Betsy Odom was born in Armory, Mississippi in 1980 and currently resides in Chicago. She holds a BFA in Interdisciplinary Art from the San Francisco Art Institute and a MFA in Sculpture from the Yale University School of Art. She has exhibited nationally at the Lawndale Art Center in Houston, Hyde Park Art Center, Women-made Gallery, Corbett, vs. Dempsey and the Broad Museum at Michigan State University.