(october 2009)
Although I do not immediately identify myself solely as an artist, I publicly practice creative acts as a counter-measure against social injustice, and on a personal level as a life strategy for well-being. I seek a creative mobility that allows me to use whatever materials I feel are crucial to the idea at hand. To this end I work in video, print, static and kinetic sculpture, street signage of dubious legality, Polaroid photography, and as a self-taught history writer/researcher. I am currently working on projects which explore obscured and forgotten histories - those of humans and of other animals - through memorial practices.
(bio)
Shaun Slifer is a multidisciplinary artist currently working in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received a BFA in Sculpture from Watkins College of Art in Nashville, Tennessee in 2003. Shaun has exhibited nationally in a wide variety of galleries, nonprofit exhibition spaces, and community centers, as well as under bridges and alongside interstate highways. He regularly works in collaboration with other artists as well as in collectively structured settings, including the Street Art Workers collective, and the Justseeds Radical Artists Cooperative. He also practices organic plant and mushroom gardening, has a penchant for researching radical North American history, and is a decent bicycle mechanic.