Bio:

 Sonia Simoun was born in Russia in 1966 and emigrated to the US in 1988. Once in the US, Simoun worked as a scene painter in various theaters throughout the East Coast, including the Juilliard School in New York and the ART in Cambridge, MA. From 1992 to 1996 Simoun studied at Massachusetts College of Art where she began working with clay and gradually turned to ceramics as her chosen medium. Her work has been exhibited at various art shows both in the US and in Europe, winning several prestigious awards. Currently Sonia Simoun works out of Harvard Ceramic Studio.

Statement:

On the line between life and art, ceramic objects move fluidly between form and function. My work exploits this dichotomy while pushing it to its edge, using the formal language of the domestic object to explore ideas of fracture and fissure, inside and outside, and the ways that craft relates to the architectural and the monumental. Embodying the form of the familiar functional object, I use the language of architecture to push past this simple functionality, in order to achieve new understanding of every-day objects and their relationship to our complex lives.