Don't think you can't leave, 2021, ink on paper

SELDON YUAN

Under the influence of poetry, my work is based on a personal history where poetry/text is combined with visual art. Focusing on a personal poetics of multiple perspectives and mediums, the work extends across a spectrum of optical effects, absurdity, stoicism, existentialism, humor, surrealism, the semantics of language and Buddhist mantras that are in service of a personal narrative.

There is no end to Hunger, 2023, ink on paper

I want to be nice, but I'll die, 2022, ink on paper

Let shame be your GPS, 2023, ink on paper

Winner, 2020, ink on paper

Seldon Yuan (@seldon_yuan) is based in Brooklyn with a BHA from Carnegie Mellon University and a MFA in Visual Arts from Hunter College. He is a published writer and exhibiting visual artist with two books of poetry; published poems in Blunderbuss, Drunken Boat and No, Dear; and exhibited art at MoMA, International Center of Photography, Smack Mellon, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Arario Gallery, Rare Gallery, La Generale (Paris, France), Gallerie 69 (Oslo, Norway), Around Space (Shanghai, China) and the Museum of New Art (Detroit, MI). He has also completed a commission for Socrates Sculpture Park in 2012 and was in the Bronx Museum of Art 2013 AIM Biennial. In 2015, Yuan received the prestigious NYFA Fellowship. He has had residencies at Edward Albee, LMCC, Wave Hill and Center for Book Arts and also completed poetry workshops at Naropa University and The Bowery Poetry Club.  He also is the owner and designer of his bag company SSCY.