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TTH 5:00pm - 6:00pm
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BIO
Jennifer Shada (b. 1988) is a Bay Area visual artist living in Penngrove, California. After spending the summer studying at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art in 2010, Shada received her B.F.A. at Sonoma State University in 2011. She continued her education at California College of the Arts and earned her M.F.A. in 2016. Shada has exhibited both locally and nationally including The Vast Lab in Los Angeles, the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings, Montana and in a “high altitude” exhibition in New York City, New York. Shada works as a part-time Associate faculty at Santa Rosa Junior College and at Napa Valley College, teaching a mix of painting, drawing and figure drawing. She also works with Sterling Graphics Vinyl Company in San Francisco installing vinyl graphics at the Legion of Honor, the De Young Museum, the Academy of Sciences and SFMoMA. In 2015, Shada cofounded artist collective ONE + ONE + TWO, aiming to bridge the gap between individual artists with resources in the Bay Area such as residency, critique and exhibition opportunities. She has worked as a studio assistant for artists Mario Pires Cordeiro, Nellie King Solomon as well as assisted Barbara Stauffacher Solomon in painting her “Supergraphics”. Since the pandemic, Shada has moved her studio from the American Industrial Building in San Francisco to her home in Penngrove, CA.