Contributor

Sydney Shen’s sculptures probe contradictions such as fear and wonder, pain and pleasure, sacred and profane. She destabilizes motifs of the macabre, especially those that test the limits of the body, to evoke ambivalent states. Recent solo exhibitions include Onion Master, New Museum, New York; and Every Good Boy Does Fine, Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna. Shen is a 2019–20 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace resident. She 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.