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SHASTI
O'LEARY SOUDANT |
 Born 1967, New York, NY
Shasti O'Leary Soudant is a transdisciplinary artist, designer and writer. In her art practice, she uses a wide range of media and material to create immersive experiences that concern perspective, hidden forces, randomness, iterative systems and transformation, in an attempt to initiate meaningful engagements with the public. She has travelled extensively, exhibited internationally, and is currently living and working in Buffalo, New York. EDUCATION 2011 MFA, Visual Studies, The State University of New York at Buffalo 1991 BFA, cum laude, Sculpture and Photography, Purchase College, State University of New York 1986 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY (filmmaking and animation coursework) SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS 2019 UNTITLED for DIA Urban Arts Project Phase II (public art commission) City of Jacksonville, FL 2018 Do Not Mistake Our Softness for Weakness (solo exhibition) Eleven Twenty Projects, Buffalo, NY Chrysalis Gate (architectural collaboration with CannonDesign) Buffalo, NY 2017 Panoptic Flip (solo exhibition) Box Gallery, Buffalo, NY Beat Blossom (public art commission with musician Cyro Baptista) Artpark Lewiston, NY Gut Fora (public art commission) Albright-Knox Public Art Initiative, @NFTA Station, Buffalo, NY 2016 900 Moons is Not Enough (architectural collaboration with CannonDesign) Buffalo, NY Wish Field (sculptural commission) Roswell Park Clinical Sciences Center, Buffalo, NY 2015 Eye to Eye: Looking Beyond Likeness, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo NY Weeping Wall (public art commission) The Savarino Companies at 500 Seneca, Buffalo NY Array, Exhibit A, Corning, NY 2014 Performance Anxiety: HALFLIFE, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, commissioned public art performance with 10,000 participants, exhibition (curated by Heather Pesanti), Toronto, ON Displacement: Shooting Through History, (with Courtney Grim), Trans Empire Canal Corporation, Burchfield Penney Arts Center, Buffalo NY Performance Anxiety: Halflife, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, commissioned performance w/10,000 performers, and exhibition, Toronto, ON 2013 Let There Be Light/Interference, (public art commission) Burchfield Penney Art Center USEUM, Buffalo, NY Echo Art Fair, Buffalo NY Unreliable (S)pace, collaboration with Kyle Butler, Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo NY 2012 Balloon Gods, @ Showoffs, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo NY Echo Art Fair, Buffalo NY Beijing/Buffalo: Translation, Today Museum, Beijing, China Buffalo/Beijing: Translation, University of Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo NY 2011 Sex, Time Decay, (solo exhibition), Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo NY Killed Covers, A Selection of Rejected Book Jackets, The New York Times, New York NY 2010 Gender Bending Buffalo, @ Stimulus, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo NY Beyond The Multitude, Blink 464, Buffalo NY Attention: Artgoers, Artspace Gallery, Buffalo NY Zoetrope, University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo NY Big Night, Just Buffalo Literary Center, Buffalo NY SELECTED COLLECTIONS Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NYTA), Buffalo, NY Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY The Savarino Companies Judith Goodyear, Palm Beach, FL Julian Sleath, Toronto ON Allison Duchaine, Toronto ON Dorothy & Richard Bergman, Amherst NY Mr. & Mrs. Ted Pietrzak, Buffalo NY Jackie Davis, Los Angeles, CA Heather Pesanti, Austin TX Gerald Mead, Buffalo NY Ralph Delmont, Buffalo NY Lawrence Leaven & John Carlino, Buffalo NY Anthony Greco, Boulder CO AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES 2018 Vermont Studio Center Residency 2017 Creative Arts Initiative Grant, (Collaboration with musician Cyro Baptista) University at Buffalo & Artpark 2017 Inaugural Rigidized Metals Corporation Artists' Residency, Buffalo, NY 2015 Guapamacatáro Art & Ecology Residency, Michoacán, Mexico 2014 Artist of the Year, Arts Services Initiative of Western New York 2012 Regional Artist Access Residency, Squeaky Wheel 2011 Excellence in Teaching Award, honorable mention, University at Buffalo 2011 Exchange Residency, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China 2010 Dean's Fellowship, University at Buffalo, College of Arts & Sciences 2009 CEPA Solo Exhibition Award, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo NY 2009 Dean's Fellowship, University at Buffalo, College of Arts & Sciences 2007 AIGA 50 Books / 50 Covers (for Pharmakon, Penguin Group USA, NY) 2005 AIGA 50 Books / 50 Covers (for Eleanor Rigby, Simon & Schuster, NY) PUBLICATIONS, LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS 2015 BABEL, Facilitator for Patti Smith's Just Kids Discussion, Just Buffalo Literary Center, Buffalo NY 2014 Karen Finley's Artists Anonymous, Designated Artist Testimonial, Hallwalls Contemporary ARts Center, Buffalo NY "Haunted Peripheries," Block Club Magazine, No. 37 "Borders" (2014): 54-25. "The Siege," Block Club Magazine, No. 36 "Shhhh" (2014): 56-59. 