Microtonal Music Studios presents the first ever performance of artist Linda Sormin.

Myymälä2 gallery
06.06.2023
at 18.30

Combining a research based approach to her own Batak heritage, Finnish heritage, with microtonal music and ceramics Linda Sormin presents her first performance as part of the Microtonal Music Studios visiting artist residency.

Canadian artist Linda Sormin explores upheaval, migration, change, and her Indonesian-Thai-Chinese diasporic experience through clay and mixed media installations. Sormin was awarded a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship (New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts), and a Canada Council grant (2021-22). She lives and works in New York City, and is associate professor of studio art at New York University. Born in Bangkok, Thailand, Sormin immigrated to Ontario, Canada with her family at the age of five. She exhibits her work internationally, including the mixed media installations “Boru Sibaso Paet, on the foam of the primordial sea” in Hokusai: Inspiration and Influences” at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA (2023), “Stream” in Ceramics in the Expanded Field: Sculpture, Performance and the Possibilities of Clay at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2021-23), and Expanded Forms, her first solo exhibition at Messums, Wiltshire, UK (2022). Recent art residencies include the European Ceramic Workcentre in Oisterwijk, the Netherlands (2021, 2023), and CSULB Center for Contemporary Ceramics in Long Beach, California (2022). Sormin’s ceramic sculptures are included in private and public collections including the permanent collections of the Renwick Gallery of the
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, the Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada, and
CLAY Ceramic Museum of Denmark, Middelfart, Denmark.

https://www.lindasormin.com/

Microtonal Music Studios and Linda Sormin’s residency in Helsinki is supported by Saastamoinen Foundation, Kone Foundation, and Myymälä2 gallery.