Bio

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 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), 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. 

 

Reviews/Publications

 


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.

 

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