silas long (they/them)
b. 1995
Based in Chicago, Illinois

education

Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Cincinnati (2017)

solo exhibitions

2025 dark curtain, Sometimes Space (Ypsilanti, Michigan)

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)

selected curation

2025 Night Visions, Not Not (Chicago, Illinois)

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

professional experience

Media Manager, Solway Gallery (Cincinnati, Ohio), 2017 – present
Creative & Digital Content, Kavi Gupta Gallery (Chicago, Illinois), 2024
Co-Curator, Rainbow (Cincinnati, Ohio), 2021 – 2023
Studio Assistant/Art Handler, Welly Fletcher (Cincinnati, Ohio), 2017 – 2018