SHAN Wallace

BIOGRAPHY

SHAN Wallace (b. 1991) is a nomadic award-winning interdisciplinary artist, archivist, and image-maker, from Baltimore, MD. Wallace utilizes a range of mediums to weave narratives and imagine new stories. Rooted in image-making techniques such as photography, film, and collage, as well as in situ installations, these mediums serve as the foundation of her artistic practice.

She has exhibited work internationally in galleries and museums, including The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles, CA, Elsewhere Museum in Greensboro, NC, The New Gallery of Modern Art in Charlotte, NC, Maryland’s Reginald F. Lewis Museum, The Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, Gavlak Gallery Los Angeles, The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C., August Wilson Center in Pittsburgh, Mehari Sequar Gallery in Washington D.C., The Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts in New York, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Flxst Contemporary in Chicago, IL, Prince George’s African American Museum, The Peale Center in Baltimore, MD, and NXTHVN in New Haven, CT,.

Her work is held in both public and private collections across the U.S., including The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Mint Museum, The Whitney Museum, and Johns Hopkins University, as well as various private collections.

SHAN lives and works in many spaces between Brooklyn, New York and Baltimore, MD.

Select publications and clients: The New York Times, Apple, Google, Essence, Vanity Fair, Calvin Klein, Vogue, Hypebeast, The Washington Post, Charlotte Observer, Trace Media, The Cut True Laurels, Baltimore Magazine, Huck Magazine, the Baltimore Beat, Vogue Italia, The Baltimore Banner, MotherJones, ItsNiceThat, V Magazine, Paper Magazine, Photograph Mag, CNN, The Architect’s Newspaper, The Charlotte Post, and Dazed Magazine.