Sana Shaw

Artist Statement
My art is a reflection of the nerve of the era (zeitgeist). It rethinks the complex processes of searching for a new world order through social and military crises.
The prematurely proclaimed “end of history” did not happen, the “grand narratives” returned and changed our ideas about the world - it is now seen as unpredictable and unreliable. The philosophical paradigm of our time is in a state of oscillation and simultaneity between the opposing aspects of the cultural codes of previous eras and modernity.

We find ourselves at the intersection of the collapse of the old and the construction of a new world. The interdisciplinary approach of the metamodernist artist allows me to observe this transition and explore it comprehensively from the point of view of my constant interests: politics, psychology, sociology, futurology.

That is why my art creates tension and conflict, while simultaneously showing a way out of it through a combination of contrasting phenomena: destruction and creation, clarity and ambiguity, irony and sincerity, relativism and the need to make choices.

My visual language is expressed predominantly by a black and white palette and non-artistic industrial materials embedded in the space of the ...

1. Master's degree in Design from the Ural State Architecture and Art Academy. Russia, Yekaterinburg.
2. Master's degree in Graphic Arts from the Moscow University of Printing. Russia, Moscow.
3. Bachelor's degree in Printing Technology from the Lviv Poligraphic College. Ukraine. Lviv.

2024 - The Other Art Fair Dallas
2023 - Miami Art Basel Week. Synergy Art Fair Exhibition
2023 - Sabin Street Studios Gallery. Viva Magenta. Houston, USA
2023 - Luxembourg Art Prize 2023
2023 - Group Exhibition in Polk County Memorial Museum. Livingston, TX, USA
2023 - SOLO Exhibition, personal studio-gallery Silver Street Studios, Houston, USA
2023 - Sabin Street Studios West Gallery. Tropical Summer Dreams Show. Houston, USA
2022 - Sabin Street Studios West Gallery. A Blissful Abyss Show. Houston, USA
2022 - Silver Street Studios. Salon d Art Show. Houston, USA
2022 - SOLO Exhibition, personal studio-gallery Silver Street Studios, Houston, USA
2022 - CAL International Invitational Show. Conroe, TX, USA
2021 - LSAG Convention. A Virtual Show
2021 - Madeley Gallery. Spring Judged Show. Conroe, TX, USA
2020 - Spring Judged LSAG Show. Conroe, TX, USA
2019 - Madeley Gallery Fall Judged Show, Conroe, USA
2019 - Lone Star Show. Houston, USA
2019 - WASH Gallery. January Judged Exhibition. Houston, USA
2018 - Luxembourg Art Prize 2018
2018 - CAL Fall 2018 Judged Show. Conroe, TX, USA
2018 - CAL 3rd Annual National Invitational Show, Conroe, USA
2018 - 41st International Watermedia Exhibition, Houston, USA
2017 - WASH Gallery. Annua...