breanna shanahan
MFA, DIP FA.
education
2015-2019 Concordia University. Montreal, QC. Master of Fine Arts
2010-2015 Sheridan College of Arts and Design. Oakville, ON. Diploma in Fine Arts
2009-2015 University of Toronto. Honours in Art and Art History & Crime and Psych
select solo exhibitions
2024 UPCOMING: Solo exhibition Assembly Gallery (November) Hamilton, ON
2024 Green Prescriptions and Other Colours, Plate Glass Gallery (April- August) St. Catherines, ON
2023 Quarry I Come From, Moving Box Trailer performance in T’karonto supported by CAC Grant (May 10th)
2023 Green Prescriptions and Other Colours, Assembly Gallery, (May) Hamilton, ON
2021-2022 Shape, Seiche and Stranded Dulse, Vitrine Installation, MARCUS Restaurant Four Seasons (Nov-Jan) Montreal, QC.
2021 Zoom/ Apposite to the Times, La Chapelle Atelier et Galerie, (Aug-Sept) Bromont, QC.
2020 Reacher Weaver, FARO Gallery, (Feb) Montreal, QC.
2019 Bookending the Body, FOFA Gallery, (April-May) Montreal, QC.
2019 Aux Confins du Corps, La Chapelle Atelier Galerie, (Dec-Jan) Bromont, QC.
2018 Interrupted Imbricate, Wabi Sabi Warehouse, (Aug) Wilmington, NC USA.
2017 Les Corps exhibition, Archibald and Alistair Gallery (May-June) Montreal, QC.
2017 HomeHunting, Residency show Museum der Moderne, (Aug) Salzburg, Austria.
select group exhibitions
2024 Expressions, Mann Gallery (April- May) St. Catherines, ON.
2022 SWARM, Hamilton Artist Inc. Group show (Dec-Jan) Hamilton, ON.
2022 Weightless Entities, Centre_3 Select Member show (Aug) Hamilton, ON.
2022 The days draw in, Assembly Gallery Member show (June-July) Hamilton, ON.
2022 Sweetest Little Thing, STRUTS (Feb) Sackville, NB.
2021 Landscape and Escape, Ou Gallery (Postponed- COVID) Duncan, BC.
2021 Come from away, NB Created Here Gallery (June) Fredericton, NB.
2021 Sweetest Little Thing, STRUTS (Feb) Sackville, NB.
2020 Collection show, La Chapelle Galerie (Dec) Bromont, QC.
2019 Topological Media Lab Collective show, University of Toronto theater (Sept) Toronto, ON.
2018 Another Body Still Embryonic, La Sala Rosa (July) Montreal, QC.
2018 Sister City Collection, International Artist Center (May) Pengzhou, China.
2018 Dystopia, Gallery 2112 (July) Montreal, QC.
2018 Maureen III, Darling Foundry (May) Montreal, QC.
2017 Maureen II, Des Beaux Arts Atelier (May) Montreal, QC.
2017 Crafted, Oakville Hospital (Jan 2017- Jan 2018) Oakville, ON.
awards
2023 Research Creation Canada Art Council Grant with Artist Collective QO (Quite Ourselves)
2021 Digital Now Canada Council Grant with Artist Collective QO (Quite Ourselves)
2020-21 McCain Post-Doctoral Fellowship Mt. Allison University Sackville, NB
2020-21 Power Plant Virtual Artist in Residence, Toronto, ON
2019 Concordia Conference and Exposition Grant
2018 Hitting the High Notes Fellowship
2017 & 18 Invited to the International Golden Key Honour Society II & III
2017 SSHRC CGS Recipient: Joseph Armond Bombardier Scholarship
residencies
2024 ALCHEMY Artist Residency (August) Prince Edward County, ON. Canada.
2019 Wabi-Sabi Warehouse Artist in Resience. (June) Wilmington, NC. USA
2018 China Sister-City Residency representing Oakville. (May) Pengzhou, China.
2017 First recipient Jorisch Family Artist Residency, (August) Salzburg, Austria.
conferences
2024 UPCOMING: Prepositioning learning: threshold concepts in various art education contexts NSCAD University (June 2024) Halifax, QC
2024 UPCOMING: A Teacher Collective’s Positioning that Mistakes Matter in An Engaged Art Classroom NSCAD University (June 2024) Halifax, QC.
