lacey marie woida

photographer / curator / visual artist / poet

photographer . curator . visual artist

BIOGRAPHY

Lacey Marie Woida is a self-taught photographer, mixed media artist, and writer based in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota. Her creative practice is deeply personal, rooted in lived experience, healing, and self-reclamation. As a fat, queer, disabled artist living with complex PTSD and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Lacey approaches art as a means of reconnecting with her body, identity, and voice. Her work reflects an ongoing journey toward self-acceptance and embodied presence, transforming vulnerability into visual and written expression.

Lacey has intentionally cultivated her home and studio space as a sanctuary where creativity, rest, and recovery coexist. Surrounded by her three cats and inspired by film, memoir, glittering textures, and the tactile joy of zine culture, she creates work that blends intimacy with bold commentary. Discovering zine making later in life opened new avenues for storytelling and community engagement, allowing her to share layered narratives that speak to identity, survival, and resistance.

At age forty, Lacey reached a pivotal moment of healing that reshaped her relationship to herself and her future. This period marked a renewed commitment to living fully and integrating her intersecting identities with pride and purpose. Her evolving artistic voice reflects this convergence, weaving together themes of disability justice, autonomy, and collective care.

Increasingly critical of how institutional systems exploit disabled and rare disease communities, Lacey has shifted from advocacy framed by existing power structures toward a broader disability justice lens. She is committed to addressing systemic inequities through both personal transformation and creative action. Her artwork functions as an unapologetic platform for challenging harmful narratives, centering disabled lived experience, and imagining more accessible, inclusive futures.

Through photography, fiber work, writing, and curation, Lacey continues to explore how art can be a site of resistance, healing, and connection. Her work invites viewers into an honest dialogue about embodiment, survival, and the radical act of claiming space.

QUALIFICATIONS

Lacey Marie Woida works as a photographer who documents personal and conceptual narratives through visual storytelling. She writes poetry and reflective prose that explore identity, healing, and lived experience. She produces and contributes to podcasts that center creative expression and disability perspectives. She creates fiber and mixed media artwork that incorporates tactile processes and layered symbolism. Lacey edits and produces zines that combine visual art and writing into accessible, community-focused publications. She curates creative projects and small exhibitions that highlight personal storytelling and intersectional voices.

Skills

  • photography

  • poetry

  • podcasting

  • fiber arts

  • visual arts

  • zine editing

  • curating

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