Shobun BAILE

Profile

Born in Detroit (United States) in 1986. Lives and works in New York City. Graduated with an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Carnegie Mellon University School of Art in 2018.
Baile is an artist working with moving images, photography, sound, and writing.

Recent exhibitons
2024 “Some Contamination,” Para Site, Hong Kong
2024 “At Odds With,” Whitney Museum ISP, New York City
2023 “Videonale.19,” Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
2021 “Sunset Kino,” Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
2020 “New York Film Festival,” Film at Lincoln Center, New York City

Awards
Gwaertler Grant, Basel, Switzerland
2024 MacDowell Fellowship, Peterborough, United States
2021 Sunset Kino Award, Salzburger Kunstverein, Austria

About works

Baile makes moving images, installations, objects and writing that explores the quiet ideologies and technologies that organize the movement of value, people, and thought. He uses personal relationships and experiences as starting points for research into a specific event or story. The subject matter of his work is diverse, from the South Asian informal money transfer system known as hawala, to a small company town in the Midwest of the United States. His practice is split between research-driven work, and narrative cinema and fiction.