Shannon Galadriel Wright Curriculum Vitae
Shannon Galadriel Wright
Born 1969, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Web portfolio: http://www.shannonwright.org
Art Process Blog: http://shannongwright.blogspot.com/
Student work portfolio: http://wrightstudentswork.blogspot.com
Education
1992-94
Master of Fine Arts Degree in Time Arts, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
1986-90
Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Sculpture, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
Honors/Awards
2019
Research, Scholarly and Creative Activity Assigned Time Program. Awarded 3WTU’s of Assigned Time for Spring 2020, and 3WTU’s each semester for the subsequent four years.
2017
California State University Research Grant. This grant funded four sculptures with the theme, "Moonshot", which were exhibited at Untitled Miami Fair in December, 2017.
2016
Silicon Valley Laureate Award 2016, Visual Arts
2015
California State University Research Grant. This grant funded a piece called Holding Pattern, completed in Jan, 2017.
2011
California State University Research Grant. This grant funded the exhibition called Mechanical Reproduction.
2006
California State University Research Grant. This grant funded the creation of a large outdoor sculpture called “Feral Fence”.
1999
Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Art
1996
Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Art
1994
MFA Traveling Fellowship, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago
1992
Two-year full Merit Scholarship, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago
1988
Alice Cabell Horsley Parker Fellowship, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
Other:
Nominated for the International Sculpture Center 2023 Outstanding Educator Award.
July, 2019: Profiled in the CSU Chancellor’s Office online series, “A Maker’s Tools.” Michelle McCarthy, with photographs by Robert Bain.
Accepted into the 2019/2020 Palo Alto Prequalified Artist Pool.
Semifinalist for $100K sculpture project at Google's Mountain View campus.
Nominated for the International Sculpture Center 2019 Outstanding Educator Award.
Residencies
2023 and ongoing:
Cubberley Artists Studio Program, Palo Alto. This is a four-year residency.
2016
Schnitzschule Geisler-Moroder
As part of my sabbatical project, I attended three weeks of classical woodcarving courses in Austria.
2010
Pro Artibus Artist Residency, Ekenas, Finland, January through March, 2010
2009
Fiskars Artist Residency, Fiskars, Finland, October 1 through December 31.
2003
Works Gallery Artist Residency, San José, California.
Exhibitions
Represented by ADA Gallery, Richmond, Virginia.
Previously represented by ADA Gallery and its sister gallery, Mulherin + Pollard Projects NY, New York
Art Fairs
2017
Untitled Art Fair, Miami Beach, Florida. Represented by ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA
2015
Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, Texas. Represented by ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA.
2014
Untitled Art Fair, Miami Beach, Florida. Represented by ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA
2008
Scope Miami, Roberto Clemente Park, Miami, Florida. Represented by ADA Gallery, Richmond, Virginia.
2007
Scope New York, Lincoln Center, NY, New York. Represented by ADA Gallery, Richmond, Virginia.
2006
Scope Miami, Roberto Clemente Park, Miami, Florida. Represented by ADA Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
Scope London, Truman Brewery, 91-95 Brick Lane, London, UK. Represented by ADA Gallery, Richmond, Virginia.
Solo Exhibitions
September 19-October 18, 2020.
Shannon Wright: Number Crunchers. Solo installation for the Art Kiosk, Redwood City, California, curated by Lance Fung/ Fung Collaboratives. The Art Kiosk is an outdoor glassed-in cube space located on the square of the Old City Hall complex in Redwood City, CA.
September 7- October 27, 2018
Shannon Wright: Moonshot. ADA Gallery, 228 W. Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23220
October 3- November 1, 2014
Shannon Wright: Heroic Measures. ADA Gallery, 228 W. Broad St, Richmond, VA, 23220
April 2014
Shannon Wright: Heroic Measures. Mulherin + Pollard, 187 Chrystie St., New York, NY
2012
Shannon Wright: Mechanical Reproduction. Mulherin + Pollard, 187 Chrystie St., New York, NY
2007
J.J. Garfinkel; Eung Ho Park; Shannon Wright . ADA Gallery, Richmond, Virginia.
