Joshua Liner Gallery

Born 1970, Cortland, NY

Currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

EDUCATION

1999 BFA from Ringling School of Art & Design in Sarasota, FL

1997 AAS from Cazenovia College in Cazenovia, NY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012

“Memoir: The Tattooed Portraits Series” at Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY (Jun. – July)

2011

“Youth of Today” at FFDG, San Francisco, CA (July)

2010

"Tattooed Portraits: Chronicle" at Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY (April)

2009

“Tattoo Portraits” at The Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA (Summer)

2008

Solo Show at Billy Shire Fine Arts, Culver City, CA (July)

2007

“Tattooed Portraits 2” at The Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA (May)

“Somber Beginnings” at Lineage Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (March-April)

2006

“Tattooed Portraits” at The Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA (May-June)

2005

“Recent Works” at Cowboys and Angels Gallery, San Francisco, CA (June)

2004

“presently, hopeless…” at C-Pop Gallery, Detroit, MI

2002

“Recent Works” at Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011

“Summer Group Exhibition” at Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY (Aug.)

2010

“Survey Select” Mark Murphy curated Show, San Diego, CA

“Summer Group Exhibition” at Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY (Aug.)

2009

“Draw” at Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA (April)

“The Art of Rebellion” at Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (Feb. 7)

Two-person show with Turf One at Yves La Roche Gallery, Montreal, Canada (Sept.)

“Beneath the Skin” at Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Mesa, AZ

2008

“The Unsaid” Two person Show with Vincent Castiglia at Last Rites Gallery, New York, NY (Dec.)

“Luchador Collab-O-Mask” at On Six Gallery, San Francisco (Mar.)

“Visionaries” at Canvas Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

“Locked & Loaded” at Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY

“Transgression” at Last Rites Gallery, New York, NY

“Committed to Ink” at Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA

2007

Three-person show with Ron English and Joshua Petker at the Red Dot Fair, (a concurrent fair to Art Basel Miami Beach), with The Shooting Gallery (of San Francisco, CA), Miami, FL (Dec.)

“F.A.M.E. Collective at Art Basel, Miami, FL, curated by Joshua Liner Gallery (Dec.)

“Visionaries” at Canvas Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (Nov.-Dec.)

“Skin Vandals” at Gallery A.D., San Jose, CA (Oct.)

2006

“We’ll Make A Lover Out of You” at the South Florida Art Center for Art Basel, Miami, FL (Dec.)

“Arcanum” at Strychnin Gallery NYC, New York, NY (Oct.)

“Fecal Face Show” at 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA (Aug.)

“Typewriters” at Redletter1, Tampa, FL (June)

“The Erotic Show” at The Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA (June)

“The Portrait Show” at The Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA (Feb.)

“And Then There’s California,” a three-person show with Eric Joyner and Tim McCormick, at Lineage Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (Jan.)

2005

“All Star Hustlaz” at White Walls, San Francisco, CA (Nov.-Dec.)

“Power Vs. Force,” a two-person show with Eric Joyner, at Outer Edge Studio, Monterey, CA (Nov.)

“The Munny Show,” a Kid Robot Charity Party at 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA (Nov.)

“The Art Print Show” at The Canvas Gallery, San Francisco, CA

“Wet Paint” at The Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA (Aug.)

“In the Flesh,” a three-person show with Bryan Bancroft and Greg Mocilnikar, at Digital Three Gallery, Sarasota, FL

“Group Show” at Strychnin Gallery NYC/Berlin, Berlin, Germany (July-Aug.)

“The Day in the Life of a Painting 2,” a one day 12 hour show, at The Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA (Aug.)

“The Erotic Show” at The Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA (June)

“Monsters of LowBrow” at Pop Art Studios, Miami, FL

“I am 8 Bit” at Gallery 1988, Hollywood, CA (April)

“Beautiful People” at Miami Art Lab, Coral Gables, FL (April)

“Cine Delirio” at The Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA (Feb.-March)

2004

“The Erotic Gun Show” at Pawn Broker’s Gallery, San Francisco, CA

“The Art of Dialogue” at Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

“A Man For All Seasons” at Green Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

“RSVP Portraits Show” by Society of Illustrators, New York, NY (May)

2003

“Subconscious Show” at 1300 Gallery, Cleveland, OH (Oct.)

