Portrait of Jesse- Sprint Car Mechanic Painting

. Biography for artist Shelley RothenburgerShelley was born and raised in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada and now resides in Vancouver, B.C. Canada. She began formal studies in art in 1989 at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay and graduated with an Honours Bachelor of Fine Art in 1995 majoring in Painting. She continued her art education in 1997 upon entering Graduate School at the University of Alberta in Edmonton and completed her formal studies with a Master of Fine Art degree in painting in 2000.She has had multiple solo, juried and group exhibitions nation wide, most noted being a juried exhibition at the Art Gallery on Ontario in Toronto in 1996 and a solo exhibition at the Nickel Museum in Calgary in 2000. Her work is represented in the University of Alberta Master of Fine Art Collection and in private, regional, national and international collections.Her professional experience includes teaching, serving as a jury member, serving on art gallery committees and board of directors, co-founding and organizing an annual art collective event, and exhibition design for various galleries.Shelley has been awarded the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Graduate Scholarship Award, The Mary Louis Imrie Graduate Student Award, three Lakehead University Juried Exhibition Awards and several provincial Exhibition Assistance Grants.