Sylvan Essence | Shoshana Fink

Using image, sound, and scent from the Hoh, Sylvan Essence employs photography, sculpture, sound, and olfactory elements, allowing the viewer to see, hear, and smell the entangled web of relationships and complex conversations that make up the arboreal universe.

About the Artist:
Shoshana Fink is a Minneapolis-based artist and educator whose practice focuses on photography, sound, olfaction, and installation. For fifteen years, she worked as a Los Angeles-based film producer and director, returning to Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2018. In 2022, Shoshana graduated with an M.F.A. in visual studies from MCAD. She has served as an Art Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin River Falls, as adjunct faculty in Media Arts at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and as a teaching artist in residence at the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain at the University of Minnesota. In 2021, she attended Mildred’s Lane residency program in Beach Lake, Pennsylvania. In January of 2024, she was an artist in residence at the NES Artist Residency in Skagaströnd, Iceland, where she exhibited her work as part of Light Up 2024. Currently, she is a teaching artist at Artlet26 in St Paul, Minnesota, and a member of two diverse artist-run organizations: Fotomatter Collective, a group of Minnesota-based lens and book artists, as well as Form + Content Gallery.
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Image: Tree Sculpture (detail), photographs printed on fabric, steel, 8’ x 6’, 2023