SHAWN SERFAS
CURRICULUM VITAE
Formal Education 2003 2002 2000
Master of Fine Arts Degree (M.F.A.), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Bachelor of Arts Degree (B.A.), Major in Art History, Graduated with Great Distinction University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (B.F.A.), Graduated with Great Distinction and Distinguished Thesis Exhibition, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Research Expertise
Contemporary painting, drawing and printmaking practices concerning relational bstraction,environmental aesthetics, religion, the landscape as well as issues bordering abstraction and representation.
Academic Positions Held 2021- 2012-2021
2004-2012
Associate Professor, Department of Creative Studies, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies University of British Columbia Associate Professor, Department of Visual Arts, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, Brock University Lecturer, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, University of British Columbia
Research Affiliates
Associate, Research Centre in Interdisciplinary Arts and Creative Culture, Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, Brock University
Creative / Scholarly Research Exhibitions and Curatorial Projects (Selected)
2020 2019 2018 2017
Industrial Niagara, Group Exhibition, Rodman Hall Arts Centre, St. Catharines, Ontario Folding of Gesture, Solo Exhibition, Darrell Bell Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Rail Post, Group Exhibition, Front Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta Seeing Red, Group Exhibition, Darrell Bell Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Geographies of Process, Co-Curated with Catherine Parayre, Group Exhibition, Die Baeckerei, Innsbruck, Austria Grid Terrain, Solo Exhibition, Gallery MX, Montreal, Quebec Pseudo-Fiction (with Catherine Parayre), Pierre Leon Gallery, Alliance française de Toronto, Ontario Poost-Industrial Ephemera: Soundings, Gestures and Poetics, Group Exhibition, Silo-City, Buffalo, New York 52
