EDUCATION
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY FINE ART RESEARCH, Royal College of Art, School of Arts and Humanities, London, UK
POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN ART AND DESIGN EDUCATION, Royal College of Art, London, UK
MFA PAINTING, Boston University, College of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, Boston, MA, USA
GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN WOMEN’S, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES, Boston University, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston, MA, USA
BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago, IL, USA
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2024 — I Regret to Inform You That, The Transformation Gallery, London, UK
2021 — RCA Research Biennale 21, digital format, global
2019 — Painting from the Other Side, Dyson Gallery, London, UK
2019 — There's something lurking in the shadows that might be interesting, Dyson Gallery, London, UK
2018 — FLIGHT MODE, Royal College of Art Research Exhibition, Assembly Point, London, UK
2017 — Gathering Differences, Helga Christoffersen Curator (Assistant Curator at New Museum of Contemporary Art, Manhattan, NY)
A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY USA
Debtfair (included artist), a project of Occupy Museums, Whitney Biennial 2017, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY USA
Reparative Representations, A.I.R. Gallery, VOLTA NY, NY, NY USA (solo project exhibition)
2016 — Cooperative Consciousness, Kochi-Muziris Biennale collaterals 2016, Kochi, Kerala, India
Curated by Kathryn Myers (University of Connecticut, Storrs) A.I.R. Gallery Off-Site Project
New Art in an Old House, Nolan Park, Governors Island, New York, NY USA (A.I.R. Gallery Off-Site Project)
In the Secret Garden, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Curated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado (El Museo del Barrio)
Generations X, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY USA
2015 — Small, Smaller, Smallest, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA USA
Lifeline MFA Thesis Exhibition, 808 Gallery, Boston, MA USA
Places, Times, Colors, Solo Exhibition, Commonwealth Gallery, Boston, MA USA
2014 — MFA Candidate Exhibition, Sloane House, Boston, MA USA
Movement, TEDex Somerville, Somerville, MA USA
Engendered, Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston, MA USA
Reclamation, The BLAA Gallery, Boston, MA USA
Hot Spot, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA USA
Group Exhibition, Commonwealth Gallery, Boston, MA USA
Intuition, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA USA
2013 — 25 and Up, MassArt Student Life Gallery, Boston, MA USA
Brickbottom Open Studios Exhibition, Somerville MA USA
Summer Color, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA USA
Media Mix Up, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA USA
PUBLICATIONS
Shannon Forrester, “I Care by Repair”, I Care By…, Gemma Blackshaw, Sohaila Baluch, Marita Fraser, Nora Heidorn and Rosie Hermon (eds), (London: RCA Research Communiqués, 2022).
Shannon Forrester, “Care-full Pedagogies, the Reparative Turn in Critique” (tentative title), Prova 6, ed. Chantal Faust (London, UK: School of Arts and Humanities Research, Royal College of Art, forthcoming 2022)
Shannon Forrester, "Care-Full Mou: On the What Came after World and Surviving Carelessness," in Care(Less). A Supplement to On Care, eds. Gemma Blackshaw and Sharon Kivland (London, UK: MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE, 2021).
Shannon Forrester, "Painting from the Other Side: Tracing the Reparative Turn in Contemporary Practice," eds. Diane Conrad, Patricia L Leavy, Karin Hannes, Rudi Laermans. Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal Vol. 5 No. 1 “Encountering Artistic Research Practices: Analyzing their Critical Social Potentialities” (2020).
RESIDENCIES
2023 — FORENSIS with Eyal Weizman Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (ICSI) Summer Seminar at The New School for Social Research, Institute for Critical Social Inquiry, New York, NY, USA
2021 — True North PhD Final Year Writing Retreat for Doctoral Researchers, CHASE, Shepherds Dene, Northumberland, UK (shifted to virtual)
2020 —Tao Hua Tan 7th International Artist Retreat and Painting Residence: Tao Hua Tan, Anhui Province, China (on hold)
2018 — Methodologies and Contexts of “Recovery” Research in the C21 - CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership, hosted by University of East Anglia, funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), advanced training for doctoral researchers in all humanities disciplines whose PhD project involves an element of “recovery” research (research that seeks to bring to light, restore and/or critically recuperate works/individuals/objects that have been lost, obscured, neglected or denied). Forest Retreat, Hampshire, UK
2018 — The Object of Research: a process-led residency and enquiry into method for researchers,organized by Royal College of Art/University of the Arts London/Kingston University, hosted by University of Cumbria, Carlisle/Ambleside, Supported by Conflux funding, Techne consortium, Carlisle, UK
2016 — Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT USA
2015 — Fellowship Finalist, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA USA
2013 — Landscape Painting, with artist John Walker, Darmiscotta, ME USA
2012 — Figure Painting, with artist James Everett Stanley, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA USA
SELECT PRESENTATIONS
Panel: “Art’s Reparative Turn: Creating Agency, Hopeful Futurities, and Movement Towards an Exit, Part I & II”
Creativity in Revolt, the American Studies Association annual conference, Sna Juan, PR USA
Convener of two panel series and research presentation.
“Painting from The Other Side: Tracing the reparative turn in contemporary practice”, Visiting Artist Lecture, College of the Atlantic, October 2019, Bar Harbor, Maine USA
NWSA Annual Conference: Protest, Justice, and Transnational Organizing, November 2019, San Francisco, CA USA
Panel: “Affective Encounters, Future Imaginaries, Visions for Tomorrow in the Now”
Panel convener and research presentation.
“Reparative Painting and the Painterliness of New Materialism”, Artists and the Philosophers we Love International Symposium, June 2019, convened by the Theorising Visual Art and Design Research Group, School of Creative Arts, University of Hertfordshire and Writing Visual Culture Journal. Hertfordshire, UK
“Reparative Painting an Encounter with Hopeful Futurity”, Summer School for Sexualities, Cultures, and Politics, August 2019, Belgrade, Serbia. Organised by: Research Center for Cultures, Politics and Identities (IPAK.Center) and Department for Critical Political Studies Faculty for Media and Communications, Singidunum University, Belgrade, Serbia
Visiting Artist Lecture, The Reparative Turn in Painting and US Feminist Art Collectives, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK
“Hiraeth of Beautiful Monsters”, the Reparative Turn, Critically Queer conference, University of Bristol, organized by the Critically Queer working group at University of Bristol, supported by SPAIS Gender Research Centre of the University of Bristol and the South West Doctoral Training Partnership, ESRC. The Critically Queer conference is funded by a generous grant from the SW Doctoral Training Partnership, ESRC. Bristol, UK
“The Truth of Gabrielle d’Estrées”, poster session, Gender at a Crossroads conference, Cardiff University, sponsored by South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership, Cardiff, UK
“Sex/Gender/Sexuality”, Academic Lecture Series, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Panel: “LINKING: Foundation Year Studio-based Artistic Research in Contemporary Art and Social Justice—Creating Interdisciplinary Curriculum to Engage Students With Content Beyond Media-Based Exploration”, Session Chair. To the Core and Beyond, Foundations in Art: Theory and Education Biennial conference, Kansas City, MO USA
Panel convener.