Shanon Playford paints in her native Portland, Oregon.
Received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and attended the School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston..
exhibitions
2017
Peoples Art of Portland, Portland, Oregon – group, Big 500
2015
Peoples Art of Portland, Portland, Oregon – group, Big 500
Portland Open Studios, Portland, Oregon
2014
ArtSpot International @ Spectrum Miami Art Show – December 3 – 7, 2014 – solo art project, Oh My Gods
People’s Art, Portland, Oregon – group, Icons
Oranj Studio, Portland, Oregon – solo, Oh My Gods
2013
Peoples Art of Portland, Portland, Oregon – group, Big 400
Portland Open Studios, Portland, Oregon
2012
Springbox Gallery, Portland, Oregon – group, Annual Toy Show
Pearl Gallery & Framing, Portland, Oregon – solo, Various and Sundry
Springbox Gallery, Portland, Oregon – group, Neither Here Nor There
Cascade Aids Project Auction, Portland, Oregon – Special Collection
Denizen Gallery, Portland, Oregon – group, Devil and the Deep
2011
Littman Gallery, PSU, Portland, Oregon – group, Portland Visual Art Exchange
Spring Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon – group, Images for the Secret Society
Spendorporium, Portland, Oregon – group, Five Person Invitational Show
Muse Art & Design, Portland, Oregon – benefit live painting & auction event
2010
Splendorporium, Portland, Oregon – group, The Tarot Show
Errata Gallery, Portland, Oregon – group, Menagerie
Beet Gallery, Portland, Oregon – solo, Paintings
Froelick Gallery, Portland, Oregon – group, Two of a Kind
2009
Ogle, Portland, Oregon – solo, XX: Janes, Dames, Saints, Chicks, Crones, Babes, Birds, Bitches and Others
2008
Chemeketa College Art Gallery, Salem, Oregon – group, The Presence of Absence
PiP Gallery, Portland, Oregon – group, More Dreams of Men
2007
Beet Gallery, Portland, Oregon – solo, Dreams of Men
Tower Fine Arts Gallery, Brockport, New York – group, Not Right: Artists Altering Natural Schemes
Art for Progress, New York, New York – group, jury selection, Clash of the Artists
M2 Gallery & Texas State Capitol, Austin, Texas – jury selections from Justice for All
2006
Gallery Lombardi, Houston, Texas – group, Justice for All
Utrecht, Portland, Oregon – group, Politics
2005
Froelick Gallery, Portland, Oregon – group, Self Portraits
2004
Froelick Gallery, Portland, Oregon – group, Clown Show
2003
Static Gallery, Liverpool, UK – group, Movement
1999
NFA Space, Chicago, Illinois – group, Lost and Found & Intimate
collections
Private & institutional collections in Chicago, Boston, New York, Milan, Los Angeles, Napa, New Haven, Kansas, Texas, Seattle, and Portland
education
BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
attended, School of the Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
attended, Museum School