Shauna Born

Home: Toronto, Ontario
Title: Get hold of me
Media: Oil on canvas / huile sur toile
Dimensions: 76 x 60 cm

My recent paintings explore an interest in the idealized glamour of youth and fantasy. I am also concerned with the technical and formal issues of figurative painting.

EDUCATION:

2004 AOCAD (honours), Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2009 Upcoming, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto
2007 We’re All Saints, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art and Projects, Toronto
2006 This Pretty Face, Le Gallery, Toronto
2005 Stomach, Brain and Body, Le Gallery, Toronto

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2009 Wish You Were Here- Postcards from Toronto, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto

2008 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, 31Grand, New York, USA, Scope New York with Katherine Mulherin, New York, USA, CIRCA Puerto Rico, with Katharine Mulherin, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Toronto International Art Fair with Katharine Mulherin, Toronto

2007 Aqua Art Fair, Miami, USA, Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Canada, Wanted, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto, Canada, Scope New York with Katharine Mulherin, New York, USA, Scope Basel, Switzerland, ArtLA Art Fair, Los Angeles, USA

2006 Other Moments: New Sculpture, Photography and Art on Paper, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
Casey House Art With Heart, Carlu, Toronto
Humans, James Baird Gallery, Newfoundland
Pictures of Girls, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Nathan Philips Square, Toronto
Square Foot, AWOL Gallery, Toronto

2005 Square Foot NY, Project Spaceman (with AWOL gallery), Williamsburg, Brooklyn, USA
Casey House Art With Heart, Carlu, Toronto
Square Foot, AWOL Gallery, Toronto
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Nathan Philips Square, Toronto
Best Of, 2004 TOAE Award Winners, First Canadian Place Gallery, Toronto

AWARDS:
2008 Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant
2004 Portrait Award, Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, M. W.O. Forsyth Scholarship, Eric Freifeld Award
2003 The Rose of Cedardale Award
2002 Aiming for the Top Tuition Scholarship
2001 The Christopher and Mary Pratt Award, Aiming for the Top Tuition Scholarship
2000 Governor General’s Medal (Academic)