2004
Mechanical Disadvantage: Installations by Shannon Wright. Tahoe Gallery, Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, Nevada
Air Drill, video installation. San José Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California.
Once Removed: Sculpture and Animations by Shannon Wright. Virginia Commonwealth University, Fine Arts Building Gallery.
Shannon Wright: Sculpture and Projections, Garden Fresh Gallery, Chicago, Illinois,
2003
Residency Exhibition, Works Gallery, San José, California.
2000
Toy (Collapsing Elephant). Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Illinois.
Group and Juried Exhibitions
2023 (Upcoming)
My piece “Salon après Tetris (5 Seconds of Fame) will be included in the deYoung Open 2023 exhibition, deYoung Museum/ Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Opens September 30, 2023.
2022
NADA Curated: Reduction to Satire. Curated by Fatos Ustek. https://www.newartdealers.org/programs/nada-curated-reduction-to-satire-reductio-ad-satura/exhibition?fbclid=IwAR20j6kyZ5e0Jp4UcnMtDq3bfHAwiUlLhx93VXqKksd10qzjcLMVKt9um8s
2021:
ART@CSU, curated online group exhibition at The University Gallery at Sonoma State University. Curated by Jennifer Bethke, Ph.D. March 15- April 18, 2021.
2019
Space and Place, curated group exhibition at the Euphrat Museum of Art, Cupertino, California. Curated by Diana Argabrite, Director, Euphrat Museum of Art. Catie Cadge-Moore, Larry Cazes, Binh Danh, John Dorrance, Pantea Karimi, Sophie Nangala-Rice, Carlos Rodriguez, Thamiko Thiel with Midori Kono Thiel, Rex Winston Walford and Shannon Wright. October 14-December 5, 2019
2018 Oct 26-Dec 22
HOME, at Collarworks gallery, Troy, NY. Curated by Cara Manes, Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture, MoMA.
Jan 8-April 7, 2018
Beyond Borders: Stories of Im(migration) Santa Clara University, Edward M. Dowd Art and Art History Building Gallery, Curated by Gutfreund Cornett Art.
Fine Line. An exhibition of drawings at ADA Gallery, Richmond, Virginia.
2015
Generator. Works on Paper by: Tim Sullivan, Irena Jurek, Arthur Pena, Jakob Boeskov, Tim Wilson, Shannon Wright, Alex Kvares, Barbara Weissberger, Derek Larson, Tom Condon, Bruce Wilhelm. ADA Gallery, Richmond, Virginia.
2013
Bay Area Currents: Navigating the New. Selections by Michael Schwager. Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
2012
Spatial Art and Digital Media Art Faculty Show, The Natalie and James ThompsonGallery, San Jose State University
2011
Mars Seeks Answers, Mulherin & Pollard Contemporary Art, New York, NY.
2010
Swan Boat made with Laura Baruel, featured in The Wedding of Opposites, a performance by Culturamobila, Fiskars, Finland
2009
Remote/ Control, Works Gallery, San Jose. Part of the SubZero art and technology festival. June through August, 2009.
2007
Nature and Transcendence, Carving Studio and Sculpture Center, West Rutland, Vermont. Curated by William Ramage.
2006
Frankenstein Theory and Robotics: A Survey of Robotics, Kinetic and New Media Art. Rx Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Spatial Arts Faculty Exhibition, Thompson Gallery, School of Art and Design, San Jose State University.
Claim the World of Art as Our Domain, Selections by Michael Wilson, Artforum. Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, California.
2005
New Visions: Introductions 2005, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, California. Juried by Catherine Clark and Jack Hanley.
2003
The Stray Show, Chicago, IL. My work was shown by Garden Fresh Gallery, Chicago.
Fall Exhibition, Selected Works by Faculty and Students of SJSU School of Art and Design. Heritage Bank, San Jose, California.
