About Me

Artist Bio

Sol Skelton is a multimedia artist currently living in Vancouver, BC on the unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh). He moved from Brooklyn to Vancouver in 2021 to study Cognitive Systems and Visual Art at the University of British Columbia. He will be graduating May 2025.

Sol investigates the systems which surveil and divide populations, particularly those which act directly on the body. These systems are wide ranging, from societal norms, to government and corporate regulation, and the network of technologies which mediate separation and connection. He is interested in the relationship between cognition–both natural and artificial–and body.

Sol's work seeks to push against restrictive, oppressive categorization. His study of perception and cognition informs his view of human experience as something which is inherently communal and interrelated.