Shay Myerson

FNAR Thesis2026

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Shay Myerson
Department
Fine Arts

Shay Myerson’s practice spans sculpture, installation, and performance, assembling systems of decoys, pseudo-events, and artifacts of internalized threat in which nature and artifice blur. Working with clay, metal, pigment, paint, plastics, and social choreography, she treats materials as instruments for tracking how attention, belief, and longing take form. Rooted in ecological ritual and American myth, her practice asks how communities stage both their survival and their awe, and how objects absorb the psychic weather of the conditions that shape them.

Installation view of multimedia sculptures that are mounted on poles

Across media, Myerson approaches form as a diagnostic tool, attuning to cultural tremors before they settle into discourse. She works within moments when objects become proxies for ontological confusion, when infrastructures of care and infrastructures of fear become indistinguishable. Within these tensions, her work traces how people orient themselves through inherited fictions, environmental pressures, and sensory logics of determinacy.

Shay Myerson is an artist and social worker based between Los Angeles and Philadelphia. Through material and social arrangements, Myerson traces the unstable boundary between the intimate and the infrastructural, attending to moments when meaning slips, doubles, or misfires. She has exhibited work in Los Angeles, CA; Portland, OR and Lubbock, TX, and has curated exhibitions in New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA.

This work was included in Under Scores, the 2026 Weitzman Fine Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition.

Close up view of a multimedia work installed on a pole
Close up installation view of a multimedia work installed on a pole
Shay Myerson
Installation view of a sculptural that reaches from the floor to the ceiling
Shay Myerson
Installation view of a sculptural work that bows out from a corner of a wall