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selbysohn@gmail.com

Selby Sohn

Noonan Building

Pier 70, Building 11, Rm. 108B

San Francisco, CA 94107

Hello, my name is Selby Sohn, and I am a Bay Area artist who makes objects and actions on the brink of utility. I consider both the tech industry’s hyperbolic usefulness and art history’s valuing of objects without utility. Most of my projects involve wearable sculptures that think largely about queering use — for example, in my piece Long Arms, I made arm extensions that allow people to slow dance from farther away. In my performance pieces, I also consider audience members to be performers.

I have a BA in art from UCLA and attended the Mountain School of the Arts in Los Angeles. I have taken many classes through the San Francisco Art Institute Public Education program and am currently in the last SFAI class. The school has shut down, but we are still going.

I have exhibited nationally, internationally, and in outer space. Right now, my work is on a NASA PACE-1 satellite orbiting Earth. I have also exhibited work at Liminal Space, NIAD Art Center, the de Young Museum, 500 Capp Street (the David Ireland House), Dream Farm Commons, Berkeley Art Center, Root Division, Bass and Reiner in Minnesota Street Project, The Backyard Plague, Wave Collective Space, Cone Shape Top, the Edouard de Merlier Gallery at Cypress College, Flowers Art Gallery, Mercury 20 Gallery, The Faight Collective, The Search, Thee Stork Club, ATA Window Gallery, F8, Mission Bowling Club, Daily Diver, Borderline Art Collective, On-Off Site, Pacific Art League, A|AH|D Gallery at the University of Notre Dame, SOMArts, East Window in Boulder, Colorado, the City of Palo Alto Public Art Program, Fish Factory Art Space in Penryn, Cornwall, UK, and Supermarket in Stockholm, Sweden.

I curate a space called Your Mood Projects in Dogpatch, San Francisco, and my writing is published in KQED, Squarecylinder, The Racket Journal, Third Iris, Journal.fyi, and the LA Telephone Book.

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