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CV

Born: Omaha, Nebraska, 1979

Lives: Long Beach, CA

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

Acknowledgement from the City of Los Angeles for Kotomi: Female Personifications of the Sister Cities of Los Angeles.

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