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Skowmon Hastanan was born in Thailand; raised in Bangkok and moved to New York City in 1973. She is a mixed media artist who received her BFA from School of Visual Arts in 1985. Recently, she won several public art commissions including a faceted glass design project for #2 and #5 Bronx subway lines, New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA)/ Arts for Transit, and In/Flux, an installation project for Asian Arts Initiatives, Chinatown, Philadelphia. She was also a finalist for the Southern Oregon University Library Enhancement Project, Oregon Arts Commission. In 2001, she has completed a floatglass painting project at PS 228 in Queens for the New York City Board of Education, a Percent for Art commission. Hastanan had participated nationally and internationally in group and one person exhibitions includes Center of Photography at Woodstock (NY), Pier 2 Arts District (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Pottery Workshop (Shanghai, China), Jamaica Center for Arts (NYC), Gallery 4A (Sydney, Australia), NSA Galleries (Durban, South Africa, Real Art Ways (Hartford, CT), The Bronx Museum of the Arts (NYC), The New Museum, (NYC), Momenta Art (NYC), The Rotunda Gallery (NYC), The Knitting Factory, (NYC), Artist's Space, (NYC), Fészek Galleria (Budapest, Hungary), Delta Axis Art Center (Memphis, TN), Randolph Street Gallery (Chicago), Henry Street Settlement, (NYC), and A Space (Toronto, Canada). A member of Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network, she co-curated the exhibitions "The Curio Shop, New World Order III" (Artist's Space, NY 1993), "Urban Encounters" (the New Museum, NY, 1998), and "Why Asia?" (Art in General, NY, 2001). She has collaborated with EMPOWER Foundation, Thailand, a center for the protection of the rights of women in the entertainment sector. This collaborative project was included in the exhibition "Dismantling Invisibility: Asian and Pacific Islander Artists Respond to the AIDS Crisis", 1991. She currently lives in New York. |