Artist
SYDNEY SHEN
Sydney Shen, born in 1989 in Woodbridge, now lives and works in New York. She completed her BFA at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York in 2011. Shen uses sculptures and installations to create an atmosphere of wretched apprehension, examining the limitation of mentality through the extremity of the physical body. Exploring through various sources from historical and contemporary art history, including but not limited to medieval excruciation, supernatural horror fiction, and Internet subcultures, Shen frankensteins organic and fabricated materials such as Chinese and Western medical apparatus and instruments, graphic designed ornaments, and biological specimens. With the enticing but horrifying duality in her work, Shen manages to drag the audiences into the bizarre yet motley world she creates, directs and performs in. Her solo exhibitions and projects include: First Chair, Gallery Vacancy at Art Basel Hong Kong, 2023; Cupio Dissolvi, Gallery Vacancy at Liste Art Fair Basel, 2021; Strange But True, Queens Museum, New York, 2021; Misery Whip, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, 2021; Every Good Boy Does Fine, Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna, 2019; and Onion Master, New Museum, New York, 2019. Her works have been featured in group exhibitions at Macalline Center of Art, Beijing, 2024; Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, 2024; Jack Barrett, New York, 2023; G Museum, Nanjing, 2023; Simone Subal, New York, 2022; Lubov, New York, 2022; Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2022; 47 Canal, New York, 2022. She received the 2019–2020 Jerome Foundation Queens Museum Emerging Artist Fellowship, and was a 2019–2020 resident of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace. Shen’s works are in the collections of Asymmetry Art Foundation, London; G Museum, Nanjing; Longlati Foundation, Hong Kong; Macalline Center of Art, Beijing; M+ Museum, Hong Kong; Sigg Collection, Basel; Tanoto Family Collection, Singapore.
Sydney Shen, [Data Expunged], 2018
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Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2023 First Chair, Gallery Vacancy at Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong, CN 2021 Cupio Dissolvi, Gallery Vacancy at Liste Art Fair Basel, Basel, CH 2021 Strange But True, Queens Museum, New York, US 2021 Misery Whip, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, CN 2019 Every Good Boy Does Fine, Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna, AT 2019 Onion Master, New Museum, New York, US 2018 Poor Thing, with Kyung Me, Hotel Art Pavilion, Brooklyn, US 2018 Spring 2018 - Sydney Shen, For Seasons, Zurich, CH 2017 Four Thieves Vinegar, Springsteen, Baltimore, US 2017 What’s Worse Than the Void Is Matter, Motel, Brooklyn, US 2016 骨蘋果茶 (Bone Apple Tea), Holy Motors, Hong Kong, CN 2016 Shriek wildly and throw yourself into whatever bottomless gulf may yawn, with Aleksander Hardashnakov, Roberta Pelan, Toronto, CA 2016 Hard to Be a God, with Joel Dean, Weekends, London, UK 2015 Master’s Chambers, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, US Group Exhibitions 2024 Works in Public 2024, organized by Riverside Park Conservancy Arts Students League, Riverside Park South, New York, US 2024 An Atlas of the Difficult World, Macalline Center of Art (MACA), Beijing, CN 2024 Embodied Rituals, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, CN 2023 Plant a Weed, curated by Francesca Altamura, Jack Barrett, New York, US 2023 Looking at the Stars, G Museum, Nanjing, CN 2022 VISCERA, Simone Subal, New York, US 2022 Heaven Above Sea Below, organized by Reilly Davidson & Jacques Louis Vidal, Lubov, New York, US 2022 Blue of Noon, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, DE 2022 Impressions of the Fall, 47 Canal, New York, US 2022 Self-Dismiss, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, CN 2021 The Transparent Man, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, DE 2021 [Permission Denied], Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, CN 2021 The Pest, Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, NL 2019 Space/Reflection, Condo Shanghai, Springsteen hosted by A+ Contemporary, CN 2019 Commutiny, SIBLING, Toronto, CA 2019 Flea Market, The Loon, Toronto, CA 2019 On the Use of Unknown Objects, Aldea, Bergen, NO 2019 no body to talk to, INVISIBLE-EXPORTS, New York, US 2018 Jane Fonda, Pina, Vienna, AT 2018 The Private Collection of Water McBeer, Deitch Projects, New York, US 2018 The Changes Wrought, american medium, New York, US 2018 Note G, Chicago Manual of Style, Chicago, US 2018 PAIN IS THE MINIMUM, Condo Mexico City, Springsteen hosted by Breve, MX 2018 MOMENT I | EVER--, Shimmer, Rotterdam, NL 2017 A Most Filial Imprint, Aike Dellarco, Shanghai, CN 2017 Some Me, Into Timeworn Bits, FASTNET, Brooklyn, US 2017 Protocols Found in a Bathtub, Minibar, Stockholm, SE 2016 Closing Time – or – "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay in the 20th century", Weekends, Paris, FR 2016 Blue Plate Special, Dead Horse Bay, New York, US 2016 Left Gallery Summer Selection, with Laurel Schwulst as Perfume Area and Damon Zucconi, Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin, DE 2016 For granted, Hole Of The Fox, Antwerp, BE 2016 Safety Deposit Box, Lock Up International, Frankfurt, DE 2016 Welcome to Earth, the story so far..., High Tide, Philadelphia, US 2016 Redleaf, Sydney, Sydney, AU 2015 BLIND MIME IN REVERIE, KnowMoreGames, Brooklyn, US 2015 Unsafe at Any Speed, VIE D'ANGE, Montreal, CA 2015 [Aubergine], Et al., San Francisco, US 2015 A Rare Earth Magnet, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, US 2015 Against Automatism, fused, San Francisco, US 2015 Watching Things Burn, Springsteen, Baltimore, US 2015 ...Looking at myself from the second floor of an Italian restaurant in the Catskills..., american medium, New York, US 2015 hTERT, Hester, New York, US 2015 6th Sense, Minibar, Stockholm, SE Awards & Fellowships 2019 The Queens Museum-Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists, New York, US 2019 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Residency Program, New York, US 2019 Artist-in-Residence at Nordisk Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dalsåsen, Dale, NO 2018 Queens Art Fund, Queens Council on the Arts, New York, US Collections Asymmetry Art Foundation, London, UK G Museum, Nanjing, CN Longlati Foundation, Hong Kong, CN M+ Museum, Hong Kong, CN Macalline Art Center, Beijing, CN Sigg Collection, Basel, CH Tanoto Family Collection, Singapore, SG |