Sonny Oram is a Boston-based multidisciplinary artist whose work spans visual art, music, performance, writing, fashion, and design, exploring the intersections of emotion, identity, and social change.
Selected Projects
Wearable Art
Illustrator
Comedy
Impressions / Music Comedy
What if you could see music?
Live Painting / Performance Art
Selected Poems
Poetry / Spoken Word
MIT Edgerton Center Rebrand
Brand Identity / Logo Design
Selected Visual Art
Painting / Mixed Media
MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning Posters
Poster Design / Visual Identity
Fashion
Model
Qwear
Founder / Creative Director
Music (Compositions and Recordings)
Violist, Composer, Singer
Radical Fashion
Collage / Writing
Exhibitions & Publications
2026
Songs for Friends Gala with the Arpeggione Ensemble
Painting Silent Auction · Danvers, Massachusetts · May 24
2025
Radical Fashion (1998–2000)
Published in Bloomsbury Press &
Fashion, Style & Popular Culture
2024
All at Once (Qwear)
13FOREST Gallery · Arlington, MA
2021
Qwear Pride Virtual Fashion Show 2021
Instagram Live
#AdvocacyArt2021 Showcase
Featured Work: Is My Blood Not Red?
2020
Qwear Pride Virtual Fashion Show 2020
Facebook Live
2018
The House of Qwear Presents: Legendary Children
Boston University Art Galleries
Intersections
Solo Exhibition · MIT Rotch Library
2016
Femme Desire (Qwear)
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
2015
Dismantle Me (Qwear)
ICA Boston Fashion Week / Queer Fashion Week /
Rainbow Fashion Week
Speaking & Public Engagement
2023–24
GBH Boston
Spoken word performance appearances
2018
MIT School of Architecture + Planning
Moderator & Organizer —
“From Stud to Stalled: Social Equity in Public Space”
Simmons University School of Nursing
Panelist — Panel on Transgender Health
2017
MIT Department of Urban Studies & Planning
Co-Moderator & Co-Organizer —
“Gentrification Beyond Displacement”
2016
Fenway Health
Presenter —
“Dress for Success: What to Wear to Look and Feel Your Best”
South by Southwest (SXSW)
Presenter —
“Queer Style: Visual Activism & Fashion’s Frontier”