Shannon Pawliw

Shannon Pawliw (b. 1970, Saskatoon, Canada) works in painting, sculpture, and site-specific installation. Her work is colourful, immersive, and bold to the point of being cartoonish. Both the painted and 3D work is rooted in organic forms and gesture.

Pawliw works in exploratory series that are undertaken with the explicit intent of creating fantasy-based objects built around ideas, practices, and concepts that fascinate her. These ideas and concepts are as diverse as nostalgia, memory, family, loss, and microbes. They tend to involve an immersive (and often obsessive) years-long study of the subject. But ultimately, her work is firmly rooted in optimism and naïveté.

Bachelor of Fine Art, Concordia University, Montreal (2002)

2022 – THIS Gallery | solo exhibit – painting | Vancouver, BC
2021 – Stretch Vancouver | solo exhibit – painting | Vancouver, BC
2021 – Gibsons Public Art Gallery | solo exhibit - multi-media and sculpture | Gibsons, BC
2020 – Yactac | virtual group exhibition - painting | Internet (Covid-19 Lockdown)
2016 – Stretch Vancouver | solo exhibit – painting | Vancouver, BC
2015 – Stanley Park Manor | Art at the Manor | group exhibit | Vancouver, BC
2004 – AKA Artist Run Centre | Mouth To Mouth | solo exhibit | Saskatoon, SK
2003 to present – An Archive of Lost Things | web exhibit
2002 – Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery | Dust | undergraduate group exhibit | Montreal, PQ
2002 – Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery | Mills Purchase Prize recipients exhibit | Montreal, PQ
2002 – REaD | Sandra Goldie Gallery | group | Montreal, PQ
2001 – Concordia VAV Gallery | Domestic Monuments | group exhibit curated by Marisa Portolese and Geneviève Cadieux | Montreal, PQ
2002 – S.P.I.N. Gallery | Let’s Have a Dream, Piece to Peace | charity art auction organized by Tomo Lennon and Yoko Ono | Toronto, ON
2002 – Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition | Toronto, ON
2002 – Cafe Vienne | FED | group exhibit | Montreal, PQ
2002 – Gallery 1849 | Pretty St...