SHAURIE BIDOT

Shaurie Bidot is a contemporary painter and interdisciplinary artist whose mediums delve into performance art, film, sculpture & ink illustration. Her work focuses on depicting and materialising the unique recesses of human emotion and abstract feeling. When working, Shaurie describes the dance between herself and the material as a flow state in which she feels the energy of a person, feeling or place and creates a form for it to exist within. 

 

Shaurie holds a combined bachelor’s degree in art history and museum studies from the University of Tennessee and Arizona State where she focused her academic studies and publications on decolonial theory and Latin American art.

 

As someone whose own positionality occupies many realms as an Afro-Latinx, Queer, Neurodivergent and Jewish artist, Shaurie’s praxis is guided by her commitment to deconstructing western and heteropatriarchal notions of fine art and art theory and she hopes to one day be able to disrupt these systems on a curatorial level. 

 

For Shaurie art and the practice of creating is a spiritual one that allows her to externalise feelings and emotions outside of corporeal or tangible limitations. 

Art is an act of world-building. It is community activism. It is unity. It is love.