Biography

Shawn R. Camp was born in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. He attended the University of Idaho where he studied a wide range of disciplines, finally deciding on degrees in Art and Psychology.

In 1997 he completed work on his MFA in Painting and Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. He later moved to Tokyo for a one-year residence. Now Shawn Camp resides in Austin, where he is developing his painting career, playing lots of music, and teaching at Concordia University, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, and Austin Community College.

Shawn has presented his paintings, drawings, and collages in many solo and group exhibitions around the world.

Selected Exhibitions

2007

War: Artists Respond, Dougherty Art Center, Julia Buttridge Gallery, Austin, Texas.

Prime: Shawn Camp, Steve Dubov, John Langford, Heather Tolleson, Amy Scofield, Christophers, Marfa, Texas.

Art Matters, Art Alliance Austin, Curated by Till Richter, Ausitn, Texas.

From Here to There, M2 Gallery, Houston, Texas.

5x7 Show,Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas.

Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, Texas.

Quattro Artisti, Quattro Gallery, Austin, Texas.

Home, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, Austin, Texas.

Gallery 163, Dallas, Texas.

Paint, Artspoken, Austin, Texas.

2006

Layers, Shawn Camp and Caprice Pierucci Taniguchi, Davis Gallery, Austin, Texas.

Art plus Industry, Palm Springs, California.

Shawn Camp, Building 98 Ballroom, Marfa, Texas (Solo).

Terrain, RT Gallery, Austin, Texas (Solo).

Shawn Camp, Paintings Oveda Culp Gallery, Central Texas College, Killeen (Solo).

Post Geography: Sliver Paintings and Dots, Artillery Gallery, Austin, Texas (Solo).

Temporal Happiness, The Grand Opening and Closing of Aved Gallery, Austin, Texas.

Karaoke, Pump Project Gallery at Shady Tree Studios, Austin, Texas.

Protege, Saulsbury Gallery, Cultural Activities Center, Temple, Texas.

Basic Elements: Sensible and Intelligible Matter, Christophers, Chinati Open House Weekend 2006, Marfa, Texas.

Black and White, Artillery Gallery, Austin, Texas.

2005

A Tribute to Geography, Geology, and Time, 507b w. 37th, Austin, Texas.

A Multimedia Winter Exhibition, Art Center Waco, Waco, Texas.

Toys, Howard Gallery, Temple, Texas.

May Feature, Vin Gallery, Austin, Texas.

Art on the Avenue, Frost Bank Tower, Austin, Texas.

Austin Community College Faculty Exhibition, University of Texas Performing Arts Center, Austin, Texas.

Metropolitan Gallery, Austin, Texas.

2004

Terra Formo, New Work by Shawn R. Camp, Saulsbury Gallery, Cultural Activities Center, Temple, Texas (Solo).

Burn the Box Movement, Benefit Exhibition for the Austin Music Co-op,
Austin, Texas.


Contemporary Paintings, Concordia University Gallery, Austin, Texas.

Red Hot Red Dot Exhibition, Women and Their Work, Austin, Texas.

Texas Biennial 05 Benefit, Dougherty Art Center, Austin, Texas.


2003

Gallery in the Garden, Exhibition benefiting the Alzheimer's Association,
Governor’s Mansion, Austin, Texas.


Eclectic Gathering 2, The Gallery at the Guadalupe Art Center, Austin, Texas.

Abstractions: a Study in the Variations of What is Abstract, Halcyon, Austin, Texas.

Shawn Camp and Tobin Smith, Pango, Austin, Texas

Concordia University Faculty Exhibition, Concordia University Gallery, Austin, Texas.

Austin Visual Arts Association Mostly Annual Membership Exhibition, AVAA Gallery, Austin, Texas.


Paintings, 20/20 Gallery, Austin, Texas.

2002

Wet Paint, Artfarm Gallery, Austin, Texas (Solo).

Hallowed Ground, Gallery Lombardi, Austin, Texas.

Chairs, Concordia University Gallery, Austin, Texas.

2001

Underneath a Queen Sized Bed, Holly Matter Modern Art, Los Angeles,
California.


ACC Faculty Exhibition, Julia Buttridge Gallery,Dougherty Art Center, Austin, Texas.

2000

Chroma, Marylin Philby, Evanston, Illinois.

The Austin Art Scene, ACA Gallery, Austin, Texas.

1999

Paintings and Drawings, 1998-1999. Clockwork Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (Solo).

Awkward. Multi-media exhibition and performance event. Kyozon/Co- exist Exhibition Space. Tokyo, Japan.

1997

Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts Juried Exhibition. Juror: Neil Benezra, Curator Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC.

Anderson Gallery, Richmond, Virginia.

1996

Movable Feast Exhibition. Virginia Commonwealth University Sculpture
Department Gallery, Richmond, Virginia.

Education

MFA, Painting and Printmaking, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.

BS, Psychology, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho.

BFA, Painting, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho.

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