BIOGRAPHY
I’m a multidisciplinary artist working within the realms of music and visual art.
As a musician, I compose, perform, and record using a variety of instruments such as quartz bowls, tankdrums, tuning forks, strings, voices, and electronics. I craft sonic worlds that reward deep listening and attentive immersion. My recordings include Cascades (2025), Bloom Infinitum (2021), and Thin Places (2020).
I am a 2025 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Music/Sound from The New York Foundation for the Arts.
As a visual artist, I work primarily in the realms of drawing, sculpture, and animation. My animated visualizations of musical phenomena feature prominently in the Concert Theatre Works touring show, What Music Is (premiered in 2025). In June 2015, I was artist-in-residence at the de Young Museum in San Francisco for my Musical Anatomy work, featuring my drawings and sound sculptures. My work has also been presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Audiofoundation HQ in Auckland, and CounterPULSE in San Francisco. To hone my skills, I worked as a forensic artist in New York (with training at the FBI Academy in Quantico, VA), and in the Art Department of Lucasfilm’s visual effects studio Industrial Light & Magic.
I am also an educator and mentor. I have led sound-based workshops and retreats both online and in-person at venues such as Lifebridge Sanctuary and COSM.
At Harvard College I studied music, and worked with electronic music pioneer Mario Davidovsky as my thesis advisor. I earned my MFA in Intermedia in New Zealand, studying with instrument inventor Philip Dadson. At the California Institute of Integral Studies, I studied Sound, Voice, and Music in the Healing Arts with vocalist Silvia Nakkach. In 2017, I became a certified facilitator of Deep Listening®, based on the work of Pauline Oliveros. My other teachers include Timothy Hill, Iva Bittová, and W.A. Mathieu.
My clients and collaborators have included Adobe, Teatro alla Scala, the San Francisco Arts Commission, Concert Theatre Works, and the Exploratorium. My creative work has been featured in New York Magazine, The Today Show, The New Yorker, Esquire, NY Daily News, SF Weekly, Food Network, and Guinness World Records. I am based in the Hudson Valley of New York.
If you’d like to work with me, get in touch.
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Contact: sf@shawnfeeney.com