Shawn Nordfors 

  Selected Exhibitions 

2008  

Heads (dis)Embodied, curated by Jim McDonald, Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland WA             

Alumni Art Show, North Seattle Community College                  

Encroachment, (with T. Michael Gardiner and Alex Branch) Artech, Seattle,WA 

2007  

Contemporary Portraiture From the City of Seattle Collection, curated by Debora Paine,Seattle Municipal Building.Seattle,WA                              

Alumni Sculpture Invitational, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle WA 

2006            

Missing Links (with T. Michael Gardiner), 2 Bells, Seattle, WA 

2005            

Sea-Tac Invitational, Sea-Tac International Airport, Sea-Tac, WA                    

 Nordic Artists NW, Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, WA 

2004            

Cornish  Alumni Show, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle WA 

2003                 

Solo Exhibit, C.O.C.A. (Center on Contemporary Art) Seattle,WA   

Carl and Hilda Morris Foundation Young Artist Exhibition, Laura Russo Gallery, Portland,OR..                              

2002            

Solo Exhibit, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA

Round Midnight, Inspired by Music, Seattle Art Museum Rental/Sales Gallery, Seattle, WA

Seattle Art Museum's Gardens of Art Sculpture Exhibition, Seattle, WA 

2001                

Solo Exhibit, Artech Fine Art Services, Seattle, WA                        

Art Equinox, A Regional Survey of Contemporary Art, Paris Gibson Square Museum, Great Falls, MT                          

Passion Points, Curated by Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Mahlum Architects, Seattle, WA

NW  Wood,  Gallery @ Madison Audio,Seattle, WA 2000                

Decoys, Contemporary Wood Carving (With John Buck, Ed Wicklander, Dan Webb and others.)Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA                  

Seattle Collects 2000, Key Tower Gallery, Seattle, WA

Emerging Artist Open House, Mahlum Architects, Seattle, WA 1999                 

Solo Exhibit, Bailey Boushay House Seattle, WA

Solo Exhibit, Baas Gallery Seattle, WA

Alumni Group Show,  Cornish College, Seattle,WA

Arts Edge, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA

95Th National Open,  (2nd place,) Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA

Our Community Our Culture, (With Jacob Lawrence, James Washington Jr.and Paul Dusenbury) Bon Marché, Seattle, WA

Emerging Artist Show, Art Space, Shoreline Arts Commission, Shoreline, WA 

1998                

Arts Edge Seattle Center, Seattle, WA

 BFA Exhibition Cornish BFA Studios, Seattle, WA 

1997                

Solo Exhibit, Judith Schor Gallery, Seattle, WA

 Education

1998  

BFA Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA 

Honors

2003                       

Fullbright Scholar Award

2000                       

Seattle Arts Commission Seattle Collects Award

1999                       

Ruth Chenven Foundation award recipient

Artist Trust GAP Grant recipient

1993-97

   Recipient of the Kreielsheimer Scholarship

 Lectures

Slide Show, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA for art department.

Wood Carving, a Medium for Expression to students of the University of Puget Sound and the public at Kittredge Gallery.

Tribute to Paul Dusenbury, at the Un-veiling of the sculpture Portrait of Paul Dusenbury at Eckstein Middle School.

Dreaming and Painting, to the patients and their families at Baily Boushay House.

My Art, a lecture on my work at an informal ceremony for the presentation of a mask created for the theater dept. at Cornish College. 

Curatorial Work

Decoys, Contemporary Wood Carving Kittredge Gallery,University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA 

Publications

Cornish Alumni Show, by  M. Kangas (photo), Seattle Times, January,2004

The Stranger, Newspaper cover Vol.12 No. 01 September 19-25, 2002

Head Trip, by R. Hacket, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 18, 2002

Seattle Weekly, July 18, 2002

Much Goes on in Nordfors' Heads, Seattle Times, july 12,2002

Seattle Post-Intelligencer, (photo) June 28, 2002

Evening Magazine, Sites of Aroura, King 5 Television, May 6, 2002

Art Access Magazine, April 2001

Seattle Post-intelligencer, April 20, 2001

The More You Know About Art and Guinness, The Tacoma News Tribune, November 12,2000