2013 "The Sacred and the Banal" with curator Heather Pesanti, ZING magazine, No.#23 (2013): 207-221. 2012 Why Media Literacy Matters, Squeaky Wheel Buffalo Media Resource (curriculum program) 2011 The Dionysian Divinity of Rebecca Horn, essay, University at Buffalo Yin Warrior, essay, University at Buffalo The MILF Manifesto, essay, University at Buffalo 2010 Cyborg Theory, Cyborg Practice (limited edition monograph, self-published) 2008 Massaging the Letterform, TypeCon presentation, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo NY 2007 Stop Believing What You See, Pecha Kucha Buffalo vol. 5 presentation, Hallwalls Cont. Arts Center, Buffalo, NY 1999 "Knot," Letterbomb Literary Magazine, Los Angeles CA FILM / VIDEO 2015-23 The Clock Years, single-channel broadcast video, 4 hours, in 8 episodes 2014 Letti Cuts, single-channel video, 13 minutes 2011 Ception (Come, Bood, Milk), single-channel video, 4 minutes, looping 2010 Kat Cuts, single-channel video, 7 minutes Focus, single-channel video, 5 minutes Ruby Does Pollock, single-channel video, 6.5 minutes Daisy Chain, single channel video, 5 minutes 2005 Ruby Goes to Towne, 8mm film, 5 minutes 2003 Ten and a Half Weeks, single-channel video, 12 minutes The Drop, 16mm film, 5 minutes BIBLIOGRAPHY 2014 Colin Dabkowski, "13 Highlights from Nuit Blanche," Buffalo News, October 4, 2014 Matt Galloway, Interview, "Nuit Blanche 2014: 3 must-see installations," CDS NEWS, Toronto, ON, October 4, 2014 Colin Dabkowski, "Buffalo artists play starring role at annual Toronto art fesitval," Buffalo News, October 4, 2014 Colin Dabkowski, "Buffalo artists take center stage at Toronoto's all-night art fest Nuit Blanche," Buffalo News, September 30, 2014 Elizabeth Licata, "At center stage in Toronto-Buffalo," Buffalo Spree Magazine (blog), Talk About Arts, Annual, October 6, 2014 Amy Kitchen, "Some Untimely Thoughts: Nuit Blanche," HOMEJAMES (blog), October 9, 2014 Elizabeth Licata, "All night long," Buffalo Spree Magazine, Vol. 48, No. 10 (October 2014): 41, 44-45 Bruce Adams, "Artists to Watch," Buffalo Spree Magazine, Vol. 48, No. 3, Art in WNY cover story (March 2014): cover, 47. 2013 John Paget, "ART BFLO," short documentary film for Visit Buffalo Niagara, November 2013 Paddy Johnson, "The Echo Art Fair, Day Two: Is This For Sale?," Art F City (blog), September 8, 2013 Colin Dabkowski, "Five Art Videos from 2013," Buffalo News (Gusto blog), December 23, 2013 Jack Foran, "Unreliable Narrators," Artvoice, Vol. 12, No. 25 (June 20, 2013). Colin Dabkowski, "A Closer Look at Let There Be Light (Interference)," Buffalo News (video). March 9, 2013 Rachel Fix Dominguez, "Let There Be Light: a smart new installation at the Burchfield Penney's Useum," Buffalo Spree Magazine, May 2013 Lydia Dominick, Interview, "Let There Be Light," WGRZ-TV News, Buffalo, NY, May 11, 2013 2009 Kay Monaco, "Buffalo's cover Girl: Shasti O'Leary-Soundant," Buffalo Rising, March 19, 2009 2006 Cory Flintoff, "When a Low Point Becomes a Turning Point," Morning Edition, StoryCorps, National Public Radio, February 17, 2006 TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2017- 18 Clinical Assistant Professor, University at Baffalo 2015 Instructor, D'Youville College, Basic Design (studio) 2014 Instructor, University at Buffalo, Typography 2 (studio) 2012 Lecturer, University at Buffalo, Visual Theory, Aesthetics & Criticism (lecture, 160 students) Instructor, University at Buffalo, Photography in the Extended Field (studio) 2011 Guest Lecturer, University at Buffalo, Visual Theory, Aesthetics & Criticism (lecture) Teaching Fellow, Instructor of Record, University at Buffalo, Art and the Everyday (lecture & studio) 2010 Teaching Fellow, Instructor of Record, University at Buffalo, Digital Reproduction Processes (studio) 2009 Teaching Fellow, Instructor of Record, University at Buffalo, Visual Semiotics & Rhetoric (lecture & studio) Teaching Assistant, University at Buffalo, Visual Theory, Aesthetics & Criticism |
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