About
Education
Cranbrook Academy of Art, MFA, Painting and Drawing, May 2000
The Kansas City Art Institute, BFA, Painting and Drawing, May 1998
Bennington College, Fine Art, Fall 1992 - Spring 1994
Artist residency programs and Fellowships
The Maple Terrace Residency Program, October 2018
Two Coats of Paint Resident Artist, October 2017
Two Coats of Paint Resident Artist, February 2016
Yaddo, August 2015
The MacDowell Colony, June/July 2015
The Vermont Studio Center, January 2014
Selected Solo, Two-Person, and Three-Person Exhibitions
2023
Lashing Out, work by Gyan Shrosbree and Jen King, LaiSun Keane, Boston, MA June - July (forthcoming)
THE DRESS/WHAT TOUCHES THE FLOOR, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY January - February (solo)
2022
Gyan Shrosbree: What She Said. JEFF, Marfa, TX July-September (solo)
Let Me Hear Your Body Talk, work by Gyan Shrosbree and Joey Fauerso, WRONG Gallery/Do Right Hall (two locations), Marfa, TX February - May
Gyan Shrosbree, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA March-June (solo)
2021
Year of the Bath, NX.IX Gallery, Detroit, MI/Hudson, MA February -March (solo)
2020
My Grandmother’s Closet, Ola Studio, Pound Ridge, NY Sept-October (solo)
2019
Sense of Place, Work by Gyan Shrosbree and Jim Shrosbree, NX.IX Gallery, Detroit, MI September - October (two person)
Gyan Shrosbree: Closet Systems, presented by the Iowa Arts Council and State Historical Museum, Des Moines, IA May - July (solo)
2017
Built-In Closet, Ripon College, Ripon, WI November - December (solo)
Tarp Studies by Gyan Shrosbree, Haus Collective, San Antonio, TX September - October (solo)
Reliquary, Work by Gyan Shrosbree and Brian Paul, Grapefruits, Portland, OR May - June (two person)
Finding Distance: Work by Gyan Shrosbree and Jim Shrosbree, Yellow Door Gallery, Des Moines, IA May - June (two person)
2016
The Glamour is Gone, Lovey Town Space, Madison, WI, October - December, (solo)
Walk-In Closet, Grand View University, Des Moines, IA (September) (solo)
2015
Arranged Marriage, Gyan Shrosbree And Surya Gied, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA September/October
The Ladies Association, Gyan Shrosbree/Joey Fauerso, ICON Gallery, Fairfield, IA March - May
2013
What Resonates, 1522 St. Louis, Kansas City, MO September - December
I Love You Because Your Pants Are Too Short, Paintings By Gyan Shrosbree, Curated by Mary Laube, The Times Club, Iowa City, IA March (solo)
2012
Gyan Shrosbree and James Shrosbree: New Paintings, Unity Gallery, Maharishi University, November –February
Put yourself in Her Shoes, The Beauty Shop, Fairfield, IA, October - November (solo)
2011
Gyan Shrosbree: Recent Work, Stacey Hill Space, San Antonio, TX April (solo)
Gyan Shrosbree and Joey Fauerso: Recent Work, Unity Gallery, Maharishi University, February – April
2010
The Suspects, FLIGHT Gallery, San Antonio, TX July – August (solo)
This is All Real, show collaborating with Joey Fauerso and Leslie Frasier, Unit B Gallery, San Antonio, TX May - July
Power to Stop Time, Public Art Piece Installed in Irving Middle School, Done with Artpace San Antonio, San Antonio, TX June (solo)
2009
Homecoming, Tim The Girl, San Antonio, TX Oct (solo)
2008
Gyan Shrosbree Paintings, Haus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA December (solo)
Hey What’s on Your Mind?, Fake Space, Los Angeles CA September
2007
Shrosbree/Muraczewski, The Santa Fe Art Colony, Los Angeles, CA May
2006
9 Steps Closer To a New You, Unity Gallery, M.U.M., Fairfield, IA. January (solo)
9 Steps Closer To A New You, Shareen Downtown, Los Angeles, CA, June - July (solo)
2005
I Loved My Bat, The Bower, San Antonio, TX, February
2004
Shrosbree, Gallery 51, Fairfield, IA, April
2003
I am not Afraid Anymore, Berel Space, Brooklyn, NY, May (solo)
2002
Stray Show, The Bower, Chicago, IL (featured artist/solo)
Fashion Place, The Bower, San Antonio, TX, April (solo)
2000
Introductions, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI, May - June
Fashion Show by Gyan, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI, May (solo)
Dress Rehearsal by Gyan, Fashion Show, Cranbrook Academy of Art Student Degree Show Opening,Bloomfield Hills, MI, April 15th
The Life of A Princess, Performance, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, March (solo)
Air Quotes, Forum Gallery, Gyan Shrosbree and Jessica Dickinson Bloomfield Hills, MI, March
1999
Disposables by Gyan, Fashion Show, Bloomfield Hills, MI, November (solo)
Permission Fashions by Gyan, Collaborative Space/Store with Tao Urban, Bloomfield Hills, MI April
Permission Fashions Live, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, April (solo)
Cus' We Wanna, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI, March
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
Library, curated by Glenn Goldberg, Tappeto Volante, Brooklyn, NY May/June (forthcoming)