2001
Sculpture In Chicago Now, Part 2, William Koehnline Gallery, Desplaines, Illinois
Sculpture In Chicago Now, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois.
2000
Faculty Show, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois.
1999
Shared Roots, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, Virginia.
1995
Simple Machines, Complex Bodies, Work by Timothy Brower and Shannon Wright. Curated by Christopher Csikszentmihalyi.
Ephemeris Time, Gallery 2, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
1994
MFA Exhibition, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
1993
Opening Pandora’s Box, Gallery 2, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Recent Online Reviews
2018
Beyond Borders: Stories of Im/Migration, by Jeffrey Edalatpour in Metro Silicon Valley.
2014
Miami Art Week 2014: UNTITLED Art Fair Recap, by Nastia Voynovskaya in Hi Fructose
Searching for the Iconic Amid Post-Industrial Waste, review of Shannon Wright: Heroic Measures by Allison Meier in Hyperallergic.
2013
A Subjective Snapshot of Bay Area Art, review of Bay Area Currents 2013, by Michael Bigman in East Bay Express.
Public Lectures
2018
Shannon Wright: Mercantile Logic. Lecture co-sponsored by the De Saisset Museum and the Department of Art and Art History at Santa Clara University.
2012
Lecture in the Art Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
2010
Cabin Fever: My Winter in Finland, a discussion of my sabbatical in the Thompson Gallery lecture series, SJSU.
2010
Shannon Wright, Sculpture and Installations, lecture at Kuvataideakatemia/ Finnish Academy of Fine Arts.
2009
Fiskars Artist in Residency Artist’s Lecture Series. Fiskars AIR program, Fiskars Village, Finland.
2007
Theory and Practice Lecture Series, The Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery, School of Art and Design, SJSU
2006
Dorkbot Lecture Series, San Francisco. Gave a lecture entitled “Animating Principle” to accompany the show at Rx gallery.
2004
Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, Nevada. Gave a lecture to accompany my show entitled “Mechanical Disadvantage.”
2004
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. Gave a lecture to accompany my show entitled “Once Removed”.
2003
Monterey Peninsula College Art Department, Monterey, California.
Tuesday Night Lecture Series, The Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery, School of Art and Design, San Jose State University.
1998
Mid-America College Art Association Conference. Presented on a panel entitled "Figurative Sculpture: Ideas Beyond the Image."
Curatorial Experience
2001
Curated a show entitled Paradise at Columbia College's Glass Curtain Gallery.
Teaching and Related Experience
Link to images of my SJSU students' work: http://wrightstudentswork.blogspot.com
Fall 2020-Fall 2023:
Coordinator of Spatial Art Program
May, 2019:
Promotion to Full Professor
Fall 2017-Spring 2020:
Coordinator of the Art Graduate Program at SJSU
Fall 2016:
Sabbatical. I traveled to the Austrian Alps and spent 21 days learning classical woodcarving techniques, which I will incorporate in my work and in my Woodworking class at SJSU.
2008-2016:
Coordinator of the Spatial Art Program
2002-Present:
Coordinator of Three-Dimensional Foundations.
2009-2010:
Year-long Sabbatical including five-month stay in Finland.
2008-Present
Associate Professor, Spatial Art, San José State University. I received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in 2008.
2002-2008:
Assistant Professor, Spatial Art, San José State University.
2002-Present
Courses Taught:
I teach the following courses on a consistent rotation:
Art 03, Medium and Message
Art 173, The Shape of Space: Installation Art
Art 168, Topics in Woodworking: Furniture Construction
Art 168, Topics in Woodworking: Carving and Sculpture
Art 13, Three-Dimensional Design Concepts
Less Frequently Taught:
281, Graduate Interdisciplinary Critique Seminar
Art 172, Systems and Structures: Intermediate Sculpture
Art 204, Graduate Spatial/ Pictorial Art Seminar.
Art 198, BFA Seminar.
Art 68, Beginning Sculpture
Art 135, Moldmaking For Artists
1996-2002
3-D Area Shop Manager, Columbia College, Chicago, Art Department.
