Bio
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Skowmon
Hastanan born in Thailand lives and works in New York; received
her BFA from School of Visual Arts. She won several public art commissions
including the NYC MTA Arts for Transit, and the NYC Board of Education,
Percent for Art Commission. Hastanan exhibits nationally and internationally.
This past year she participated in the Global Feminisms exhibition at
the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center For Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, and
Davis Museum, Wellesley College, MA, as well as group exhibitions at Wave
Hill, Riverdale, Itami Museum, Japan, 2B Gallery, Hungary, and Galeria
Z, Slovakia. Her current installation, Dream, is on view at the Bronx
Museum Project Space through June 18. Hastanan is a 2007 recipient of
The Lambent Fellowships in the Arts at Tides Foundation, and the 2008
Urban Artist Initiative Grant.
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Reviews/Publications
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.