Shara
Hannah Shadowspeaker is a multi-media artist who works with found objects that
already embody a history as well as traditional and non-traditional artist’s
materials. Shara's 2-D and 3-D artwork often incorporates layers of text,
line, and the body. Her work has been reviewed and featured in THE
magazine published in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Shadowspeaker was one of 14 artists selected by Judy Chicago for the 2008 show "Feminists Under 40", held at her gallery Through the Flower in Belen, New Mexico.
Shadowspeaker's
artwork has been exhibited in galleries, art fairs, and symposiums in Los
Angeles, Orange County, Oakland, San Francisco, Albuquerque, Chicago, and
Paris. She is a member of the Brooklyn Museum’s Elizabeth A. Sackler
Center for Feminist Art: Feminist Art Base, an on-line artist registry. Her
artwork is also held in numerous private collections. Shadowspeaker
received a Bank of America Art Excellence Award in 1991 for accomplishments in
music, foreign language and fine art. She also received a grant from the
University of New Mexico in 2008 for research in the Czech Republic related to
her Masters thesis exhibition.
Shara
was born in 1973 in Southern California. She graduated with a BFA in
Drawing and Painting in 1998 from CSU Fullerton. Two years prior, in 1996,
Shara studied a semester at the Sorbonne University of Paris and the Otis
Parson's School of Design in Paris, France. During her final semester at CSU
Fullerton, she moved to The Brewery in downtown Los Angeles: the oldest, legal,
live/work artists' community in Los Angeles. Surrounded by over 300
working artists, Shara gained many valuable business and networking skills as
well as the pleasure of working amongst a thriving artists' community.
Continuing to answer the call
for deeper learning, travel and adventure, Shara moved to Chicago in the fall
of 2003 for a one-year post-baccalaureate certificate in studio program at The
School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She returned to the Bay Area
briefly before relocating to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to study her Masters in
Art Education at the University of New Mexico. Calling both the Bay Area and Albuquerque home, Shara continues to teach Visual Art to TK/K through 12th grade students and create her artwork.
