Resume
Shaun Kardinal (American, b. 1982)
Based in Seattle, WA
Exhibitions
Jul 2013 – Inertia @ LxWxH, Seattle WA
Oct 2012 – Reiterations @ Cairo, Seattle, WA
Apr 2012 – Connotations @ Joe Bar, Seattle WA
Sep 2011 – Further Alterations @ Snowden Flood, London UK
July 2011 – Heptaparaparshinokh @ VioletStrays.com
Jan 2009 – Progression @ SOIL, Seattle WA
Oct 2008 – Carrillo & Kardinal @ Some Space, Seattle WA
May 2008 – Go On, I’m Listening @ Joe Bar, Seattle WA
Oct 2007 – Directors’ Cut @ Some Space, Seattle WA
Jun/Jul 2007 – Buildings @ Clarabella, New York NY
Oct 2006 – Buildings, 2006 @ Some Space, Seattle WA
Group Exhibitions
Jul 2013 – Stitchery @ SAM Gallery, Seattle WA
May 2013 – New Members’ Show @ SOIL, Seattle WA
Feb/Mar 2013 – Chamber Music @ Frye Art Museum, Seattle WA
Dec 2012 – TWO @ Joe Bar, Seattle WA
Oct 2012 through Jun 2013 - Small Voids travelling exhibition, Seattle WA, Portland OR, Oakland CA
Jul 21st 2012 – Sun Worshipers @ Egan House, Seattle WA
Jun 2012 – Erotic, in collaboration with Erin Frost @ Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
Jan 29th 2012 – Visual Art Happy Hour at ONN/OF, Seattle WA
Nov 2011 – The Sweet Life (Act Like You’re Interested), with Troy Gua @ Nepo House, Seattle WA
Aug 13th 2011 – Show and Tell @ Vignettes Mobile Gallery, Brooklyn NY
Jul 14th 2011 – Seattle Weekly’s Artopia
Jul 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
Apr 2010 – Meet Greet Rinse Repeat, curated by and in collaboration with Troy Gua @ Monarch Contemporary, Seattle WA
Feb 2010 – Bad Words, curated by Chris Crites @ Twilight Artist Collective, Seattle WA
Jun 2009 – Photo Show @ Vermillion, Seattle WA
Apr/May 2009 – Human Canvas, juried by Suzette Troche-Stapp @ The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins CO
Apr 2009 – The Coast with the Most @ goforaloop gallery, San Francisco CA
Feb/Mar 2009 – Dearly Madly, curated by Robert Yoder @ Howard House, Seattle WA
Nov 2008 – Beautifully Worn, curated by No Good For Me @ Clarabella, New York NY
Oct 2008 – SOIL Art Gallery Art Auction @ Lawrimore Project, Seattle WA
Oct 2008 – Rivet’s Last Dance Art Auction @ Grey Gallery, Seattle WA
Aug 2008 – Photographers’ Showcase @ Some Space, Seattle WA
Jun 2008 – My Space, juried by Suvan Geer @ SCA Project Gallery, Pomona CA
Feb 2008 – Artist Trust Benefit Auction, Seattle WA
Jan 2008 – Autobiography @ SAM Gallery, Seattle WA
Awards
2010 4Culture Individual Artist Projects Grant
Commissions & Reproductions
2013 – Vaudeville Etiquette’s Debutantes EP (cover art)
2013 – Soft Metals’ Lenses LP, Tell Me single (cover art series, music video)
Professional Activities
2006 – Present: Designer & Web Developer, Unkardinal.com
Sep 2012 – Present: Member, SOIL Gallery, Seattle
Sep 2007 – Dec 2010: Designer & Web Developer, Davidson Galleries, Seattle
Sep 2008 – Dec 2009: Organizational Member, Crawl Space Gallery, Seattle
Jun 2006 – Dec 2008: Co-Founder & -Director, Some Space, Seattle
Bibliography
Olivia Zeitline, “Shaun Kardinal – La broderie dans l’art revient en force” Réécrire Magazine, March 2013
Jonathan Zwickel, “The Act of Love: Shaun Kardinal & Erin Frost” City Arts Magazine, February 2012
Ranessa Allen, “Shaun Kardinal: Unstrung” FIXE Mag, July 2012
Mala Bajaj, “A Stich in Time” Home Review Magazine, July 2012
Vivian Hua, “Entangled in Embroidery: Shaun Kardinal & Erin Frost Joint Interview” Redefine Mag, June 2, 2012
Sierra Stinson, Sun Worshipers, June 2012
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