CV
Born: Omaha, Nebraska, 1979
Lives: Long Beach, CA
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Education
2006- 2008 Laguna College of Art and Design, MFA Painting, Laguna Beach, CA
2002-2004 Emily Carr University, BFA Painting, Vancouver BC
2001 Academy of Art, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
1998-2002 Mesa Community College, Associate of Arts Degree, Mesa AZ
Studies
2008 Wes Christensen, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Stephen Douglas, Los Angeles, CA
2006 F. Scott Hess, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Peter Schuyff, Vancouver BC
1998-2001 Jim Garrison, Mesa, AZ
Exhibitions
2023
On the Shoulders of Giants, Buffalo History Museum, Buffalo NY
2022
Spring Break, Culver City CA
Retrato by TLALOC Studios, Los Angeles,CA
2021
Judson, Gothic to Street Style, Forest Lawn Museum, Glendale CA
2020
Elements, Art and Nature, Online Artsy.com
2019
Darkroom, Koplin Del Rio, Seattle, WA
Cartomancy, the Seni Horoscopes, Mesa Art Center, Mesa, AZ
2018
Pointed Permanence: The Art of Tattoo, Golden West College Art Gallery, Huntington Beach, CA
The Art of the Self, Golden West College Art Gallery, Huntington Beach, CA
Cartomancy, 2015-2018, 72 piece complete collection, solo show, The Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
2017
Love Letters, Basement Projects, Santa Ana, CA
Liberty, Koplin Del Rio, Seattle, WA
Tattoo, curated by the Long Beach Museum of Art, Art Exchange, Long Beach, CA
2016
Identity, Koplin Del Rio, Seattle, WA
Invitational Alumni Show, Mesa Art Gallery, Mesa, AZ
Vanitas, 3rd Street Art Studio, Long Beach, CA
2015
Shay Bredimus: Artist in Residence, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
2014
Cartomancy: Recent Drawings by Shay Bredimus, Koplin Del Rio, Culver City, CA
Kulture Klash, Ink N Iron Festival, the Queen Mary, Long Beach, CA
reconFIGURED, The Egan Gallery, Fullerton, CA
Artopia by OC Weekly, Muzeo, Anaheim, CA
Mirror | Mirror, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
2013
Wunderkammer, Koplin Del Rio, Culver City, CA
Wonderworks, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Art Auction XV: Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
I Don’t Want to Go to Prison: A Group Exhibition, Artist CO-OP, Long Beach, CA
2012
Sublime: Nature, Science and the Divine in Contemporary Art, Koplin Del Rio, Culver City, CA
Between Truth and Fiction: Pictorial Narratives, Koplin Del Rio, Culver City, CA
Self Possessed: Examining Identity in the 21st Century, Koplin Del Rio, Culver City, CA
L.A. Skin & INK: Tattooing in Los Angeles, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Art Driven, Sullen Art Collective, Los Alamitos, CA
Kotomi: Female Personifications of the Sister Cities of Los Angeles, Solo Exhibition, Koplin Del Rio, Culver City, CA
2011
Indelible, Central California Museum of Arts, Fresno, CA
Statements in Black and White, S Cube Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Small Works Show, Prographica, Seattle, WA
Face-to-Face, William D. Cannon Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
2010
Indelible Marks, solo exhibition, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Culver City, CA
2009
West Coast Drawing, Curated by Norman Lundin, Davidson Gallery, Seattle, WA
2008
Shay Bredimus: The Rhetorical Body, San Luis Obispo Art Center, CA
LA Art Fair, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA
Not Without Form: Recent Drawings and Works on Paper, Donna Beach Fine Art Gallery, UNLV, Las Vegas, NV
Contemporary Realist Painting and Drawing, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Culver City, CA
LCAD MFA Group Show, Curated by Peter Frank, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
MFA Solo Exhibition, 1-5 Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2004
BFA solo exhibition, KD6 Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Awards
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Acknowledgement from the City of Los Angeles for Kotomi: Female Personifications of the Sister Cities of Los Angeles.