Short Biography
Ethan Shoshan is a social ecologist and multi-media artist born in Brooklyn, NY in 1980. His works utilize many platforms using visual media, performance, sound, video, installation, wearables, and food. He has written and published an imaginative post-critical novel on love as well as astrophysics research on energy disturbance with Princeton University. He is a collaborator/co-founder of the it/EQ Community Arts Collective, working to promote arts/artists in a community exchange through showcasing vital unknown artists, providing multicultural exchanges, and visibility to minority or underrepresented people. He has exhibited and performed on the streets and at the Kitchen, Envoy Enterprises, Momenta Art, Collective Unconscious, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Dixon Place, Galeria De La Raza, Le Petit Versailles, Issue Project Room, ABC No Rio, Judson Memorial Church, 92nd St Y, and other venues in New York, Washington DC, Chicago, and San Francisco. His previous projects have been reviewed in The New York Times, Art In America, BlackBook, The NJ Star Ledger, The Brooklyn Rail, Artforum, Washington Post and have aired on Manhattan Neighborhood Networks, Bronx Cable TV, and Brooklyn Cable Access. He was the recipient of grant from the Puffin Foundation for his community-based projects and participated in anti-racist trainings as a residency of Soulforce Q. He has published a special catalog of his recent project titled, I'm always thinking of you even when I'm kissing another boy. He is currently living and working in New York City as yoga practitioner, macrobiotic chef and volunteering for various community organizations.