Selby Sohn

Noonan Building Artist

On Unceded, Yelamu Ramaytush Ohlone Land

Member of the Undercommons Reading Group

CONTACT

selbysohn@gmail.com

EDUCATION

2019-Present San Francisco Art Institute Public Education (SFAI), Art, San Francisco, CA

2022 The Mountain School of Arts (MSA^), Los Angeles, CA

2009 University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), BA Art

2007 University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland, Memorialization, Art History, Philosophy

2004 California State of the Arts Scholar (CSSSA), CalArts

PERFORMANCES

Upcoming December 29, 2024, The Tail, Almost Public / Semi-Exposed at Artists’ Television Access, curated by Tessa Siddle and Ariel Zaccheo, San Francisco, CA

Body Tubes at di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, curated by Twyla Ruby, Napa, CA

Saying I Love You to Strangers at Root Division, curated by Judit Navratil, San Francisco, CA

Mounding at ATA Window Space, curated by Tessa Siddle and Ariel Zaccheo, San Francisco, CA

Long Arms in Downtown Napa, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, curated by Twyla Ruby, Napa, CA

Long Arms and Naked Roommate opening for Harry the Nightgown and Juicebumps at 4 Star Theater, San Francisco, CA

Phygital Care Gathering at Point Reyes South Beach, curated by Judit Navratil, Point Reyes, CA

2023 Daddy Long Legs, Almost Public / Semi-Exposed at Artists’ Television Access, curated by Tessa Siddle and Ariel Zaccheo, San Francisco, CA

Always Smiling at Dream Farm Commons, curated by Ann Schnake, Oakland, CA

Porous Fields at IRL Art Camp 2023, curated by Judit Navratil, funded by an Alternative Exposure grant through Southern Exposure, Bodega Bay, CA

No Phone Day at Dream Farm Commons, curated by Ann Schnake, Oakland, CA

Always Smiling at Fish Factory Art Space, curated by Camilla Stacey, Penryn, Cornwall, UK

Inaugural EGG Performance: The Tail and Creative Straight Woman at Thee Stork Club, presented by Cone Shape Top, Oakland, CA

Escape Cube, Rebirth Performance Series at Wave Collective Space, curated by Jamila Keba and Jenna Melnyk, San Francisco, CA

Long Arms Slow Dance, Denim and Pearls at The Faight Collective, curated by Jamila Keba and Jenna Melnyk San Francisco, CA

The Tail at Liminal Space, curated by Sam Claude Carmel, San Francisco, CA

Long Arms Slow Dance at Wave Collective Space, curated by Jamila Keba and Jenna Melnyk, San Francisco, CA

2022 Mounding at Root Division, curated by Michelle Mansour and Frances Fleetwood, San Francisco, CA

Long Arms and Naked Roommate opening for Sarah Squirm at Verdi Club, San Francisco, CA

Long Arms Slow Dance at Cone Shape Top, curated by Cat Lauigan and Matt Brownell, Oakland, CA

2021 Escape Cube at Mercury 20 Gallery, curated by Kathleen King, Oakland, CA

2020 Watching You / Watching Me, Almost Public / Semi-Exposed at Artists’ Television Access, curated by Tessa Siddle and Ariel Zaccheo, San Francisco, CA

2019 No Phone Day at A|AH|D Gallery, University of Notre Dame, curated by Kyle Peets, South Bend, IN

Drone Deployment Hat at Flowers Art Gallery, curated by Elwyn Palmerton, Oakland, CA

Microfiber Towel Suit, The Devils Harp at Flowers Art Gallery, curated by Elwyn Palmerton, Oakland, CA

Sleep Anywhere Pants, RONG at Flowers Art Gallery, curated by Elwyn Palmerton, Oakland, CA

SOLO / TWO-PERSON SHOWS

2024-2025 Seeing Outside the Box at Ricky’s Tribune Barber Shop at Dream Farm Commons, curated by Ann Schnake, Oakland, CA

