MFA Fine Arts presents a talk by Sydney Shen.

Sydney Shen (b. 1989) is a New York-based artist. She received her BFA from The Cooper Union in 2011. She received the 2019–20 Jerome Foundation Queens Museum Emerging Artist Fellowship and was a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Program resident. Her first public sculpture, SBNO (Standing But Not Operating), was installed this fall at Riverside Park South. Select solo exhibitions include “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). Shen is co-author of Perfume Area, a book of prose-poetry published by Ambient Press, New York (2015).

Talks is a series of lectures by artists, writers and critics presented by MFA Fine Arts. Talks are held on Tuesdays at 3:00pm at 133 West 21st Street in Room 101C and on Zoom. Participation in the Q&A is limited to MFA Fine Arts students attending the lecture in person.

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