BIOGRAPHY

Shormi Uddin is a painter, art educator and Queens native. Her work deals with the patterns of life. Whether through design, routine or tradition - she is interested in what makes us comfortable and conflicted in what we inherit from family, land and culture. She wishes to express the energies that are changing and waiting to be moved, energies that exist around us and inside of us at the same time. The scenes and patterns present in her work are influenced by moments in quiet observation and worldly matters; when physical distance between people does not feel so empty. She is influenced by architecture, designs and scapes that have existed or repeated for centuries. Her art practice involves research, conversation and reflection.

Shormi is currently a Teaching Artist with School Programs at the MoMA and HeyCurated. She previously worked as a Museum Educator at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan for 6 years and teaches filmmaking and illustration to teens in NYC with the Summer Youth Employment Program’s Project Based Learning Curriculum. She is a Queens College and LaGuardia Community College alum with a Bachelor’s Degree of Fine Arts in Studio Art.

When Shormi is not working or studying, she is spending time with family and friends, trying new food, visiting museums, reading and dancing alone at home.