“Faculty Exhibition” at Selby Gallery at Ringling School of Art & Design,Sarasota, FL

“50/50 Show” at 1300 Gallery, Cleveland, OH

2002

“The Toy Show” at 1300 Gallery, Cleveland, OH

“The Sofa Show” at 11300 Gallery, Cleveland, OH

“Faculty Exhibition” at Selby Gallery at Ringling School of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Von D, Kat. “You Know Sometimes I Amaze Even Myself: Shawn Barber.” Juxtapoz Magazine 91, August, 2008

Koroneos, George. “Shawn Barber – A Portrait of a Tattooist as an Artist.” Skin and Ink Magazine August 2008

Giarla, Justin, ed. Forever and Ever: New Works by Shawn Barber. San Francisco: 9mm Books, 2008

Stephenson, Geoffrey. “The New York Experience.” Prick Magazine October, 2007

Skin Deep UK Tattoo Magazine, July 2007

“Showstoppers Shawn Barber: Somber Beginnings.” Juxtapoz Magazine 75, April 2007

International Tattoo Magazine, December 2006

"Shawn Barber." Garage Magazine 11, December 2006

Prick Magazine, August 2006

Stephenson, Geoffrey. “Tattooed Portraits: New Paintings by Shawn Barber.” Prick Magazine May, 2006

Tattooed Portraits: New Paintings by Shawn Barber, San Francisco: 9mm Books, 2006

Walton, Roger. The Big Book of Illustration Ideas. Harper Collins 2006

Weidemann, Julius, ed. Illustration Now. Taschen Books 2005

100 Best Web Portfolios, published by Taschen Books, released in August of 2005

Juxtapoz Magazine, April 2005

Slaton, Joyce. “This Week’s Day-by-Day Picks.” SF Weekly, February 16, 2005

Barber, Shawn. “Gallery: Illustrations, Shawn Barber.” Cool'eh Magazine 001, February 2005

Murphy, Mark. Dialogue: The Fine Art of Conversation. Minneapolis: Murphy Design Inc. 2004

The Artist's Magazine, September 2003

Juxtapoz Magazine, May/June 2003

“Illustration Annual 2001.” Step-by-Step Graphics Magazine, May/June 2001

LECTURES

2007

Lecturer & Painting Demo for the Conceptart.org Workshop in Seattle, WA

2006

Lecturer & Painting Demo for the Conceptart.org Workshop in San Francisco, CA

Guest Speaker/Presentation at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA

Lecturer & Painting Demo for the Conceptart.org Workshop in Montreal, Canada

2005

Lecturer & Painting Demo for the Conceptart.org Workshop in Prague, Czech Republic

Lecturer & Painting Demo for the Conceptart.org Workshop in San Francisco, CA

2004

Guest Critic & Painting Demo for the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI

2002

Panelist & Painting Demo at RIT in Rochester, NY
Lecturer & Painting Demo at Cazenovia College in Cazenovia, NY

TEACHING

Fall 2005- Fall 2007 as a Part Time Instructor at California College of Art in San Francisco, CA
* Courses taught: Illustration 3

Spring 2005- Spring 2006 as a Part Time Instructor at The Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA
* Courses taught: Narrative Illustration, Group Directed Work Study, and Graduate Program

Spring 2003- Spring 2004 as a Full Time Instructor/Visiting Artist at Ringling School of Art & Design in Sarasota, FL
* Courses taught: Illustration I, Painting 1 & 2, and Portraiture Elective

Spring 2000- Fall 2003 as an Adjunct Professor at Ringling School of Art & Design in Sarasota, FL
* Courses taught: Illustration I, II & III, Advanced Illustration, Visual Commentary, and Drawing 1

Summer 2000/01/02/03/04/05 as Program Coordinator for the Precollege Program at Ringling School of Art & Design
* Program Coordinator, Painting Instructor

PARTIAL CLIENT LIST

American Airlines

Atlantic Records

Baltimore Jewish Times

Boys Life

Chicago Herald Tribune

Converse

Dallas Observer

Elektra Records

Gatorade

Golf Digest

GQ

Hoffman Bikes

L.A. Weekly

Maxim

MTV Networks

Out Magazine

Psychology Today

Rock Star Games

Rolling Stone Magazine

Saks Fifth Avenue

Sarasota Film Festival

Scholastic Books

Sports Illustrated

Subway

T.E.D. Conference

Target

The Alternative Press

The American Prospect

The Grammy Awards

The Progressive

The New Republic

The New Yorker

The Recording Academy

The Source

The Village Voice

The Washington Post

TV Guide

UCLA

Utne Reader

Vancouver Magazine

Woodward East

Woodward West

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