Message From a Friend, curated by Yevgeniya Baras, The Studio Archive Project, online exhibition March/April
Current Faculty, Wege Art Center, Maharishi International University, Fairfield, IA January/February
2022
Vibrant Expressions, curated by Lilah Anderson, Anderson Gallery at Drake University, Des Moines, IA September-October
2021
I Don’t Want To Be Lonely, Fluffy Crimes, Chicago, IL May/June
Glamorous Decay, Curina, virtual exhibition, April/May
Flat File Exhibition, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY January
2020
Inaugural Group Exhibition, M Street Gallery, Jersey City, NJ November - February (2021)
Unruly Hair, Unruly Bodies, Curina, virtual exhibition, October
Art of Our Time, Mainframe Studio/Olson Larsen Gallery, Des Moines, IA August - September
2019
Got it For Cheap, The Hole, New York, NY March
2018
Faculty Show, Unity Gallery, Maharishi University, Fairfield, IA September - October
Rhythm & Rush, Ground Floor Gallery, juried by Catherine Haggarty, Nashville, TN September - October
One: Annual Emerging Artist Exhibit 2018, Cleve Carney Art Gallery, Glen Ellyn, IL June - July
2017
If Not For Space, Curated by Yellow Door Gallery, Unity Gallery, Fairfield, IA November - December
A Sag, Harbored, Western Exhibitions, Curated by Scott Speh, Chicago, IL July - August
A Tiny Rivulet in the Distant Forest, ArtStart, Curated by Michael Velliquette, Rhinelander, WI, May - August
2016 Two Coats of Paint Resident Artist Group Show, NYSRP, Curated by Sharon Butler, Brooklyn, NY, February - March
2016
Deal With It, Maake Magazine Group Exhibition, The Woskob Family Gallery, State College, PA, August - October
Deutschland, Lovey Town Space, Madison, WI/Berlin,GE March - April
Faculty Show, Unity Gallery, Maharishi University, Fairfield, IA February - March
2014
Orphans in The Storm, Lovey Town Space, Curated by Michael Velliquette, Madison, WI September
Whimsy, Icon Gallery, Curated by Ken Dubin, Fairfield. IA May - July
2013
Slipping Glimpse, Curated by Surya Gied, Unity Gallery, Maharishi University, Fairfield, IA November - December
The Joy of The Task Was Its Own Reward, Lovey Town Space, Curated by Michael Velliquette, Madison, WI September - October
2012
A.I.R. Gallery 10th Biennial, Brooklyn, Curated by ingrid Schaffner, NY, December
Parallax Art Fair, New York, NY November
2011
Faculty Show, Unity Gallery, Maharishi University, December - February
2009
Hey What’s on Your Mind?, Parts & Labor, New York, NY February
2008
Want and Need, Parts & Labor, New York, NY October
The Possibility of Love With a Stranger, Fake Space, Los Angeles CA October
Red Dot, Blue Star Contemporary. San Antonio, TX June
2005
Flat Files, Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, September
The Matzo Files, Art Auction, New York, NY May
2004
The Matzo Files, New York, NY, August
My Pants As Your Shirt, New York, NY, July
Cut, Performance, Brooklyn NY, March
2003
8 x 10”, Arthouse, traveling exhibition
2001
9/11, Benefit Auction, Long Island City, NY, November
2000
Cranbrook Academy of Art Graduate Summer Exhibition, Curated by Buzz Spector, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, June - August
Cranbrook Academy of Art Student Degree Show, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, April - May
Scholarships And grants
Robert H. Daisley Memorial Scholarship, Cranbrook Academy of Art 1999-2000
Trustee Merit Scholarship, The Kansas City Art Institute 1995-1998
Public Art
‘The Power to Stop Time’, Artpace San Antonio, Public Art Piece Installed in Irving Middle School, San Antonio, TX 2011, permanent installation.
Publications and Press
Two Coats of Paint, Gyan Shrosbree: Fluorescent beauty and the feminine gaze by Rob Samartino 2023
Yale University Radio WYBC, Interview with Brainard Carey 2023
Hyperallergic, Figuartion and Fragmentation in Marfa, Joey Fauerso and Gyan Shrosbree get it right at Wrong by Lauren Klotzman 2022
Year of the Bath Book produced by NX.IX Gallery 2022
New American Paintings No. 155 Midwest Issue 2021
Egomania Magazine, May, 2021
The Coastal Post, February 2019
Inertia Studio Visits, October 2018
Precog, Featured Artist, October 2018
The Glamour is Gone, Lovey Town Space, Solo Show, Catalogue, essay by Gaby Collins-Fernadez, Interview with Michael Velliquette, published December 2016
Precog, Featured Artist, published August 2016
Maake Magazine featured artist, published August 2015
Maake Magazine, interview and online feature of work, May 2015
Painter’s Bread, interview and studio visit, January, 2015
"I Love You Because Your Pants Are Too Short", essay by Brooke Chroman, catalog published by Prairie Lights Books
"The Suspects", A book of 21 paintings by Gyan Shrosbree, Published By DEVIBOOK, 2010
Teaching
Maharishi University, Associate Professor Studio Art, Fairfield. IA 2019-present
Maharishi University, Assistant Professor Studio Art, Fairfield, IA 2011-2019
St Philips College, Adjunct Faculty, Art Department, San Antonio, TX 2009 – 2011