CURRICULUM VITAE

Shawn Shepherd is primarily self-taught with an informal education sourced from local artists, books and travels to art museums in France, Italy, Mexico, USA and Canada. Shawn's artistic processes and use of various media shift accordingly with his intellectual interests. Shawn currently works and resides in Victoria BC Canada, where he is Co-Owner/Curator of Polychrome Fine Arts.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 TEXTURA, Polychrome Fine Arts, Victoria
2011 BY ROSS BAY, Polychrome Fine Arts, Victoria
2010 RETINAL NEXUS, Polychrome Fine Arts, Victoria
2009 BIG GARDEN CITY, Comox Valley Art Gallery, Courtney, BC
2008 MESSENGER OF DEATH..., Ministry Of Casual Living, Victoria
2008 URBAN/GARDEN, Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver
2007 MINI - PALIMPSEST, Ministry Of Casual Living, Victoria
2006 FACADES, Ministry Of Casual Living, Victoria
2006 INTERNATIONAL, Martin Batchelor Gallery, Victoria
2005 COPS AND CARS, Cat Box Gallery, Nanaimo
2005 COMMUNICATION TRANSLATION, Martin Batchelor Gallery, Victoria
2004 PARTS, Ministry Of Casual Living, Victoria
2004 IMPERMANENCE, Martin Batchelor Gallery, Victoria
2003 MARY PORTFOLIO, Martin Batchelor Gallery, Victoria
2002 RENEWAL, Martin Batchelor Gallery, Victoria
2002 THE SPECIAL EXHIBITION, Massey Room - Art Gallery Of Greater Victoria
2001 SUIT JACKET BLOWOUT, Martin Batchelor Gallery, Victoria
2000 PRINTS CHARMING, Martin Batchelor Gallery, Victoria
1999 FAST PASTE, Community Arts Council, Victoria
1997 SUMMER FRUITS, Open Art Gallery, Vancouver

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 RPM, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria
2011 RPM, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria
2011 HAPPY HOUR, Deborah Page Projects, Austin, Texas
2010 TELLING STORIES, Campbell River Art Gallery, Campbell River, BC
2009 reGIFTED, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria
2009 RPM, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria
2009 HOBNOB, Polychrome Fine Arts, Victoria,
2009 MATERIAL BOUNDARIES, Deborah Page Projects, Austin, Texas
2008 GIFTED, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria
2008 RESIDENCY EXHIBITION, Open Space, Victoria
2007 RPM, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria
2007 NIGHT OF 1000 DRAWINGS, Artists Space, NY
2006 COMMUNICATION TRANSLATION / with Lyle S. Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo
2006 NIGHT OF 1000 DRAWINGS, Artists Space, NY
2005 SHAPESHIFTER HOTSPOT NOW, Open Space, Victoria
2005 GIFTED, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria
2005 CYCLOPS DREAMS, Access Artist Run Centre, Vancouver
2005 NEW WORLD EXHIBITION, with Derfer, Fan Tan Studios, Victoria
2004 CAMO WORLD, with Mary Patterson, Open Space, Victoria
2001 EYE CANDY, Art Gallery Of Greater Victoria, Victoria
2000 TO REMAIN AT A DISTANCE, Open Space, Victoria

REVIEWS
2012 May 27, Artist Takes Ideas To The Limit, Robert Amos, Times Colonist, Victoria BC
2011 June 13 , The 'Pablo Puckasso' of Victoria, Tom Hawthorn, Globe & Mail
2010 February 17 , "New faces, new year", (image) Campbell River Courier-Islander
2010 January 4, SHOPPING CART ART, by Rhonda May, City Food Magazine , Vancouver
2009 Big Garden City, by Mike Landry, Things of Desire issue #43, Toronto
2008 Issue #50, feature artist pgs.17-21, subTerrain Magazine, Vancouver
2006 January, exhibition review pg.32 by Christin Geall, Galleries West, Vancouver
2006 January, exhibition review pg.18 by Brian Grison, Focus, Victoria
2005 June, “Big is Big” exhibition review by Jason Kellar, Monday Magazine, Victoria
2005 SHAPESHIFTER HOTSPOT NOW (show catalogue), Open Space, Victoria
2005 Winter #229 pg.6 Christin Geall, Museums roundup, BC Museums Association
2004 February 12, exhibit review & image by Robert Amos, Times Colonist, Victoria
2003 January 16, “Mary, Mary” reviewer Adrienne Mercer, Monday Magazine, Victoria
2003 Jan.2,” Etchings...about Mary” review by Robert Amos, Times Colonist, Victoria
2001 January 14, review and image, Robert Amos, Times Colonist, Victoria
2000 July 23, “How much am I bid ? review, Robert Amos, Times Colonist, Victoria
2000 January 9, exhibition review, Robert Amos, Times Colonist, Victoria
1999 January 10,”Of life and still life” article, Robert Amos, Times Colonist, Victoria
1999 January, “Hard of Herring” review by David Leach, Monday Magazine, Victoria
1997 July, Sooke Fine Arts review (image), Robert Amos, Times Colonist, Victoria

AFFILIATIONS
Ministry of Casual Living, (lifetime member) Victoria, BC
Polychrome Fine Arts, (vice president) Victoria, BC
Open Space, (member) Victoria, BC
Deborah Page Projects, Austin, Texas, USA

AWARDS
2006 M Award, Victoria’s Favourite Visual Artist by Monday Magazine, Victoria
1997 Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic Award, Victoria

COLLECTIONS
University of Texas
Campbell River Art Gallery
Comox Valley Art Gallery
Maltwood Art Museum & Gallery, University of Victoria
TD Canada Trust
Oak Bay Marine Group
Oak Bay High School
Private collections, Canada, USA, England, Japan, China, Switzerland

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2012 Curator/Co-owner Polychrome Fine Arts, Victoria
2011 Curator/Co-owner Polychrome Fine Arts, Victoria
2010 Curator/Co-owner Polychrome Fine Arts, Victoria
2010 Printmaking instructor, Denman Island Arts Centre, Denman Island
2010 Discussion with Camosun College Visual Arts, students of Prof. John Boheme
2009 Curator/Co-owner Polychrome Fine Arts, Victoria
2008 Artist studio visit & talk for Friends of the Campbell River Art Gallery
2006 Artist talk at the Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo
2005 Artist talk at Open Space, Victoria
2005 Jury member, BC Arts Council, Victoria
2002 Printmaking demonstration for the Victoria Secondary School art faculty
2001 Artist talk for students of Oak Bay High School, Victoria

STATEMENT
The introduction of recycled felt pennant appliqué work to my oeuvre began in 2006 when I was ridding my life of numerous small collections. Since the first four works I hand stitched together that year, the appliqués have slowly evolved into a collection which is varied in size, appearance, and shape. Working with secondhand materials which need to be first collected lacks the immediacy of painting but sewing by hand is a quiet, clean and cozy thing to do in the wintertime.

Much of the work I have produced over the last decade is based on a culmination of ideas which explore type-written information, and/or recycling, and the effects of post imaging. My process often utilizes the dissection & compaction of printed text and the displacement, rearrangement, simplification and proportional shifts of the familiar. Consumer culture discards are converted into visual poetry.
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