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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 creates objects and actions on the brink of utility. I consider technology’s hyperbolic usefulness and art history’s valuing of objects without utility. Most of my projects involve wearable sculptures that queer use, reconsidering sociability and human connection — 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 and at Untitled Vol 2 in Oakland. I have an upcoming show at Lucky Break Studios. I have also shown work at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, 500 Capp Street (David Ireland House), Poetic Research Bureau, 2220 Arts, de Young Museum, A|AH|D Gallery at University of Notre Dame, Le Shed, ATA Window Gallery, Dream Farm Commons, Liminal Space, Bass and Reiner in Minnesota Street Project, Divebarn, SFAI Legacy Foundation + Archive, 4 Star Theater, NIAD Art Center, Berkeley Art Center, Folding Fields, Root Division, Divebarn, Off Hours SF, Other Places Art Fair, The Backyard Plague, Wave Collective Space, Cone Shape Top, Edouard de Merlier Gallery at Cypress College, Yucci Outlet, Mini Mart, Flowers Art Gallery, Mercury 20 Gallery, The Faight Collective, The Search, Thee Stork Club, Developing Environments, F8, IRL VR Camp, Mission Bowling Club, Daily Diver, Borderline Art Collective, On-Off Site, Pacific Art League, SOMArts, East Window in Boulder, Colorado, 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.

Land Acknowledgment

I respectfully acknowledge that I reside upon the ancestral, unceded, occupied lands of the alive and flourishing members of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples. I honor the Native people who have stewarded this land continually for thousands of years. This land was and continues to be of great importance to the Ohlone people. I acknowledge that I have benefited from the use and occupation of this stolen land. Given the ongoing, damaging injustices of colonization, I am committed to supporting Indigenous self-determination.

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