Hi there!
I'm Soleil!
I grew up in Brooklyn, New York,
and went to Saint Ann's School.
I am currently a junior at Yale College, where
I study art with a concentration in sculpture.
You’ll often find me practicing yoga or martial arts.
I'm a member of Yale's experimental theater ensemble,
Control Group.
I'm interested in the interactions between
video, live performance, and sculpture.
I'm currently working on reengineering
a couple of payphones from the 1990s
for an interactive sculpture.
Education
2020 Brown University (Pre-college Program) “Compassionate Creativity”
2020 Playwriting workshop with Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
2008-2023 Saint Ann’s School (High School)
2023-Ongoing Yale University (BA in Art: Sculpture)
2024 International School of Dramatic Corporeal Mime (Summer Intensive)
Work
2018 Coco and Breezy Eyewear (Summer Intern)
2021 The Archives for Research in Archetypal Symbolism, The Jungian Institute of New York (Educator, Archival Researcher)
2021, 2022, 2023 Matthew Barney Studio for works Catasterism and Secondary (Intern, Studio Assistant, Archivist)
2023, Matthew Barney Studio/Gladstone Gallery (Site Attendant/Studio Representative for the Secondary site in New York )
2024 Chiara Hardy (Studio Assistant for Senior Thesis, Yale School of Art)
2024-2025 Center for Collaborative Arts and Media ( 2024-2025 Fellow)
Summer 2025 Teaching Assistant for Yale Pathways to Science
2024-ongoing Center for Language Study at Yale (French Language Tutor)
2025-ongoing Project Sunshine Yale Chapter (Volunteer)
2025-ongoing Pottery Studio Manager for Davenport College
Exhibitions/performances
2021 Photo Project: Emotional Documentation+Sound(e)Scapes, Saint Ann’s School, Brooklyn, NY
2022 We Can Find the Words, group performance, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Walk with Amal, group performance, St. Ann’s Warehouse, New York, NY
2022 Equality Now 30th Anniversary Gala, documentary theater performance, New York, NY
2022 Play to Escape, group exhibition, HEREart Center, New York, NY
2023 Scholastic Art and Writing, group exhibition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2023 Parasocial Party, group performance, Yale School of Art (The Pit), New Have, CT
2023 Hair Piece, performance with Camille Chang, New Haven, CT
2024 Gallery+Control Group, group performance, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2024 Echos, group show, Yale School of Art (36 Edgewood Gallery), New Haven, CT
2024 Play Read Screen: Live Sound, Poetry, and Projections, Grey Matter Books, New Haven, CT
2024 Dental Ball, Solo show, Davenport Gallery, Yale University New Haven, CT
2024-2025 [Hypertext](Hyperlink), group performance, Center for Collaborative Arts and Media at Yale
2025 Alphabet Piece, performance with Camille Chang, New Haven, CT
2025 Sports Acts, performance with Camille Chang, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2025 Studio Fellows Exhibition at the Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, New Haven, CT
2025 Selected Writer and Director of the Yale Dramatic Association's Fall Experimental
2025 Real-to-Real, performance with Camille Chang, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
Award and Grants
2025 Fellow - The Class of 1982 Cowles Summer Fellowship
2025 Grant Recipient - TSAI City Student Ecosystem Fund
2024-2025 Fellow - Center for Collaborative Arts and Media at Yale
2024, 2025 Grant Recipient - Creative and Performing Arts Awards at Yale
2023, 2022 Award Recipient - Scholastic Art and Writing Awards
Publications
2025, Secondary, Contributing Writer, Matthew Barney Studio and Rizzoli Books
2025, Holding Tongue, featured in Vol. 38 of the Yale Literary Magazine, Fall Issue