2024 UPCOMING: Threshold Concepts Art Students Must Cross: Perspectives from Educators. McGill University (June 2024)
2023 Arts in Society. Krakow, Poland. About the Elephant in the Room: Making the Problems of Confidence and Resilience the Focus in Art Classrooms. (July)
2023 AMPS. Toronto, ON. Analog Teachers in the Digital Realm: Three Artist-Educators Teaching Community Art Classes On-Line (April)
2023. AMPS. Toronto, ON. The Welcomed Problem: Centering the Ends to develop the means in art education. (April 27th)
publications
2024 Shanahan, B, LeRue, D, Kim, J, Long, N (January 2024) The Welcomed Problem: Centring the Ends to Develop the Means in Art Education Conference. AMPS: Applying Education in a Complex World At: Sheridan College, Ontario Volume: 33.1, 9.
2023 LeRue, D, Wells, C, Urquhart, K, Kim, J, Shanahan, B, Arsenault-May, S, Kuehn, N (November 2023) Community-Based Art Education in a Pandemic World: Maintaining and Building an “Art-Home” in a Time of Isolation. In book: Arts Education: A Global Affair. Publisher: Brill
2021 Shanahan, Breanna, “Cats in Boxes” QO (Quite Ourselves) supported by Digital Now Canada Council Grant. December 11 2021, https://quiteourselves.com/Moving-Box
2021 Shanahan, B, Proximity to Stranger (2021) Æ : The Graduate Journal Art Ed
2021 Shanahan, B. Proximity to Stranger. NB Created Here Magazine: Come from away
2020 Tilting AIR Residency, Arts and Minds Publication. Fogo Island AIR.
2017 Art Rendez-vous et Architecture Publication. Montréal, QC.
experience and presentations
2024 UPCOMING: ARTIST WORKSHOP: Daily Art Practice and All things INK at the Niagara Artists Centre (Part of In The Soil Festival) (June)
2023 ARTIST WORKSHOP: Daily Art Practice at the Art Gallery of Burlington (Nov)
2023 ARTIST WORKSHOP: Daily Art Practice at the Art Gallery of Hamilton (Oct)
2022 WORKSHOP: Daily Art Practice in-person- Sculpture and Drawing in the expanded field. (June 23rd) The Pointe-St. Charles Art School, Montreal, QC.
2022 GUEST CRITIQUER: Carlo Sculpture 100 critiques, Sheridan College (June)
2022 MEMBER: Assembly Gallery Artist Collective members.
2022 MEMBER: Centre_3 member of Artist Collective
2021 ARTIST TALK: (Nov 17th) NSCAD University Halifax, NS.
2021 ARTIST TALK: (July) La Chapelle Atelier Galerie Bromont, QC
2020- 21 JOB: PIXLS Coordinator, Concordia University. Montreal, QC.
2021 GUEST LECTURER: Pointe-St.Charles Art School. Montreal, QC
2019 - 2021 JOB: Student Skills and Development Coordinator (full-time), Office of the Dean. Concordia University. Montreal, QC.
2018 - 2020 JOB: Technician Fabrication Woodshop, Concordia U (E.V 8.705)
2019 ARTIST TALK: at La Chapelle Atelier Galerie Bromont, QC
2017 - 2019 JOB: Team-Lead Technician Digital Fabrication Lab, Concordia University (E.V 8.435) Running a team of 5 part-time digifab technicians
2018 MEMBER: Topological Media Lab
2018 MEMBER: of QO Artist Collective (Quite Ourselves)
2018 ARTIST TALK: at ArtADDRESS Oakville, ON run by Tazeen Qayyum
2018 JOB: Created and Developed SAPlings (Shop Assistant Program) <www.saplingsconcordia.weebly.com> Concordia University. Montreal, QC.
2018 JOB: Head Coordinator of Moonshot Event: Future of Fine Arts Spaces.
2018 JOB: Head Coordinator of Project Fieldwork: 12 students, 2 exhibitions.
2018 JOB: Head Coordinator of IdeaLabs x 3 events Concordia University.
2018 CURATOR: STACK EFFECT 9. First ever juried and funded GSA show.
2017 - 2018 JOB: Director of Fine Arts (Representing 350 Graduate Students) GSA
2017 ASSISTANT CURATOR: MFA show Maureen II
2017 GUEST CRITIQUER: for Bronze casting course year end critiques with instructor Natalie Nadeau. Concordia University. Montreal, QC.
