contributes to the struggle for multispecies solidarity in an age of climate chaos and mass extinction.