Isa Gold is a scholar and visual artist curious about the relationship between art and mental health. She explores interactions between drawing, painting, and emotion – in particular, those feelings associated with trauma (anger, anxiety, grief, etc.).

Isa, who struggles with clinical depression, creates surreal imagery to locate and reflect on the beauty, strength, and resilience of the human experience. Often inspired by the natural world, she creates ambiguous landscapes and forms that emerge where thoughts and feelings collide. Seeking practical applications for her creativity, she uses her work to engage in contemporary discourse about the human psyche, and to study how art and emotion connect us as a species.