Soli Pierce

My interdisciplinary practice explores the sentient intelligence of the natural world through sculpture, installation, photography, encaustic, and found-object assemblage. While earlier work focused on the mapping of light and time, my recent installations reflect a deeper listening—not to nature as scenery, but as teacher, co-creator, and sovereign force. I am drawn to the quiet authority of non-human life—the resilience of moss, the pattern logic of fungi, the breath exchange of trees. These beings are not metaphors, but presences with agency, memory, and intricate ways of communicating. My work challenges the human-centered lens, inviting a more expansive awareness of our place within a living system of relations.

In ongoing collaborations with sound artist Bruce Odland, we create immersive environments that make the invisible audible, and the familiar strange. By layering field recordings, natural materials, and sensory cues, we ask visitors to slow down, feel their bodies in space, and engage with the subtle, responsive behaviors of other life forms. We aim to awaken curiosity, humility, and ecological empathy. In my solo work, the circle serves as a formal and philosophical structure. It becomes a portal to contemplate homeostasis, growth, regeneration, and wholeness—the defining characteristics of life shared across species. Found objects and organic matter are often incorporated to speak to decay and renewal, reminding us that nothing truly disappears— it only changes form. My installations create spaces of stillness, intimacy, and multispecies connection. They invite viewers to de-center themselves and re-attune to a living world that pulses with intelligence, reciprocity, and mystery. At heart, my practice is a call to remember that nature is not other— it is us.

Soli Pierce was a 2025 artist-in-residence at KinoSaito, her recent Sound Forest installation series, in collaboration with sonic artist Bruce Odland, was supported by multiple grants and presented at the Hammond Museum, ArtsWestchester, and KinoSaito Arts Center (2024–2025). Pierce was recently awarded the 2025 Jentel Artist Residency in Wyoming.

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