2024 Lately at Transmission Gallery, curated by Alana Heiss, Oakland, CA

The Centaur at ATA Window Gallery, curated by Tessa Siddle & Ariel Zaccheo, San Francisco, CA

2023 Limb Stories and Other Bodily Extensions at Dream Farm Commons, curated by Ann Schnake, Oakland, CA

Always Smiling at Fish Factory Art Space, curated by Camilla Stacey, Penryn, Cornwall, UK

2021 Time is Moving Forward at NOLA, City of Palo Alto Public Art Program, Palo Alto, CA

2019 Eye Contact at ATA Window Gallery, curated by Tessa Siddle & Ariel Zaccheo, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2024 Fever Dream at Supermarket, SFAA, curated by Annie Holleb and Maria Barbist, Stockholm, Sweden

Spring Invitational at 500 Capp, by 500 Capp Street & Berkeley Art Center, curated by Elena Gross, San Francisco, CA

Phygital Care at Root Division, curated by Judit Navratil, San Francisco, CA

Manager’s Special 2 at Mini Mart, curated by Brent Hayden, San Francisco, CA

Beyond the Personal at Edouard de Merlier Gallery, Cypress Community College, curated by Elizabeth Preger, Cypress, CA

Hot Mess at Developing Environments, curated by Ximaps Dong, San Francisco, CA

WHP Projects at Confloptus, a fundraiser for Gaza, curated by Winslow House, Oakland, CA

Khemia at The Search Art Collective, curated by Mary Evans & Julia Doszkocs, San Francisco, CA

Building 12 Exhibition, Pier 70, curated by Marti McKee and Henry Jackson, Dogpatch, San Francisco, CA

Purity x Wave at Wave Collective Space, curated by Jamila Keba and Jenna Melnyk, San Francisco, CA

2023 Melt at The Backyard Plague, curated by Manasa Thimmiya Appaneravanda and Dorian Creation, San Francisco, CA

Today is the Greatest at NIAD, by Quickest Flip, curated by Jaime Walsh and Ross Shuber, Richmond, CA

Photo of my Long Arms by Samara Alima at the de Young Museum, 28-21, de Young Open, juried by Clare Rojas, Stephanie Syjuco, Sunny A. Smith, and Xiaoze Xie, San Francisco, CA

24th Street Studio Art Pop-up at 24th Street Studios, curated by MUD and Jules Roberts-Hansen, San Francisco, CA

Psychedelic Queens at Liminal Space, curated by Sam Claude Carmel, San Francisco, CA

Pyramid Scheme at Bass & Reiner, Minnesota Street Project, curated by Chris Grunder, San Francisco, CA

Rebirth at Wave Collective Space, curated by Jamila Keba and Jenna Melnyk, San Francisco, CA

Noonan Building Artists at Daily Diver, curated by Marti Mckee, San Francisco, CA

2022 Introductions 2022 at Root Division, juried by Lian Ladia, Genevieve Quick, Leila Weefur, San Francisco, CA

No Way Out But Through at Berkeley Art Center, curated by Elena Gross, Berkeley, CA

All of Us, All of Us at Berkeley Art Center, curated by Roula Seikaly, Berkeley, CA

Disgust at East Window, curated by Todd Edward Herman, Boulder, CO

2021 One Hundred Thousand on a NASA PACE-1 Satellite Orbiting Earth, NASA, curated by Luke Idziak, Outer Space

2020 Mail Art at Dream Farm Commons, Oakland, CA

What are you currently making? Corona Virus Show at Borderline Art Collective, curated by Amy Lange, Online

Holding Space on On-Off Site, curated by Stephanie Garcés, Online

2019 Too Bad We’re Not Capitalists at A|AH|D Gallery, curated by Kyle Peets, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN

Numbers at Mission Bowling Club, San Francisco, CA

2018 RONG at Flowers Art Gallery, curated by Elwyn Palmerton, Oakland, CA

San Francisco Open Studios Exhibition at SOMArts, San Francisco, CA

San Francisco Open Studios Hubs Exhibition at Town’s End Restaurant & Bakery, San Francisco, CA

