Shori Sims: March 2021
Shori Sims was born in 1999 in Baltimore, Maryland and now works in Pittsburgh, PA attending Carnegie Mellon University. She is a lifelong artist and is currently pursuing her BFA with a minor in Africana Studies. Shori is a visual artist, writer and educator focusing on anti-racist and anti-oppression pedagogy. Currently she works remotely with the Brooklyn Museum in New York City, assisting the education department as the museum’s School Programs intern.
An interdisciplinary artist, Shori finds herself grounded in representation. Essential themes of her work include the female body as a site of resistance, the blurred lines between subjectivity and objectivity, and African American identity as propagated through online space. In much of her work, Shori is interrogating memory and generational trauma. Shori is fascinated by the possibilities found within alternate universes and liminal space: both through and beyond the body. References in Shori’s work include shoujo anime, beauty-supply stores, the aesthetic language of pornoghraphy, bodegas and gas-stations: combining to form a visual autobiography of her girlhood experience.
Shori's work will be featured in the upcoming New Members Exhibition opening at AAP's Exhibition Space from March 22-April 11, 2021. Private gallery visits can be scheduled at aapgh.org or by calling 412-361-1370.
Another group exhibition Shori is a part of, No Danger in Being Enacted, is set to open this Winter in Toronto, Canada.