1996-2002
Instructor, Columbia College Chicago. Courses: Woodworking For Sculpture, Beginning Furniture Construction, 3D Design
1995-96
Exhibition Carpenter, Chicago Historical Society, Design Department.
1995
Independent Contractor, Chicago Children’s Museum, Exhibits Department.
1994 - 1995
Assistant to Custom Furniture Maker, Bob Robinson Furniture, Chicago.
1994
Teaching Assistant, Sculpture, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. (Two semesters.) Course: Beginning Woodworking.
1993
Teaching Assistant, First Year Program, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. (Two semesters.) Course: 4-D
1989-1992
Custom Picture Framer, Richmond Frame, Richmond, Virginia.
University Professional Development Grants
2016
Dean’s Small Grant, College of Humanities and the Arts, San Jose State University.
2014
Dean’s Small Grant, College of Humanities and the Arts, San Jose State University.
2006
Dean’s Small Grant, College of Humanities and the Arts, San Jose State University.
2005
San Jose State University Professional Development Lottery Grant.
2004
San Jose State University Professional Development Lottery Grant.
Committee Service
University Retention, Tenure, and Promotion Committee. Spring 2022 and Spring 2023.
Department of Art and Art History Scholarship Committee. Fall 2021- Spring 2022.
College of Humanities and the Arts Sabbatical Committee. Fall 2021.
Department of Art and Art History External Chair Search Committee. Fall 2020- Spring 2021.
College of Humanities and the Arts RTP Committee. Fall 2019 and Fall 2020 (two consecutive terms.)
Fall 2020-present
Art and Art History Chair Search Committee
Art Graduate Committee
Department Curriculum Committee
Art and Art History Scholarship Committee
Spatial Art Program Coordinator
2019-2020
Art Graduate Program Coordinator and Chair of Art Graduate Committee
College of Humanities and the Arts Retention, Tenure and Promotion Committee
2018
Art Graduate Program Coordinator and Chair of Art Graduate Committee
College of Humanities and the Arts Research Committee
Departmental Retention, Tenure and Promotion Committee
University Advancement Design Advisory Board
2017
Art Graduate Program Coordinator and Chair of Art Graduate Committee
Departmental Retention, Tenure and Promotion Committee
2016
College of Humanities and the Arts Curriculum Committee
Art Graduate Committee
2015
Department of Art and Art History Spatial Art and Entrepreneurship search committee
Art Graduate Committee
Spatial Art Program Coordinator
2014
Department of Art and Art History Data Visualization and Entrepreneurship search committee
College of Humanities and the Arts Faculty Development and Research Committee
Department of Art and Art History Scholarship Committee
2010-present
Department of Art and Art History Program Coordinators Committee
Department of Art and Art History Curriculum Committee
Department of Art and Art History Retention, Tenure and Promotion Committee
Department of Art and Art History Graduate Committee
2010-11
College of Humanities and the Arts Faculty Development and Research Committee
University Faculty Development and Research Committee
2008/9
School of Art and Design Executive Committee
Interior Design Search Committee
School Retention, Tenure and Promotion Committee
2007/8
College of Humanities and the Arts Curriculum Committee
University Extended Studies Committee
Architectural History/ Digital Media Art Faculty dual search Committee
Central Shops Technician Committee
2006/7
School of Art and Design Curriculum Committee
Art and Design School Council
2006
Glass Faculty Search Committee
School of Art and Design Curriculum Committee
College of Humanities and the Arts Faculty Development and Research Committee
02-present
School of Art and Design Graduate Committee
2005
Contemporary Art Historian, Design Historian Search Committee
2004
Digital Photography Faculty Search Committee
2004-5
College of Humanities and the Arts Curriculum Committee
2003-4
School of Art and Design Curriculum Committee
2002-5
Art and Design School Council
2002-3
Ad-Hoc Foundations Committee
Service At Large
2019
External Tenure/Promotion Reviewer, Portland State University