Brea Souders is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily with the medium of photography. Using materials such as film cut-ups from her archives, photographic chemicals, paint, personal effects, and objects from places ranging from Marnay-sur-Seine, France to the Atacama Desert in Chile to her parents’ attic in Philadelphia, she shapes and compresses time and place in works that serve as reservoirs for layered subjects and abstract concepts. Hinting at an increasingly dematerialized and fragmented society, many of her pieces capture a fleeting materiality, as seen in her paintings on film emulsion and her sculptural works created with static electricity.

Souders’ work has been shown internationally, including solo exhibitions at Abrons Arts Center, Baxter St at CCNY and Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York, as well as the Centre Photographique Rouen Normandie, France, the Wellcome Collection, London and the Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives, Canada. She has received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a National Arts Club Fellowship and a residency with the Millay Colony of the Arts. Her work is included in several survey publications, including Photography is Magic, Aperture; Feelings: Soft Art, Rizzoli; Color Theory in the Twenty-First Century, Oxford University Press and the forthcoming edition of The Photograph as Contemporary Art, Thames & Hudson. Souders’ work has been reviewed and profiled in the New Yorker, ARTnews, LA Review of Books, the Jeu de Paume Magazine and New York Times T Magazine. She lives in New York and is represented by Bruce Silverstein Gallery, NY.