Bio & CV
Shanon Playford paints in her native Portland, Oregon.
Received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1997 and attended the School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 1992 to 1994.
exhibition:
July, 2012 Springbox Gallery, Portland, Oregon – Illusion : with Rory K Leonard
April 28, 2012 Cascade Aids Project Auction, Special Collection Portland, Oregon
January, 2012 Denizen Gallery @ Milepost 5, Portland, Oregon – Devil and the Deep : with Dana Henderson, Jessica Johnson, Joanne Licardo and Jesse Detwiller
December, 2011 Littman Gallery @ PSU, Portland, Oregon – group, PORTLAND VISUAL ART EXCHANGE
October, 2011 Spring Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon – Images for the Secret Society
August, 2011 Splendorporium , Portland, Oregon – Five Person Invitational Show
April, 2011 Artist A Day, Muse Art & Design, Portland, Oregon – benefit live painting & auction event
2010 Splendorporium, Portland, Oregon – group, The Tarot Show
2010 Littman Gallery, PSU, Portland, Oregon – group, Gifted: An Exchange for Artists
2010 Splendorporium, Portland, Oregon – group, 6’6″
2010 Errata Gallery, Portland, Oregon – group, Menagerie
2010Beet Gallery, Portland, Oregon – two-person, Paintings, Out of Our Heads
2010Froelick Gallery, Portland, Oregon – group, Two of a Kind
2010Artist A Day, Muse Art & Design, Portland, Oregon – benefit live painting & auction event
2010Art in Hand – Portland Project
2010 The Love Show, Launch Pad & Olympic Mills, Portland, Oregon – group, open
2009Ogle Gallery, Portland, Oregon – solo, XX: Janes, Dames, Saints, Chicks, Crones, Babes,
Birds, Bitches and Others
2008The Portland Art Open, Portland, Oregon
2008Chemeketa Community College Gallery, Salem, Oregon – group, The Presence of Absence
2008PiP Gallery, Portland, Oregon – group, More Dreams of Men
2007Beet Gallery, Portland, Oregon – solo, Dreams of Men
2007Tower Fine Arts Gallery, Brockport, New York – group, Not Right: Artists Altering Natural Schemes
2007Art for Progress, New York, New York – group, Clash of the Artists
2006M2 Gallery & State Capitol, Austin, Texas – group, Justice for All
2006Gallery Lombardi, Houston, Texas – group, Justice for All
2006Utrecht, Portland, Oregon – group, Politics
2006Carpe Vinum, Portland, Oregon – solo, Caprices
2005Froelick Gallery, Portland, Oregon – Group, Self Portraits
2004Froelick Gallery, Portland, Oregon – Group, Clown Show
2003Static Gallery, Liverpool, UK – Group, Movement
2000PICA, Portland, Oregon – Group exhibit, Open Walls
1998NFA Space, Chicago, Illinois – Group exhibit, Lost and Found
1997NFA Space, Chicago, Illinois – Group exhibit, Intimate
collection:
Private & corporate collections in Chicago, Boston, New York, Napa, Milan, Los Angeles, Hartford, New Haven, Kansas, Texas, Seattle, Scotland, South Africa, and Portland