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SHASTI
O'LEARY
SOUDANT

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artist 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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