shawne michaelain holloway

shawné michaelain holloway is a new media artist and the founder of STRAPP, a design collaborative that re-imagines adult novelty products. Known for using sound, video, and performance, Holloway shapes the rhetorics of technology and sexuality into tools for exposing structures of power.

She has spoken and exhibited work internationally in spaces like The New Museum and The Kitchen in New York, Helsinki’s Sorbus Galleria, and ICA London, as well as the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. holloway’s LP XXXTINCTION was released on Manchester’s Natural Sciences record label in January 2019. She currently teaches in the New Arts Journalism and Film Video New Media and Animation departments at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC).