Solo/2-3 Person Exhibitions
in the ROUGH, FOMA Art Space, Santa Fe, NM., 2024
Alcoves 16/17 #5, New Mexico Museum of Art, 2016
Mostly Clear and Partly Cloudy, Mesa Public Library, New Mexico 2013
EightModern, Santa Fe, New Mexico 2011
Santa Fe Storefront Project, Santa Fe Arts Commission 2011
cropcircleseries, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM. 2005-2006
Tracing Space, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM. 2002
Marshall Arts Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ. 2001
Light,Line,Form, Coleman Gallery, Albuquerque, NM. 2000
Fragile Histories, Linda Durham Contemporary Art. Santa Fe, NM. 2000
Eccentric Still Lives, Coleman Gallery, Albuquerque, NM. 1998
Eccentric/Primitive, Astilli Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM. 1997
Victoria Maase Stoll Fine Art. Santa Fe, NM. 1996
Selected Group Exhibitions
Beyond Landscape:From the Galisteo Basin, Historic Santa Fe Foundation, 2024
Stern Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM. 2019
Hardesty Center for the Arts,(Lady Minimalist Tea Society) Tulsa, OK 2019
Gloria Devan Atelier, Santa Fe, NM. 2019
La Sala de Galisteo, Best Seats in the House. 2018
H Gallery (DabArt), Biotic, Ventura, California 2017
Santa Fe Collective, Closing Extravaganza, New Mexico 2016
SMINK, The Lady Minimalists Tea Society, Dallas,TX.(upcoming) 2015
Peters Projects, Axle Indoor, Santa Fe, NM. 2015
ARTSuP Salon, A Conversation (Lady Minimalists), Galisteo,NM. 2014
Offroad Productions, Santa Fe, NM. 2013
ArtSantaFe, Santa Fe Community Convention Center,NM. 2012
Brush Creek Ranch, Saratoga,WY. 2011
Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan,Ann Arbor, MI 2010
Gebert Contemporary Art, Scottsdale,AZ. 2009
Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM. 2009,2005,2003,2001
James Snidle Fine Art, Chico,CA. 2008
Chiaroscuro Gallery, Scottsdale,AZ. 2007
Perimeter Gallery, Chicago,IL. 2005,2002
Jentel Arts, Sheridan,WY. 2005
ARTCHICAGO, Chicago, IL. 2002, 2005
College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM. 2002
Publications
Catalogue for ‘in the ROUGH’ FOMA Art Space, 2024
Visual Art Source,2017
The Santa Fe New Mexican Pasatiempo, 2016
THE Magazine, 2016/17
Albuquerque Journal North, 2011
THE Magazine, 2011
Interstices, University of Michigan Press, 2010
The New Mexican, Pasatiempo, 2005
The Sheridan Press, Sheridan, WY. 2005
ARTTALK, Southwest Edition, 2000
Phoenix Home and Garden, AZ. 2000
Southwest Gallery Guide, 2000
New American Painting, Open Studios Press, 2000
Collections
Armstrong-Prior, Phoenix, AZ.
California State University, Chico, CA.
Quales,Brady,Streich & Lang Law, Phoenix,AZ.
Hedrich-Blessing Photography, Chicago, IL.
College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM.
Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin
Numerous private collections
Honors & Awards
Brush Creek Ranch Foundation Residency and Fellowship, Saratoga, WY. 2011
Jentel Artists Fellowship, Sheridan, WY. 2005
Women Artists from the Land of Enchantment, NM. chapter, National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1st place award. 1999
New American Painting, Southwest Edition, Open Studios Press, 2000
Education
Santa Fe Art Institute, Art Institute of Chicago (student at large)
University of Michigan (BFA cum laude).
Related Experience
Marshall Fields window display, independent performance/movement arts 1979-1996
Chicago Moving Company 1980-1991 (modern dance) Asst. Director, Choreographer
Santa Fe Arts Commission, Evanston Arts Council, New Mexico Women in the Arts/National Museum of Women in the Arts, chair:FOCA+P Steering Committee with The New Mexico Museum of Art.
Bio
Shaun Gilmore works in mixed media and has spent a significant portion of her life as an artist in the world of motion and modern dance. From 1980- 1991 she was based in Chicago and worked as a dancer, choreographer and asst. director of The Chicago Moving Company. Movement in space has become central to her work as an artist and she will be forever grateful for the unique perspectives that dance & performance have opened up to her.
Ms. Gilmore graduated with honors from the University of Michigan with a BFA in painting and photography. She has since studied Painting with Squeak Carnwath and Susan Rothenburg at The Santa Fe Art Institute and photography with Barbara Crane at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Her work has been represented & shown by EightModern and Linda Durham Contemporary Art in New Mexico, Perimeter Gallery in Chicago, CFA Gallery in San Anselmo, CA, Chiaroscuro Gallery in AZ, and The New Mexico Museum of Art.
Statement
When I was 7 years old I spent a lot of time in trees. My family had just moved back from 7 years in Rome and there was an adjustment in starting first grade at an elementary school in Michigan. I was teased mercilessly for my ‘funny’ accent. To escape this shifting feeling of displacement, I climbed trees and tried to find my equilibrium again. It was a way of hiding and seeking, all at the same time.
I lost that funny accent pretty quickly but I never lost my love of sitting in trees. More recently I spend my time looking up at trees and being underneath or around them. It’s rare that I climb into a tree, but I work in a studio surrounded by century old Cottonwoods and their rugged, obstinate presence is an ongoing inspirational anchor. I can still imagine sitting on a branch and listening to the air breathe.
Now I make things in the form of sculpture, paintings, drawings and room size installations. More and more, these objects take on a visual relationship to trees, growth and organic forms from nature. In fact, a recent and continuing sculpture series is called BRANCHING OUT and it uses papier mache as its’ main material. Paper comes from trees and in the layering process I use to build these structures, there is a metaphor of returning to TREE.
The work of making these things keeps me connected to trees, to the land where trees grow and to my own place in their shadow.