2016 - 2020 JOB: Technician Digital Fabrication Lab, Concordia U (E.V 8.435)
2016 ARTIST ASSISTANT: to Shary Boyle. Specialization- plaster work.
academic appointments
Winter 2024 Drawing IV, Brock University, St. Catherines, ON
Winter 2024 Techno Craft, Sheridan College, Oakville, ON
Winter 2024 3D Design (Section II and III)
Winter 2024 Advanced Sculpture, Sheridan College, Oakville, ON
Fall 2023 Foundations in 2D and 3D, Brock University, St. Catherines, ON
Fall 2023 Introduction to Figurative Sculpture, Sheridan College, Oakville, ON (Sections II, III)
Winter 2023 Figurative Sculpture, Sheridan College, Oakville, ON (Sections II, III)
Winter 2023 Figurative Drawing, Sheridan College, Oakville, ON
Spring 2023 Daily Art Practice (Virtual Extended Studies) NSCAD University. Halifax, NS.
Spring 2023 Daily Art Practice and the Milk of Dreams (Online class) Pointe St.Charles Arts School. Montreal, QC.
Fall 2022 Introduction to Figurative Sculpture, Sheridan College, Oakville, ON (Sections I, II, III)
Fall 2022 Daily Art Practice (Virtual Extended Studies) NSCAD University. Halifax, NS.
Winter 2022 Foundations in Wood and Metal (In-person) NSCAD University. Halifax, NS: Wood specialization: (Sections I, III, VI, VIII)
Winter 2022 Daily Art Practice (Online class) Pointe St.Charles Arts School. Montreal, QC.
Fall 2021 Drawing 2 (In-person) NSCAD University, Halifax NS.
Fall 2021 Daily Art Practice (Online class) Pointe St.Charles Art School. Montreal, QC.
2020/21 Post-Doctoral McCain Fellow teaching at Mt. Allison University. Sackville, NB:
Sculpture 100 (Hybrid, In-person and online asynchronous)
Sculpture 300 (Hybrid, In-person and online asynchronous)
4th year Independent studio Mentor for 2 sculpture students.
Drawing 100 (Online)
Drawing 200 (In-person),
Drawing 300 (In-Person)
Fall 2018 Drawing 200 (Drawing 1) Professor at Concordia University. Montreal, QC.
Fall 2017 Sculpture 210 (Sculpture 1) Concordia University. Montreal, QC.
press
2021 L’artiste Breanna Shanahan de retour à Bromont: La Voix de L’est. 2021-08-10 https://www.lavoixdelest.ca/2021/08/10/lartiste-breanna-shanahan-de-retour-a-bromont-b395ae26bf78231b78e6f0a19233f7e2/
2019 La Galerie D’art Chapelle vers les grands Circuits: Tourisme Bromont, QC. 2019-07-20 https://tourismebromont.com/nouvelle/la-galerie-dart-chapelle-vers-les-grands-circuits/
2019 Breanna Shanahan à La Chapelle de Bromont: La Voix de L’est. 2019-07-16 https://www.lavoixdelest.ca/2019/07/16/breanna-shanahan-a-la-chapelle-de-bromont-21d1566bdfa5eed6ea9916a2dfcdf80c/
2018 ArtAddress <http://www.artaddress.ca/living-room-artists-presents/> 2018-11-19
2017 First Jorisch Family Artist Residency Award given to Breanna Shanahan. 2017-04-12 https://www.concordia.ca/cunews/finearts/2017/04/jorisch-family-artist-residency-award-announced.html
2017 Concordia student bridges two cultures as artist in residence in Salzburg, CTV. https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/concordia-student-bridges-two-cultures-as-artist-in-residence-in-salzburg-1.3584222#:~:text=A%20Concordia%20student%20feels%20incredibly,Salzburg's%20Museum%20of%20Modern%20Art.
2017 Concordia MFA Publication. Montreal, QC.