ADAM BENET SHAW 2547 Broad Avenue Memphis, Tennessee 38112 (901) 458-7038 (901) 828-3389 ABShaw.com dunkmunkee.deviantart.com PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2009 Portrait for Film Production, Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, Constellation Entertainment Illustrations for Graphic Novel- David, Michael Thompson, employer Reality Blurs Illustrations for Iron Dynasty, a role playing game Publishing of Harpe, a graphic novel 2008 MAW Productions- Jetta/Shi-Arrow of Destiny, backcover illustration 2007 Paramount Pictures Storyboard Artist Warbride, Director, Craig Brewer Kings of the Delta CD cover design and launch party advertising Private Portraits Set design for independent movie production Set design-scott Blake Design company 2006 Paramount Pictures Storyboard Artist Black Snake Moan, Director, Craig Brewer 2005 Reality Blurs Illustrations for Rune Punk, a role playing game Reality Blurs Illustrations for The Red Temple, a role playing game Reality Blurs Illustrations for Star Fall Jungle, a role playing game Chad Kinkle Productions Movie Poster The Wilders Chad Kinkle Productions Illustrations for graphic novel Augur of Ill 2004-2005 Image Comics Artist for Bloodstream, a graphic novel in four (4) parts 2004 Full Dark Artist for online comic in two (2) parts 2000-2004 Dead in Memphis Artist and Publisher for comic in four (4) volumes 2002 Drawing Instructor, Memphis Hebrew Academy Illustrator for magazines includes placements in June 2001 cover; July 2001 cover; March 2002 Web-Hosting magazine 2001-2002 Part-time Painting Faculty, Memphis College of Art Advance Placement Drawing Instructor, Memphis College of Art
2001 Guest Artist, Slave Labor Graphics publication, The Waiting Place, Nos. 8, 10, 11, 12 1996-2002 Freelance Illustration, West Rogers Advertising, Memphis, Tennessee 1996-2008 Private Portrait Commissions EXHIBITIONS 2009 A Class of Hicks, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, Tennessee 2008 Delta Exhibition 50 th Annual, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas 2007 Drawings, Drawings, Drawings, Hawthorn Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama Red Clay Survey, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama 2006 138 foot Mural History of Cotton International Cotton Museum Opening Spring 2006, Memphis, Tennessee Opening Show, Dean Drew Galley, Brevard, North Carolina Erotica, David Mah Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee Best in Show, Consequential-The Luck of the Draw, Memphis, Tennessee 2005 Holiday Show, David Mah Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee Holiday Show, Hawthorn Gallery, Mountain Brook, Alabama St. Jude s Children s Research Hospital, Pavilion Permanent Exhibition Portraits of founders and St. Jude Mid-South Cartoonist Association The Process Revealed Red Clay Survey, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama Something of Our Common Feeling, Delta Axis at Marshall Arts, Memphis, Tennessee 2004 One Man Show, David Mah Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee PowerHouse Inaugural Art Opening, Memphis, Tennessee Classical Mythology, One Man Show, Hawthorn Gallery, Mountain Brook, Alabama Forrest Scott Gallery, MetLife Building Lobby, New York, New York American Realism, Group Show, Plus One Gallery, London, England Light and Water, One Man Show, Family Tree Gallery, Portsmouth, New Hampshire 2003 Holiday Show, Hawthorn Gallery, Mountain Brook, Alabama Flesh Tones and Water Ripples, One Man Show, Alpha Art Gallery, Little Rock, Arkansas Up with Art II, Alpha Art Gallery, Little Rock, Arkansas 2002 Up with Art, Alpha Art Gallery, Little Rock, Arkansas One Man Exhibition, Hawthorn Gallery, Mountain Brook, Alabama Red Clay Survey, Huntsville Museum of Art, Alabama Divan Studios, La Jolla, California Men, The Male Nude in Contemporary Art, Hawthorn Gallery, Alabama
It s a Human World, Delta Axis at Marshall Arts, Memphis, Tennessee 2001 Studies in Light and Water, One Man Exhibition, Jay Etkin Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee New American Painting, Exhibition in Print, Number 34 2000 43 rd Annual Delta Art Exhibition, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas Opening Exhibition, Jay Etkin Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee Group Show, Vertigo Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee 1999 Arts in the Park, Memphis, Tennessee 25 th Prints, Drawings, and Photography Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center 1998 Remote View Gallery 111, Memphis, Tennessee 1997 The Human Figure II, Bockrath Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio 1996 The Human Figure, Bockrath Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio 1995 Black and White Center for the Arts, Willoughby, Ohio EDUCATION 1995 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, Cleveland Institute of Art 1993 Edinburgh College of Art, Semester Exchange PRIZES AND AWARDS 2005 Mid-South Science Fiction Writers Award 2003 Selected Most Promising Young American Artist by a group of European gallery owners 1995 1 st Agnes Gund Memorial Scholarship: $4,500 for travel 1991 Presidents merit Scholarship: $45,000 Cleveland Institute of Art COLLECTIONS Alabama Power & Light, Inc. Private Collections in Los Angeles, California; Palm Springs, California; Portland, Oregon; Boston, Massachusetts; New York, New York; London Humphreys Dunlap & Welford Law Firm FedEx Corporation COMMUNITY SERVICE Treasurer, Historic Binghamton Neighborhood Association Member, Mid-South Cartoonists Member and Volunteer, Memphis Track and Runners Club
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