CURRICULUM VITAE

Shauna Born

 

B. 1981

 

EDUCATION
2012 University of Waterloo, MFA Candidate
2004 Ontario College of Art and Design, BFA, Honours

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 (Upcoming) Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto, Canada
2009 Poses, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto, Canada
2007 We’re All Saints, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto, Canada
2006 This Pretty Face, Le Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2005 Stomach, Brain and Body, Le Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2004 Fitting Back Wall, Le Gallery, Toronto, Canada

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & ART FAIRS
2010
SCOPE Miami, Silas Marder Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA.
Aqua Art Miami, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary art Projects, Miami, Florida, US
Big Show 5, Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton NY, USA
She Feels it Alll, Mullherin Pollard Projects, New York, USA
Art With Heart, Casey House Art Auction, Toronto, Canada
2009
The Kingston Prize for Canadian Portraiture,
- Grand Theatre, Kingston.
- Acadia University Art Gallery, Wolfville.
- Waddington’s Auction Rooms, Toronto.
- Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary.
OCAD Emerging Artists Live Auction, Toronto, Canada
SCOPE Miami, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, USA
Heart At Work, Art Auction for the Casey House, The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
2008
Decade-10 Years of KM Projects, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto, Canada
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, 31 Grand, New York, USA
Scope New York, with Katharine Mulherin, New York, USA
CIRCA Puerto Rico, with Katharine Mulherin, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2007
Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Canada
Aqua Art Fair, Miami, USA
Scope New York, with Katharine Mulherin, New York, USA
Scope Basel, with Katharine Mulherin, Basel, Switzerland
ArtLA, with Katharine Mulherin, LA, USA
Other Moments, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Canada
2006
Pictures of Girls, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto, Canada
Toronto Alternative Art Fair, with Katharine Mulherin, Toronto, Canada
Art With Heart, Casey House Art Auction, Toronto, Canada
Humans, James Baird Gallery, Newfoundland, Canada
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto, Canada
Square Foot, AWOL Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2005
Square Foot New York, Project Spaceman with AWOL Gallery, Brooklyn, USA
Art With Heart, Casey House Art Auction, Toronto, Canada
Square Foot, AWOL Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto, Canada
Best Of, 2004 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition Award Winners, First Canadian Place Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2004
One, Le Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Square Foot, AWOL Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto, Canada
Naked at the Carwash and Painted Orange, OCAD Transit Space, Toronto, Canada
OCAD Graduate Exhibition, Toronto, Canada
Studio Operto, OCAD, Florence, Italy

AWARDS/GRANTS 
2009 Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant
2009 The Kingston Prize National Portrait Competition, Honourable Mention
2007 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
2001 The Christopher and Mary Pratt Award
2000 Governor General’s Medal (Academic)
 
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Toronto Life, Arts & Entertainment, David Balzer, July 2009.
The Star, ‘Tonight: Shauna Born at Katharine Mulherin’, Murray Whyte, August 13, 2009.
(t)ART, Currently Showing, Bill Clarke, May 2006.
The Globe and Mail, Gallery Going, Gary Michael Dault, March 26, 2005.
NOW Magazine, ‘Born Again Making Fans’, Kevin Temple, March 17-23, 2005.
 
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Canada
The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas, USA