shaun slifer
pittsburgh, pennsylvania
email: nutmegb(at)gmail(dot)com

(education)
Watkins College of Art and Design , Nashville, TN
Bachelors Degree in Fine Art, concentration in sculpture, December 2003

(solo exhibitions)
“Tame” - Brownlee O. Curry Gallery and surrounding outdoor property, Watkins College of Art and Design, Nashville, TN, April 2004
“Shrines along I-40” - site-specific installations at five positions along Interstate 40 across Tennessee, May 2002
“Reproduction” - paintings - Mad House Gallery, Franklin, TN, January 2002
“Change of Pace (growth)” - installation - Fugitive Art Center, Nashville, TN, May 2001
“Where I’m From” - installation - Watkins College of Art front lobby, Nashville, TN, December 2000
(untitled performance) - throughout opening reception for “Playing with Matches: Beck and Al Hansen” Cheekwood Museum, Nashville, TN, October 2000

(two person exhibitions)
“Between Here and There (is better than either Here or There)” w/ Ally Reeves - 707 Penn Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA 2005
“Johnny Appleseed” - collaborative installation w/Ally Reeves - Sarratt Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 2003

(group exhibitions)
"Paper Politics (Milwaukee)" - Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI 2007
"Pittsburgh's Best 2007" - part of the Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA 2007
"Mechanosphere" - Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA 2007
"Everything is Possible" - Future Tenant, Pittsburgh, PA 2006
"Into My Self" - SPACE, Pittsburgh, PA 2006
“Paper Politics (Portland)” - Portland State University, Portland, OR 2006
“Pittsburgh's Best 2006” - part of the Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA 2006
“The Horse You Rode In On” - (Secret Show Series) Chestnut Building, Nashville, TN, 2006
“Paper Politics (Brooklyn)” – 5+5 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2006
“Small Acts” - SPACE, Pittsburgh, PA, 2005
“Joyce to the World” - Joyce Warehouse, Pittsburgh, PA, 2005
“What It Is” - Brewhouse, Pittsburgh, PA, 2005
“Touchless Apparatus” - (Secret Show Series) Chestnut Building, Nashville, TN, 2005
“Paper Politics (West)” - Phinney Neighborhood Community Center, Seattle, WA, 2005
“On the 8th Day” - collaborative mural, "The Interventionists"exhibit, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, 2004
“Paper Politics” - In These Times offices, Chicago, IL, 2004
“Fugitive Art Center 5th Year Anniversary Exhibit” - Fugitive Art Center, Nashville, TN, 2004
“52” - Steel Pond Gallery, Portland, OR, 2004
“Indivisible Cities: Exhibition” - Kunstraum Kruezberg, Berlin, Germany, 2003
“Stencils: The Art of Negative Spaces” - Cell Space, San Francisco, CA, 2003
“Detroit Summer Bike Art Benefit” - Back Alley Bikes, Detroit, MI, 2003
“Stencil Pirates” - national traveling poster exhibition, 2003
“Brainstorm the Walls!” - poster exhibit and exchange, Pittsburgh, PA, 2003
“Self” - ‘Untitled’ group exhibition, Nashville, TN, 2003
“More” - ‘Untitled’ group exhibition, Nashville, TN, 2002
“Switchyard” - Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN, 2002
“Instant: 44 Artists Using 1 Polaroid Camera” - Rule of Thirds, Nashville, TN, 2002
“Watkins First Annual Juried Student Exhibition” - Watkins College, Nashville, TN, 2002
“Long Overdue: Artists Tributes to the Card Catalog” - St. Andrew’s/Sewanee Gallery, Sewanee, TN, 2001
“In Heat: an Erotic Art Exhibition” - Fugitive Art Center, Nashville, TN, 2001
“Watkins Graduate Exhibition” - Watkins College, Nashville, TN, 2001
“Watkins Invitational Student Exhibition” - Dreamworks Recording Studio, Nashville, TN, 2000

(awards)
Artist Opportunity Grant - Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, 2008
First Place Award - Sculpture - Watkins First Annual Juried Student Exhibition, 2002

(publications)
Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority (AK Press, 2007) - interview, artwork
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, December, 2005 - review
City Paper (Pittsburgh), December, 2005 - review
City Paper (Pittsburgh), July, 2005 - review
Stencil Pirates (Soft Skull Press, April, 2004) - artwork throughout
Punk Planet, November, 2003 - interview
Nashville Scene, October 23, 2003 - review pg. 61
Vanderbilt Hustler, October 7, 2003 - article pg. 8
Fifth Estate, September, 2003 - back cover artwork
Number, April, 2003 - article (Rule of Thirds)
Nashville Scene, August 8, 2002 - article (Rule of Thirds) pg. 30
Tennessean, April 2, 2002 - interview, Sunday Life pg. 10
Art Papers, Jan/Feb 2002, - review, pg. 41
Nashville Scene, May 10, 2001 - anonymous interview pg. 33

(other)
coordinator with Street Art Workers - national working collective of poster artists and designers
contributor to "Celebrate People's History!" - ongoing radical history poster project
coordinator with Free Ride – bicycle recycling collective in Pittsburgh, PA

(employment and volunteer experience)
Wood Street Galleries / SPACE, Pittsburgh, PA - August 2004 to the present
exhibit installation technician

Rule of Thirds art space, Nashville, TN - March 2002 - February 2004
co-founder and co-director, shared in curating and hanging of shows, press, etc.

Fugitive Art Center, Nashville, TN - January 2001 - February 2002
studio space in exchange for work moving and hanging shows, help with renovations and
maintenance, facilitated gallery hours

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