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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 creates 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 queer 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 exhibited nationally, internationally, and in outer space. Right now, my work is on a NASA PACE-1 satellite orbiting Earth. I have also shown at di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, 500 Capp Street (the David Ireland House), the de Young Museum, A|AH|D Gallery at the University of Notre Dame, Dream Farm Commons, Liminal Space, Bass and Reiner in Minnesota Street Project, 4 Star Theater, NIAD Art Center, Berkeley Art Center, Root Division, The Backyard Plague, Wave Collective Space, Cone Shape Top, the Edouard de Merlier Gallery at Cypress College, Mini Mart, Flowers Art Gallery, Mercury 20 Gallery, The Faight Collective, The Search, Thee Stork Club, ATA Window Gallery, Developing Environments, F8, Mission Bowling Club, Daily Diver, Borderline Art Collective, On-Off Site, Pacific Art League, 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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