Michael Shaughnessy
gathered, bound and woven
Selected Exhibitions: * Connotes Individual
2011 Lehman Art Gallery “Sticks and Stones” Lehman College, Bronx, New York
Portland Museum of Art Biennial
2009 Craft Alliance of St. Louis,“Hand Over Hand”*
2007 Waterfall Arts, Belfast Maine “Waterfall Suite” *
Bates College Museum of Art “ Green Horizons”
2005 Mesa Contemporary Art, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa Arizona, “Spring Cut”*
2002 Dairy Barn: Southeastern Ohio Arts and Cultural Center, Athens, Ohio, "First Ground Revisited" *
2001 Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado "Divine Flow"*
Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming "The Rake of Western Light"*
2000 SPACE Gallery, Portland, Maine
1999 Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln Massachusetts. "On the Ball: The Sphere in Contemporary Art"
University of Memphis, Art Museum, “Cords and Crossings”*
1998 Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, K.C. Mo “Home Land”*
1997 Forum for Contemporary Art, St Louis, Missouri " KC/3D"
Indiana State University, Terra Haute, “Crossing Middle Night”*
1996 Rice University, Houston, Texas “An Coin Ardaugh” (Gentle Rise)*
1995 Portland Museum of Art, Maine, "Perspective Series, A Sense of Place"
Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, "Fada Dan (Long Bound)” *
Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, Bingham Art Gallery, "The Flight of the Wren” *
Wheaton College, Norton, MA “In the Shadow of Lace” *
Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL “At the Time of Farewell” *
1994 Deleware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, "Branwen's Triad"*
Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania "For Well Tended Land"*
Exit Art/First World, New York, New York "Garden of Sculptural Delights"
Art Gallery, Univ. of Southern Maine, "Private Libraries: Watershed Colloquy"
1993 Quincy Art Center, Quincy, Illinois. "The Quiet Weight of Early Passing” *
University of Maine/Farmington Art Gallery, Farmington, "Views of Nature"
Decordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts "11 Artists/11 Visions: 1992"
Maine Coast Artists, Rockland, Maine. "Seneca"*
1992 Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (S.E.C.C.A.), Winston-Salem, NC, “Common Grace"*
Museum of Contemporary Art/Chicago, Illinois “Two Rings / Gathered Rising”, Art at the Armory: Occupied Territory
Penn. College of Art and Design, Lancaster. “A Place of Common Reside”*
1991 Saint Mary's College, South Bend, Indiana “Michael Shaughnessy, Installation and Sculptures”*
1990 Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, “Village Pale”*
Zoller Gallery, Penn State University, State College, "Holding Home" *
The Hyde Park Art Center, "Insights", Chicago, Illinois “Insights”
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
"The Boat Show: Fantastic Vessels, Fictional Voyages"
University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas, “Installation and Sculpture”
1989 The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York “Michael Shaughnessy”*
Fort Lauderdale Art Museum, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
"The Boat Show, Fantastic Vessels, Fictional Voyages"
Milk Street Gallery/University of Southern Maine Art Gallery, Portland, “The Maine Mystique”
Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, Maine "Voyages of the Modern Imagination: The Boat in Contemporary Art”
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska “In Sites”
1988 Spaces, Cleveland, Ohio “Nomad” *
Barn Gallery, Ogunquit, Maine “Emmaus” *
Gallery 10, Washington, D.C. “Wake of a Small Field” *
1987 Boulder Center for the Visual Arts, Boulder, Colorado, “Michael Shaughnessy Installation and Sculpture” *
International Conference on Sculpture Dublin, Ireland "Fiber 88"
Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania, "Three Sculptors"
Monroe Art Center, Monroe, Wisconsin (outdoor installation)
P.S. 1, New York City, New York "Studio Artists Exhibition"
1986 Northeast Missouri State University, Kirksville, Missouri, “Gethsemane” *
School of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, Missouri, “New State”*
University of Colorado / Colorado Springs, Colorado (outdoor installation)
C.A.G.E (Cincinnati Artists Group Effort), Ohio, "Sing a Song of Quetzals”
Coker College, Hartsville, South Carolina
Drury College, Springfield, Missouri
Minor Injury Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, “HiStory”
Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas
Artpark: New York State park for the Arts, Lewiston, New York
Parson School of Design, New York , New York
Brands Art Library Gallery, Los Angeles, California
"Artquest '86" First place in Sculpture
Lenexa National 3-Dimensional Art Exhibiton, Lenexa, Kansas
1985 Missouri Western State College, St. Joseph, MO, “New Works”*
State Fair Community College, Sedalia, Missouri “Installation”*
ARC/RAW Space, Chicago, Illinois “Quiet Prayers Toward Constancy”*
1708 East Main, Richmond, Virginia, “Peninsula”*
Kansas City Artists Coalition Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, *“Hill”
Residencies and Lectures:
Museums and Contemporary Art Centers
2007 Waterfall Arts, Belfast Maine
2005 Mesa Arts Center, Mesa Arizona,
2002 Dairy Barn: Southeastern Ohio Arts and Cultural Center, Athens, Ohio
1998 Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
1997 Forum for Contemporary Art
1995 Portland Museum of Art
1994 Delaware Center for Contemporary Art,
1993 Maine Coast Artists
Quincy Art Center
1992 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (Panelist)
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art
Decordova Museum of Art
1990 Portland Museum of Art
1985 Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Friends of Art
Colleges and Universities
2007 Bates College
2006 Montserrat College of Art
2005 Maine College of Art
Arizona State University
1999 Colorado State University,
Kresge Art Museum, Michigan Sate University,
Wyoming Art Museum
1999 University of Memphis, Art Museum,
University of Missouri, Columbia
1997 Kansas City Art Institute
University of Colorado / Boulder
Indiana State University
1996 Rice University
Elgin Community College
Wheaton College
1994 Millersville University
1993 University of Maine at Farmington
1992 Pennsylvania College of Art and Design
1991 Saint Mary's College
1990 Virginia Commonwealth University
Pennsylvania State University
University of Nebraska/Lincoln
University of Central Arkansas
1988 Kutztown University
University of New Hampshire
1987 Haystack School for the Visual Arts
1986 Maryland Art Institute, Graduate Program
Northeast Missouri State University
Arkansas State University
School of the Ozarks
1986 University of Colorado/Colorado Springs
Drury College
Coker College
1985 Kansas City Art Institute - Foundations Program
Virginia Commonwealth University
State Fair Community College, Sedalia, Missouri
