shaun slifer
pittsburgh, pennsylvania
email: shaun(at)justseeds(dot)org

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

(awards)
Critical Encounters guest artist, Colombia College Chicago, 2009
Acknowledgment Award, Pittsburgh Creativity Project, 2008 (Howling Mob Society)
Artist Opportunity Grant- Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, 2008
Juror Nomination (Golan Levin), Prix Ars Electronica - Hybrid Arts Category, 2007 (w/ Stuart Anderson)

(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)
"Loaded: Hunting Culture in America" - Glass Curtain Gallery (Colombia College Chicago), Chicago, IL 2009
"Which Side Are You On?" (with Justseeds) - University of Wisconsin (Union Art Gallery), Milwaukee, WI 2009
"Materialisms" - Allegheny College, Meadvillle, PA 2009
"Out of the Shell of the Old" (Justseeds) - Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA 2008
"Meet the Made" - Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA 2008
Watkins College First Annual Alumni Exhibition, Nashville, TN 2008
"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

(selected lectures and presentations)
Critical Encounters guest artist, Colombia College Chicago, IL 2009
Working Class Studies Association Conference, Pittsburgh PA 2009 (Howling Mob Society)
Visible Memories Conference, Syracuse, NY 2008 (Howling Mob Society)
Allied Media Conference, Detroit, MI 2008 (Howling Mob Society)
Guest Artist of Carnival student organization, Evergreeen State College, 2006

(publications)
Firebrands: Portraits of American Radicals (working title, Microcosm Publishing 2010) - writer, editor
Proximity Magazine, January 2009 - review (Howling Mob Society)
Reproduce & Revolt (Soft Skull Press, 2007) - artwork throughout
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)
working member of Justseeds Radical Artists Cooperative
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 (2005-2008)

(employment and volunteer experience)
Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA - December 2007 - present (artist educator)
Wood Street Galleries / SPACE, Pittsburgh, PA - August 2004 to December 2007 (exhibit installation)
Rule of Thirds art space, Nashville, TN - March 2002 - February 2004 (co-founder and co-director)
Fugitive Art Center, Nashville, TN - January 2001 - February 2002 (gallery assistant and resident artist)

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