Forrest Solis received her BFA in 2001 from the Kansas City Art Institute and MFA in 2003 from Indiana University. As a graduate student, Solis was awarded the prestigious Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship. Solis taught as an Assistant Professor of art at DePauw University in Indiana until 2006 and is currently an Associate Professor and Associate Director in the School of Art at Arizona State University. She exhibits nationally and internationally and is represented by Sugarman-Peterson Gallery in Santa Fe, NM, and Gebert Contemporary Gallery in Scottsdale, AZ. Solis is a figurative painter whose work explores the female experience from a psychological perspective. Her current body of work looks at issues of desire and death through an autobiographical lens and takes a critical look at the cultural expectations of mature sexuality. In 2015, Solis founded Creative Push, an ongoing art and oral history project about birth.