Photo by David Schmitz
Linda Sormin
Meet our artist
Guest Artist
- Visual Arts
About
Region
USA
Born in Bangkok, Thailand, Linda Sormin moved to Canada with her family at the age of five. Sormin’s sculptures and site-responsive installations embody the vulnerable and fragmentary nature of her diasporic experience. Recent exhibitions include two large-scale installations in Ceramics in the Expanded Field: Sculpture, Performance and the Possibilities of Clay at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2021-23), and Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (2023). Her first solo museum exhibition will open in November, 2025 at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto. Sormin lives and works in New York City.
Since the early 2000’s, Sormin has established a distinct visual and material language, using raw clay, fired ceramics, found objects, and interactive methods. She integrates writing, video, sound, and hand-cut paintings with clay, metal and wood. Sormin’s research and writing cast light on how her work has always been influenced – though at times unwittingly – by cultural practices in her family histories rooted in Thailand, China, and Indonesia. She has taught visual art at Emily Carr University, Rhode Island School of Design, Sheridan College, Alfred University, and currently New York University, where she is a tenured Associate Professor of Studio Art and Head of Ceramics. She holds a BA in English Literature (Andrews University,1993), a Diploma in Craft and Design (Sheridan College, 2001) and an MFA in Ceramic Art (Alfred University, 2003).
Sormin’s work is included in private and public collections including the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC), Gardiner Museum (Toronto), CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art (Middelfart, Denmark), Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, NY), Victoria & Albert Museum (London), Arizona State University Museum, (Tempe, AZ), World Ceramic Exposition (Gyeonggi Province, Korea), and Alfred Ceramic Art Museum (Alfred, NY).
Programs:
- Marcus Exhibition When the World is Beautifully Strange (2025)