RESUME

BIOGRAPHY: Shori Sims (they/them)  was born in Baltimore, Maryland to two parents of African descent. A multidisciplinary artist, Sims creates dynamic and symbolically dense works that interrogate the relationships between media, the Internet, and the self. Mining the personal archives for evidence of history outside the Internet’s fetid remains, Sims examines through video, sculpture, installation, and written forms history’s unrelenting, seemingly accelerating cyclicality and the possibility of it coming to an end. They have exhibited work in group shows including at the New Art Dealer’s Alliance in New York City and with Lubov Gallery, Warbling Gallery in London, England, the RUN Gallery in Toronto, Canada, and in solo exhibitions with the  Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council. 

DEGREES:

Bachelor of Fine Arts w/ Minor in Africana Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, 2022 

Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture,  Rhode Island School of Design, 2024

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: 

Teaching Assistantships: 

Carnegie Mellon University,  “Summer Pre-College Concept Studio”, Summer 2021
Primary professor: Adam Milner (https://adammilner.com/)

Rhode Island School of Design, “Foundations of Sculpture”, Fall 2022

Primary Professors: Derrick Woods-Morrow (http://www.derrickwoodsmorrow.com/), Teresa Cervantes (https://www.teresacervantes.com/about)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

Dream of a Black Planet, Pittsburgh Office of Public Art, July 2022

Little Girl Urn, 707 Gallery, May 2022

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

Graduate Thesis Exhibition,  Providence, RI  2024

• RISD Graduate Thesis 2024

Protocinema,  NYC, New York,  2024

• Parable of the Planes: Protocinema Emerging Curator Series (PECS) 

Brewhouses,  Pittsburgh, PA 2024

• Blank Tape

Boston Ujima Project,  Boston, MA 2024

• Black Portals

The Wurks,  Providence, RI 2023

• Lizards. Kissing 

RISD Sculpture Biennial,  Providence, RI 2023

• A Cloud Passes Overhead 

Miller Institute for Contemporary Art,  Pittsburgh, PA  2022

• All for Love

Unsmoke Gallery Pittsburgh, PA  2021

• Hazard Pay

Warbling Gallery London, UK 2021

• A Tiny Bit of Fire

Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, 2021

•  Face Value

Phosphor Project Space, Pittsburgh, 2021

• Swan Song
  Brewhouse Gallery, Pittsburgh, 2020

• Roots Run Deep

The RUN Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 2021

• No Danger in Being Enacted

Augusta Savage Gallery, UMass, Amherst, 2020

• Breathing While Black 

Lubov Gallery, New York, August 2020

• Rainbow’s End

 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh,  2020

• Channel

The Powder Room, Pittsburgh, PA, 2018

• Approaching a Cusp

The Powder Room, Pittsburgh, PA, 2018

• Exquisite"

Curator,  The Frame Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, 2018

• Each/Other: Advocacy and Inclusion

Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PA,  2018

• Creations of Black Youth,

PUBLICATIONS/IN-PRINT:

Sims, Shori V. “'Touching the Untouchable':

Time as Material and the Fragmentation of Self in the Maximodern Era"”

RISD Museum/RISD Library
07/15/2024

Sims, Shori V. “Amanda Cooper; Always Beautiful (ACAB)” or “Happy Birthday Amanda!”

Sims, Shori V. “Amanda Cooper; Always Beautiful” 

Asterisk* Journal of Art and Art History and Spicy Zine, 11/2020

Sims, Shori V. “Amanda Cooper; Always Beautiful (ACAB)” or “Happy Birthday Amanda!”

Asterisk* Journal of Art and Art History and Spicy Zine, 11/2020

Sims, Shori V. “A New Kind of Freedom”

SKEW Magazine, 10/2020

Sims, Shori V. “What Can Today’s Black Lives Matter Activists Learn From the International Community?,”

Ashamed Magazine, 10/2020

Sims, Shori V. “Love in a Post-Racial Utopia: Race and Romance in Netflix’s Hollywood,”

Argade Project Magazine, 6/2020

Sims, Shori V. “An Open Letter to Participants in the Black Death Spectacle,”

Quaranzine #84, 6/2020

Sims, Shori V.  (AKA  halieadorable211) “The First Amendment and You”  Brown Recluse Zine Distro,  7/2020

Also archived by Publishing the Present: An Archive of Mutual Care and Action

Sims, Shori V. (AKA halieadorable211) “Employing the Deep Web Towards Black Liberation” Printed Matter, 7/2020

(Also published in  Brown Recluse Zine Distro, 7/2020 and SPICY Zine, 11/2020)

RESIDENCIES, AWARDS, AND GRANTS:

• RISD Graduate Fellowship, 2022-2024

• Bunker Projects Residency, Dec. 2023 

• Rhode Island School of Design Fellowship, 2022

• STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Full Grant, Nov. 2021 

• BOOM Universe Residency, October 2021 

• STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Microgrant, May 2020 

• Margaret Ockay Swenson Award, May 2020 

• STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Residence in your Room Grant, March 2020 

• Samuel Rosenberg Award, May 2018 

• Carnegie Mellon Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Summer 2018 

• International Sculpture Center -- Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award (Honorable Mention), 2021

SELECTED SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS:

RISD Graduate Studies Summer Thesis Talk: Summer 2024, Providence, RI

RISD Sculpture Thesis Talks: Spring 2024, Providence, RI

Brunch and Learn: Joint Artist’s Talk: Summer 2021, Pittsburgh, PA

Brunch and Learn: Joint Artist’s Talk: Summer 2021, Pittsburgh, PA

Brunch and Learn: Joint Artist’s Talk: Summer 2021, Pittsburgh, PA

A New Constellation: Artist’s Talk: Spring 2021, Pittsburgh, PA

Casey Droge Cultural Productions TinyTalk: Spring 2021,  Pittsburgh, PA
 

SculptureX 2021 at UMass Amherst: Spring 2020, Amherst, MA
 

The First Amendment and YOU: Summer 2022, Baltimore, MD