Shawné Michaelain Holloway
Shawné Michaelain Holloway (born 1991) is a Chicago-based American new media artist and digital feminist whose practice incorporates sound, performance, poetry, and installation with focuses in new media art, feminist art, net art, digital art. Holloway engages with the rhetoric of technology and sexuality to excavate the hidden architectures of power structures and gender norms. Early life and education. Holloway was born in Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. From 2008 to 2010, Holloway attended Shimer College where she studied social science. In 2013, Holloway received a B.F.A. in studio art from the School of  the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2016, Holloway received an M.F.A. in design and technology from Parsons Paris. Career. Alongside her art practice, Holloway is also a teacher in the New Arts Journalism and Film Video New Media and Animation departments at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), The New School, a sex educator teaching classes and writing about intersectional approaches to exploring kinks, and the founder of STRAPP, a design collaborative that re-imagines adult novelty products. She has spoken and exhibited work internationally in spaces like The New School and Eyebeam in New York, Helsinki ’s Sorbus Galleria, and ICA London, as well as the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Her work has been acknowledged by sector experts such as Rhizome (organization) and Holloway has been invited to numerous national and international artist-in-residence programs, such as Lean Artist, and curator-in-residence programs, including the dgtl fmnsm festival in Dresden, Germany in 2018.