Shawn Wilson

Shawn Wilson is a lifelong professional artist. A native Oklahoman, she moved to New York at 18 years old and within a short time was regularly selling her pen-and-ink drawings to New Yorker magazine. She studied sculpture at New York’s famed Art Students’ League, and has shown sculpture in galleries in New York, San Francisco and Atlanta.
Shawn also paints oil on canvas, and most notably, ‘sumi-é’, (Japanese ink-brush painting). She studied this ancient art form with one of the few bona fide masters here in the U.S., Koho Yamamoto of NYC. Sumi-é suits Shawn’s artistic abilities to a ‘t’, as her work in all mediums concentrates on the essence of the subject rather than the details.
While living in Tel Aviv, she received a grant from the State of Israel, and was also commissioned to paint a 30 ft. mural.
Between sumi-é, drawings, oil paintings and sculpture, Shawn’s work has been shown and sold in scores of one-woman and group showings and through commissioned work.

2011-present Represented by Gierek Fine Arts, Tulsa, OK
2011 Buttonwood ArtSpace, Kansas City, MO
2006-11 Represented by Pearl Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2007 May Rooms Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2006 Claussen Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2005 Space Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2004 May Rooms Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2000-03 Mayfest Invitational Gallery, Tulsa, OK
1998 Sumi-é mural commission in Tel Aviv, Israel
1997 Art grant from State of Israel
1997 Galleria Nechama, Tel Aviv
1996 Intersection Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995 Artspace, San Francisco, CA
1995 Mesa Gallery, San Francisco
1993 Squiggle Gallery, sculpture installation “Neon Fish”, San Francisco
1992 Sixth Sense Gallery, sculpture installation “Neon Fish”, New York, NY
1990-91 Bronze bought by Georgia Council of the Arts
McIntosh Gallery, Highland Gallery, Chastain Gallery, all in Atlanta, GA
1987-90 Numerous gallery showings of sumi-é in midwestern U.S.
Museum show of sumi-é at Oklahoma Museum of Art, Okla. City
1987 Sumi-é Society of America award
1986 Finalist in National Endowment for the Arts competition, “Art in Public Places”
1983-86 Represented by B. Volkman & Associates, agents in New York
1979-83 Drew for New Yorker magazine