Ethan Shoshan is a mutli-media artist who is based in Manhattan and connects communities through a combination of visual media, performance, sound, video, and installation. Shoshan utilizes different platforms of presentation and explores the visual culture of queer identity in addition to the history of his Jewish heritage, to convey how both are juxtaposed to popular culture.

I’m Always Thinking About You When Kissing Another Boy appeared at the Aljira Gallery in Newark, New Jersey during the Spring of 2010. The scope of the artist’s site-specific installation features the collection and re-contextualization of over 100 objects that lead viewers to experience layered assemblage beyond the scope of the more formal art market. Accompanied with audio recordings of personal reflections, the display of personal gifts – such as postcards, shells, and clothes – serves to capture the subjectivity of passion, love, loss, and death. In 2011, Shoshan exhibited a series of abstract prints and magnetic sculptures in a show titled Falling Towards Light, an exploration of diaspora and his family’s immigration to America through a metaphor of the moth which was on view at Commonwealth & Council in Los Angeles, California.

Shoshan is currently putting together a new project titled Strange Birds, an exploration of alternative histories which will be exhibited at the Center for Book Arts in New York, from January to March 2012. Interviews will become vignettes into queer people’s lives, connecting first-person narratives with specific objects that carry strong personal meaning.