Resume
Shaun Kardinal (American, b. 1982)
Based in Seattle, WA
Exhibitions
April 12 – May 8, 2012 – Connotations @ Joe Bar, Seattle WA
September 17-25, 2011 – Further Alterations @ Snowden Flood, London UK
July 22-28, 2011 – Heptaparaparshinokh @ VioletStrays.com
January 2009 – Progression @ SOIL, Seattle WA
October 2008 – Carrillo & Kardinal @ Some Space, Seattle WA
May 2008 – Go On, I’m Listening @ Joe Bar, Seattle WA
October 2007 – Directors’ Cut @ Some Space, Seattle WA
June/July 2007 – Buildings @ Clarabella, New York NY
October 2006 – Buildings, 2006 @ Some Space, Seattle WA
Group Exhibitions
January 29th 2012 – Visual Art Happy Hour at ONN/OF, Seattle WA
November 2011 – The Sweet Life (Act Like You’re Interested), with Troy Gua @ Nepo House, Seattle WA
August 13th 2011 – Show and Tell @ Vignettes Mobile Gallery, Brooklyn NY
July 14th 2011 – Seattle Weekly’s Artopia
July 5th 2011 – Alterations, in collaboration with Erin Frost @ Vignettes, Seattle WA
Apr-May 2011 – Being There, curated by Sierra Stinson @ Cornish College of the Arts Alumni Gallery, Seattle WA
Apr 2011 - A Good Line: Artists on Poems, curated by Jennifer Borges Foster @ Hugo House, Seattle WA
Feb 2011 – Bloom & Collapse with Troy Gua@ SOIL, Seattle WA
Dec 2010 – Vs. The Matador @ SOIL, Seattle WA
Oct-Nov 2010 – One Night Stand @ Joe Bar, Seattle WA
May 2010 – Seattle Erotic Art Festival @ Seattle Center Exhibition Hall, Seattle WA
April 2010 – Meet Greet Rinse Repeat, curated by and in collaboration with Troy Gua @ Monarch Contemporary, Seattle WA
February 2010 – Bad Words, curated by Chris Crites @ Twilight Artist Collective, Seattle WA
June 2009 – Photo Show @ Vermillion, Seattle WA
April/May 2009 – Human Canvas, juried by Suzette Troche-Stapp @ The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins CO
April 2009 – The Coast with the Most @ goforaloop gallery, San Francisco CA
February/March 2009 – Dearly Madly, curated by Robert Yoder @ Howard House, Seattle WA
November 2008 – Beautifully Worn, curated by No Good For Me @ Clarabella, New York NY
October 2008 – SOIL Art Gallery Art Auction @ Lawrimore Project, Seattle WA
October 2008 – Rivet’s Last Dance Art Auction @ Grey Gallery, Seattle WA
August 2008 – Photographers’ Showcase @ Some Space, Seattle WA
June 2008 – My Space, juried by Suvan Geer @ SCA Project Gallery, Pomona CA
February 2008 – Artist Trust Benefit Auction, Seattle WA
January 2008 – Autobiography @ SAM Gallery, Seattle WA
Awards
2010 4Culture Individual Artist Projects Grant
Professional Activities
2006 – Present: Designer & Web Developer at Unkardinal
September 2007 – December 2010: Designer & Web Developer at Davidson Galleries
September 2008 – December 2009: Organizational Member of Crawl Space Gallery
June 2006 – December 2008: Co-Founder & Director of Some Space
Bibliography
Vivian Hua, “Embroidered Works: Shaun Kardinal, Erin Frost, Stacey Page…” Redefine Mag, May 9, 2012
Commissioned piece for Yen Mag’s Travel Issue, April 25, 2012
Lesley Frenz “The Uncommon Familiar: Shaun Kardinal” Artsy Forager, April 23, 2012
Sharon Arnold “Connotations at Joe Bar” Dimensions Variable, April 11, 2012
City Arts (featured work), April 2012
Modern Ink Magazine (featured work), April/May 2012
“Shaun Kardinal – Creations/Alterations” Kinki Magazine, March 30, 2012
Seo, Jae Woo “Another Beautiful Scene” J.J. Magazine no 80, March 2012
“über embroiderers: Shaun Kardinal” The Smallest Forest, February 7, 2012
“Battling the Pacific Northwest SADS with ONN/OF” Redefine Mag, January 27, 2012
Margherita Dessanay, ”Art & Craft: An Embroidered Web” Elephant Magazine, Winter 2011/12
Charlotte Rivers, “A Stitch in Time: The Art of Found Imagery and Embroidery” Blanket Magazine, September 2011
“The Cutting (and Stitching) Edge” Mr. X Stitch, September 1, 2011
Kyle Johnson, “Portraits of Seattle #10″ January 2, 2011
Joey Veltkamp, “Embroidered Lithographs by Shaun Kardinal” Best Of, November 26, 2010
Emily Pothast, “Gifts for No One in Particular” Translinguistic Other, February 19, 2010
Lucas Deon Spivey, “Light Comes with Darkness” Meaning in Art, September 5, 2009
Sharon Arnold, “How I’ve Learned to See Myself a Little Differently” Dimensions Variable, June 25, 2009
Emily Pothast, “Inadvertent Public Art” Translinguistic Other, June 11, 2009
Regina Hackett, “Dearly, Madly – Romance as the end of the road” Arts Journal Online, March 25, 2009
Valentina Vitols, “Shaun Kardinal turns the camera toward himself…” ArtVoices, February 2009, Issue 12
Joshua Lynch, “Shaun Kardinal at Photographers’ Showcase” Seattle Weekly, August 13, 2008
Regina Hackett, “Shaun Kardinal’s Intimate Mundane” Seattle Weekly Art to Go, May 8, 2008
Interview for Globatron.org, March 3, 2008
Carrie E.A. Scott, “Masters in Miniature” Seattle Weekly, June 05, 2007
With further internet love from Booooooom, Beautiful/Decay, Design Milk, Miss Moss, Anthology, The Jealous Curator, Junk Culture