Bio
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Skowmon
Hastanan born in Thailand, lives and works in New York; received
BFA from School of Visual Arts. Hastanan exhibits nationally and internationally.
She participated in group exhibitions, including The Women’s Building
in San Francisco, the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center For Feminist Art, Brooklyn
Museum, Davis Museum and Cultural Center (Wellesley College, MA), Wave
Hill (Riverdale NY), The New Museum. Artist's Space (NYC), Itami Museum
(Japan), 2B Gallery (Hungary), and Galeria Z (Slovakia), as well as solo
shows at the Bronx Museum Project Space, the Longwood Art Project, and
the Jamaica Art Center. Recently, she was included in Amnesty’s
1 in 3 Art Exhibit, a traveling show in California for Stop Violence Against
Women Campaign, organized by Amnesty International. Hastanan won several
permanent public art commissions including the NYC MTA Arts for Transit
(2005), and the NYC Board of Education, Percent for Art Commission (2001).
She was awarded a research and an installation commission from the Bronx
Museum of the Arts for The Grand Concourse at 100, a historical timeline
project (2009), and a temporary public art installation for Asian Arts
Initiative with grants from The Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, The
Pew Charitable Trusts and the Pennsylvania Humanities Council (2005).
Hastanan is a recipient of the Civitella Ranieri Fellowship and Residency,
Umbria, Italy (2010), the Urban Artist Initiative/New York City Fellowship
(2008), and The Lambent Fellowships in the Arts at The Tides Foundation
(2007-2009). Her works are in the collection of the Davis Museum and Cultural
Center, Wellesley College, MA and private collections.
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Reviews/Publications
Morgan,
Susan. "Skydancers: Thai Women Artists Who Dances Across Cultural Boarders…",
2010.
"Intersections: The Grand Concourse at 100"
Edited by Antonio Sergio Bessa
The Bronx Museum of the Arts and Fordham University Press, NY. November 2009.
Exhibition catalog.
Francis, Jacqueline. "Slavery and Abolition Vol. 30, No. 2, The Brooks
Slave Ship Icon: A 'Universal Symbol'?",
San Francisco State University (California State University), CA. pages 327-338
CA. June 1, 2009
Chan,
Sewell. "Looking Back at the Grand Concourse’s First Century"
The New York Times, March 18, 2009
Chang,
Alexandra. "Envisioning Diaspora Asian American Visual Arts Collectives
from Godzilla, Godzookie to The Barnstormers",
Timezone 8 Editions and Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University,
2008-9, pages 96, 97, 186-189
Genocchio,
Benjamin. Attractive and Accessible, But Is That
All There Is?
The New York Times, December 23, 2007
Heartney,
Eleanor. Worldwide Women, Art in America, June/July 2007,
pages 161, 162
Kee, Joan. Global Feminisms New Directions in Contemporary Art, Edited by Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin, Exhibtion catalogue, Brooklyn Museum, 2007. Pages 110-12, 205, 274
Ramoran, Edward. Chinatown In/Flux Exhibition catalogue, published by Asian Arts Initiative’s Philadelphia, PA, 2006
Hagen, Susan. Chinatown Revisited, Philadelphia City Paper, November 2005
Gammage,
Jeff. Glimpses of Chinatown, The Philadelphia Inquirer,
October 2005
City Art New York’s Percent for Art Program. Page 201.
City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs, and Merrell Publishers, 2005.
Art
in General On Canal, Digital Catalogue 2004.
www.artingeneral.org
Demavivas, Karen. "An Exhibition of Five Contemporary
Thai Artists", The Brooklyn Rail, August 2003.
www.thebrooklynrail.org/arts/sept03/thai.html
Asian American Arts Alliance, Newsletter,
July-September 2003. www.aaartsalliance.org
Danuta, Pattara. "Feminist Issues Cross Culture
Through Art, Exhibition of Thai-American artist in New
York Explores Trafficking of Thai Women", Bangkok
Post, Thailand, Thursday, May 1, 2003.
www.bangkokpost.com/en/Outlook/01May2003_out55.html
Demavivas, Karen. "En route from Brooklyn", The
Nation, Thailand, May 11, 2003.
www.nationmultimedia.com/page.arcview.php3?clid=18&id=78506&usrsess=1
Kee, Joan. Tradeshow New Currents in Recent Asian
American Art. 2003. Exhibition Catalogue.
Johnson, Ken. "Global Priority", The New York Times,
November 29, 2002.
Stern, Andrea Barrist. "Sharp Focus Center for
Photography Celebrates 25th Anniversary," Woodstock
Times, August 8, 2002. www.ulsterpublishing.com and
www.cpw.org
MacKenny, Virginia. "DURBAN: Bodies of Resistance at
the NSA". www.artthrob.co.za, South
Africa, July 2000.
Bodies of Resistance, Visual AIDS, January 2000.
Exhibition Catalogue.
Cotter, Holland. "Defiantly Confronting The Plague,"
The New York Times, January, 2000.
Zimmer, William. "Thinking Globally Artists on AIDS,"
The New York Times, December 26, 1999.
Cotter, Holland. "Urban Encounters," The New York
Times, August, 1998.
Carr, C. "From Boho to Soho, On Edge Artists
Collectives Have a Recollective Moment," The Village
Voice, August, 1998.
Cohen, Billie. "Guerrilla Tactics, Around Town
Museums," Time Out Magazine, NYC, July, 1998.
Murdock, Robert. "Trial By Water", Review, December
1,1997.
Raynor, Vivien. "In the Bronx, Geometry and
Expressionism". The New York Times, March 19, 1995.
Time Capsule A Concise Encyclopedia by Women Artists,
edited by Robin Kahn, Creative Time SOS Int'l, 1995.
McKenna, Shelia. "Bronx Profile/Skowmon Hastanan", New
York Newsday, February 11, 1994.
Kwon, Sowon. "Here and Now, Now and Then". Longwood
Arts Journal 1992-1993, pages 14-15, Bronx Council on
the Arts, 1993.
Hess, Elizabeth. "The White Rabbit, (Among Other
Alternative)", The Village Voice, December 17, 1991.
Raynor, Vivien. "Lehman Shows "Products‚ of Bronx
Alternative Spaces", The New York Times, May 1987.
page 32.
Zimmer, William. "Two Group Shows at Bronx Museum",
The New York Times, June 1986.