Silas Long (b. 1995) is a multimedia artist and curator living and working in Chicago, Illinois. Their practice explores the power of horror through expressions of anxiety, unconscious desires, and alternate worlds. Blending textiles, illustration, and sculpture, they investigate the psychological influence of the image mediated environment.

silas@silaslong.com
@silaslong_

education

Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Cincinnati (2017)

solo exhibitions

2024 interior ruin, Basketshop (Cincinnati, Ohio)

2017 Breakdown, 2200 Victory Pkwy (Cincinnati, Ohio)

two-person exhibitions

2023 Distortions, Mean Street Gallery (Cincinnati, Ohio)

selected group exhibitions

2023 Mirroring, Dream Clinic Project Space (Columbus, Ohio)
   Infinite Life, virtual exhibition, curated by Stone House Art Gallery (Detroit, Michigan)

2022 Autogenesis, Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati, Ohio)

2018 The Temperature #7, River House Arts, Curated by The Neon Heater (Toledo, Ohio)
   Companion Pieces, Anytime Dept. (Cincinnati, Ohio)

2017 Hanging on, Safe Space (Cincinnati, Ohio)
   Sewn Façades, Solway Gallery (Cincinnati, Ohio)
   Director's Choice Exhibition, Reed Gallery (Cincinnati, Ohio)

2016 At Capacity, 840 Gallery (Cincinnati, Ohio)
   Better Than Art, 3026 Bathgate Street (Cincinnati, Ohio)

2015 Scrumptious, 840 Gallery (Cincinnati, Ohio)
   International Sculpture Day, Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park (Hamilton, Ohio)

selected curation

2024 HEAT, Not Not (Chicago, Illinois)

2023 Kelly Agius, Welcome to the Underworld, Rainbow (Cincinnati, Ohio)
   Caro Prados Burks, Softly & Tenderly, Rainbow (Cincinnati, Ohio)

2022 Alexis Mabry, Good Morning Cruel World, Rainbow (Cincinnati, Ohio)
   Aliyah Salmon, I Said What I Said, Rainbow (Cincinnati, Ohio)

2021 Dominic Rabalais, Neo-Virginity, Rainbow (Cincinnati, Ohio)
   Ava Wanbli, Sertraline Dolls, Rainbow (Cincinnati, Ohio)
   Welly Fletcher, Elephant Shoe, Rainbow (Cincinnati, Ohio)

2019 hybrid interference, group exhibition, xtudio (Cincinnati, Ohio)
   slush pit, group exhibition, xtudio (Cincinnati, Ohio)

2018 Sm0k3scr33n, group exhibition, xtudio (Cincinnati, Ohio)
   pulling up, group exhibition, xtudio (Cincinnati, Ohio)

awards

#3 Best Art Gallery - Rainbow, CityBeat (2023)
Director’s Choice - 3D Media (2017)

press

"A Review of Artist Run Spaces at the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati," Sixty Inches from Center, September 15, 2022

"Collaborative Art Exhibit Opens at Camp Washington's Anytime Dept," CityBeat, June 6, 2018

professional experience

2017 – present Media Manager, Solway Gallery (Cincinnati, Ohio)
2021 – 2023  Co-Curator/Photographer, Rainbow (Cincinnati, Ohio)
2017 – 2018  Studio Assistant/Art Handler, Welly Fletcher (Cincinnati, Ohio)