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Shawn Barber’s body of work focuses primarily on painting and illustration. He received his BFA in 1999 from the Ringling School of Art & Design, in Sarasota, FL. His paintings and illustrations have been exhibited in diverse solo and group venues including: The Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA; CPop Gallery, Detroit, MI; Cowboys and Angels Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY; Strychnin Gallery, Berlin, Germany; Gallery 1988, Hollywood, CA; Miami Art Lab, Coral Gables, Fl; The Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; The Green Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; The Society of Illustrators, NY, NY; The Selby Gallery, Ringling, Sarasota, FL ; The 1300 Gallery, Cleveland, OH. Shawn's work is in collections worldwide, including those of Mat Hoffman, Van Morrison, Christian Slater and Rolling Stone magazine's founder Jan Wenner.

Articles and reviews of his work have appeared in ArtNews, Juxtapoz Magazine, the Artist's Magazine, Cool'eh magazine and SF Weekly. His work has been awarded by American Illustration, The Society of Illustrators, Communication Arts, RSVP, and The Artist's Magazine. His work has been featured in Taschen Books' Illustration Now (2005) and 1000 Best Web Portfolios (2005), Harper Collins' The Big Book of Illustration Ideas (2004), and Mark Murphy's Dialogue Book (2004).

Commercial clients include Atlantic Records, The New Yorker, The Grammy Awards, Rolling Stone, Converse, Scholastic Books, GQ, MTV Networks, The Source, Maxim, Elektra Records, XXL, UCLA, Woodward West / Woodward East, Target, Hoffman Bikes, T.E.D. Conference, Utne Reader, The Progressive, Boys Life, Rock Star Games, Baltimore Jewish Times, Saks Fifth Ave, The Washington Post, The Recording Academy, American Airlines, The American Prospect, Chicago Herald Tribune, Golf Digest, The Alternative Press, TV Guide, L.A. Weekly, Psychology Today, Vancouver magazine, The New Republic, The Village Voice, Electronic Gaming Monthly, Sarasota Film Festival, Complex Media, Legal Affairs magazine, Out magazine

Barber has lectured and given painting demo's at several American Universities and Art Institutions. He was the 2003-2004 Illustration Department's Visiting Professor at the Ringling School of Art & Design in Sarasota, FL. Currently a Professor of Illustration at both the California College of Arts & the Academy of Art University in San Francisco; he has also coordinated and taught painting and illustration for Ringling's Precollege Summer Program the past 6 years, and previously taught for Ringling's Illustration department from 2000-2004.