Abstraction, Michael Azgour Juried Exhibition at Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA

ARCHIVE

100,000 on a NASA PACE-1 Satellite, Archive of Astronautical Art, The Spacecraft Agency

PUBLISHED WORK

2024 Fever Dream Catalog, SFAA

2023 Cover: Always Smiling, The Racket Journal: Issue 84

In ‘Rituals of Devotion,’ the Mundane Becomes Sacred Through Collective Attention, KQED

Gonzalo Fuenmayor @ Dolby Chadwick, Squarecylinder

Remembering Sew Images Owner Cecilia Franklin and Her Influence on Bay Area Artists, KQED

2022 Patricia Piccinini’s Transgenic Fantasies, Square Cylinder

Non Plus Temps - Facts Sound Like Myths, a music video by Post Present Medium

When the Behind the Scenes Becomes the Scene, The Racket

Will We Miss When the Algorithms Were ‘Bad’? Square Cylinder

Wales Morocco, Intertwined, Third Iris

Introductions Catalog, Root Division

Disgust: Unhealthy Practices, East Window (Todd Edward Herman)

2020 Repetition, Journal.fyi

ART IN THE PANDEMIC, Journal.fyi

Anti-Gravity Suit, The Racket Journal: Issue 14

Sofie Ramos @ Guerrero Gallery, Journal.fyi

CLEAN AND ALONE, The Haven, Medium

MFA Never Catalogue, Root Division

2016 Visualizing Numbers

2011 Air Molecules, LA Telephone Book (Brian Kim Stefans)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2024 The Do List: Goths, Shocks and Alien Rocks: 10 Bay Area Halloween Events for 2024, KQED

Meet Ariel Alter | Motion Graphics Designer and Illustrator, Shoutout LA

di Rosa Day, The Press Democrat

2023 Letter From The Editor, Noah Sanders, The Racket Journal: Issue 84

2022 Alum Featured as Bay Area Emerging Artist, UC Davis Arts

Art in Space: The PACE-1 Technology Demonstration by Luke Idziak, NASA.gov

ALL OF US ALL OF US AT THE BERKELEY ART CENTER by Aline Smithson, Lenscratch

Ciencia.-Los diagramas de Feinmann, elevados a obra de arte en un satélite, Metro World News

Feynman Diagrams in Space, Pasadena Now

Los diagramas de Feinmann, elevados a obra de arte en un satélite, notimérica

Ciencia.-Los diagramas de Feinmann, elevados a obra de arte en un satélite, MSN

La misión PACE-1 incluirá una exposición de arte orbital en su fuselaje, elPeriódico

Los diagramas de Feynmann, elevados a obra de arte en un satélite, Crónica

2021 Feynman Diagrams in Space, Caltech Magazine

Who Happened? Variable West

PRS Newsletter, Pacific Rim Sculptors

:: EVENT :: Performance, Music, Sculpture, Stay Happening

2020 Permanent Transience, Transient Permanence: ideas from the second Cecilia Vicuña Reading Group by Theodore Lau, Wattis

Where have they gone?, a series of ideas from the Cecilia Vicuña Reading Group, Wattis

MSP.TV May 19, Conversations with Brion Nuda Rosch, Minnesota Street Project

MSP.TV April 21, Conversations with Brion Nuda Rosch, Minnesota Street Project

2019 No Phone Day, Mary Banas, Edition 14, Limited Edition John McNeil Studio 

Broke-Ass Stuart, Art and Bowling

CURATING

2023 Unknown Possibilities at NIAD Art Center

2021-Present Your Mood Projects

LECTURES

2024 Visiting Artist Lecture at San Francisco State Univerity

2024 Artist Talk with Cooper Salmon at Transmission Gallery

2024 Artist Talk at NIAD Art Center

VOLUNTEER

2024 Performed in Harmony of the Earth, a performance piece by Minoosh Zomorodinia at High Five, Edge on the Square, Chinatown, San Francisco, CA

2024 Studio 8 Film Festival, SFAA

2019-2021 First Exposures

2019 Interface Gallery