Contact
jessieshinn1@gmail.com
Recent Solo Exhibitions
2020 Jessie Shinn, Untitled Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2016 Light, Shadow, Silence, Tucson Pima Arts Council, Pioneer Building, Tucson, AZ
Selected Recent Group Exhibitions
2022 Yadkin Arts Council's 2022 Juried Exhibition, Cultural Arts Center, Yadkinville, NC
2022 South Carolina Festival of Flowers Juried Art Show, The Arts Center of Greenwood, SC
2022 City Hall Exhibit, The Mayor’s Gallery, The Arts Fdn. for Tucson and Southern AZ
2021 Reflections, Untitled Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2021 Emergence. Untitled Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2020 Art as Resilience, Resistance and Respite, Untitled Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2019 Monthly exhibitions at Untitled Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2018 Arizona Biennial, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2018 Arizona Otherworldly, Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2018 Mujeres, Mujeres, Mujeres, Raices Taller, Tucson, AZ
2017 Arizona Abstract, Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2017 City Lights, The Mayor’s Gallery, The Arts Fdn. for Tucson and Southern Arizona
2017 The Art of Planetary Science, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2017 Glass, New York Center for Photographic Art, Online Gallery
2017 ¡Ay Qué Calor! Raices Taller, Tucson, AZ
2017 All Art Arizona, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ
2016 Cactus and Clouds, The Galleria at the YW, Tucson, AZ
2016 Aguas Sagradas, Raices Taller, Tucson, AZ
2016 All Art Arizona, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ
2016 Symbiosis, Environmental and Natural Resources, University of AZ, Tucson, AZ
2015 Taking Flight, Birds in Art, Tohono Chul Park, Tucson, AZ
2015 Surrealismo, Raices Taller, Tucson, AZ
2015 All Things Paper, Raices Taller, Tucson, AZ
2015 Dark Shadows, Lower Link Gallery, Tucson International Airport, Tucson, AZ
2014 Night Visions V, Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, AZ
2014 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
2014 just one example of the total wrongness of something I tend to be automatically sure of, Ely Walker Gallery, St. Louis
2014 Learning from Donald Judd, Beverly, St. Louis, MO
2013 Parabola, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2013 Stop, Fast, Slow, Scottsdale Civic Center, Scottsdale, AZ
Teaching
2014–2020 Adjunct Professor, Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ
Courses Taught: Drawing I, Basic Design, Art and Visual Culture, Writing Foundations
2018-2019 Adjunct Professor, Online, Klamath Community College, Klamath Falls, OR
Courses Taught: Modern Art History - 19th Century Art in Europe; Modern Art History - Art Since 1945
Awards and Recognition
2022 Third Place, Juror's Award, Yadkin Arts Council's 2022 Juried Exhibition
2020 Nominee, Buffalo Exchange Visual Arts Award, Community Fdn. for Southern Ariz.
2017 Curator’s Choice, The Art of Planetary Science, University of Ariz. Museum of Art
2017 Honorable Mention, Glass, New York Center for Photographic Art
2012 Recipient of the de Compiegne-Wallace Foundation Scholarship
2012 University of Arizona Nominee, Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Arts Award
Education
2014 MFA Visual Art, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
2009 BFA Studio Art, Magna cum Laude, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
1995 BA Creative Writing, Magna cum Laude, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Other Professional Experience
2019-2021 Untitled Gallery, Tucson, AZ. Founding member of collectively run non-profit gallery.
2016-2017 Member, Public Art Panel, The Arts Fdn. for Tucson and Southern Arizona
2009 - 2012, 2014 – 2015 Gail T. Roberts Studio, Tucson, AZ. Studio Assistant
2001-2006 Tucson Audubon Society, Tucson, AZ. Director, Institute of Desert Ecology,
2005-2006 Tucson Audubon Society, Tucson, AZ. Operations Manager
2002-2005 Tucson Audubon Society, Tucson, AZ. Assistant to the Executive Director
2001 Catalina Foothills Community Schools, Tucson, AZ. Summer Program Coordinator
1996-2000 Sahuaro Girl Scout Council, Tucson, AZ. Hacienda Program Center Coordinator and Volunteer Coordinator