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Brea Souders is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY, whose work bridges studio-based practices and observational photography. Her recent work explores concepts of selfhood, anonymity, belonging, and otherness within technological landscapes. Looking at the historical and ongoing imprints of technology from a female perspective, she examines its impact on bodies, identities, and perceptions of the world around us.
She employs diverse materials and techniques, integrating photography, AI and internet screenshots alongside painting, chemical processes, and bookmaking. Many of her projects rely on time and sunlight, not just as tools but as active forces in the creation of her work. Souders blends conceptual inquiry with records of both online and offline spaces, creating works that reflect a mediated and transforming world. While she values control in her work, she also embraces chance and the unknowable, observing that “illumination isn’t guaranteed.”
Souders’ recent published books include Another Online Pervert, (MACK, 2023) and Brea Souders: Eleven Years (Saint Lucy Books, 2021). She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at Baxter St. at CCNY, Bruce Silverstein Gallery and the Abrons Arts Center in New York, as well as at Foam Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; the Centre Photographique Rouen Normandie, France; PhMuseum, Bologna, Italy; and Peckham 24, London, UK. She is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, National Arts Club Fellowship, and Baxter St. at CCNY Residency. Essays and reviews of her work have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Artforum, Frieze, i-D, The Los Angeles Review of Books and The New Yorker. Souders’ artist books are included in the library collections of the Museum of Modern Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Getty Research Institute; Harvard University, Princeton University, Stanford University, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art and others.
She is currently faculty with the International Center of Photography in the Creative Practices program, and previously taught at Parsons / The New School.