Please join us for a online talk by the artist Sydney Shen

Location: The [DIAP] Zoom Room

Thursday April 30th

Time 10:30AM – 11:30AM

The presentation is free and open to the public.

To attend and receive login information please RSVP to diap@ccny.cuny.edu

Sydney Shen’s (b. 1989, New Jersey) sculptures probe contradictions such as fear and wonder, pain and pleasure, sacred and profane. She destabilizes motifs of the macabre, especially those which test the limits of the body, to evoke ambivalent states. Her work is informed by a range of arcane to everyday sources: like Chinese opera, Medieval literature, and video games. The forms her work takes are as eclectic; she frankensteins found and fabricated materials to create abject, droll, and ludicrously poetic arrangements.
Recent solo exhibitions include Onion Master, New Museum, New York; Every Good Boy Does Fine, Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna. Shen is a 2019-2020 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace resident. Shen received the 2019 Jerome Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship, Queens Museum, New York; and the 2018 New Works Grant, Queens Art Fund, New York. She graduated from The Cooper Union in 2011.