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SHANT BEUDJEKIAN
8510 Run of the Knolls
Santa Luz ,Ca 92127
Shant.artspan.com
shant1971@yahoo.com
619 - 992- 0500
Education
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New School for Social Research, New york, Ny
Relevant course work: Adobe Photoshop I, II, III, Adobe Illustrator, Word Perfect
New york University, New york
Relevant course work: Alias Animation I, II, III,
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence,RI
Relevant course work: Studio Design, Architecture Drawing, Drafting, Drawing, Materials and Construction
Worked under the Instruction of Kyna Leski and Leonard Newcomb
Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Recieved Bachelor of Fine Arts
Major in Painting with minor in Ceramics
Relevant coursework:Life Drawing, Color and Design, Drawing and Composition, and Painting I, II, III, IV

Experience
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San Diego Hospice and Palliative Care 1/13/2008
Selected to exhibit eight landscape paintings of Lajolla

San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild (SDMAAG) 11/2006
Chairperson of the committee

Sea World
Leather brush artist 05/2006

Carpeteria
Worked as Salesperson / warehouse coordinator for one year 09/2003


Manhattan Arts International 03/2003
Attained an Award of Merit from competition titled "The Healing Power of Art"
represented by director Rene Phillips


Brad Cooper Gallery Nov.30 - January 4, 2003
Historic Ybor City, Tampa FL 33605
In the context of this event as "Nude In the Post Modern" an oil Painting titled "Reclining pose of black American Woman", selected by Corey Postiglione, who is a Chicago based writer, artist and currently teaches art history and critical theory at Columbia College.

Degas Pastel Society Oct. 26 - Nov. 9 2002
Entergy Building Lobby, 639 Loyola Avenue, New Orleans, LA
Pastel Drawing selected by judge Sally Strand, who is listed in who's who in American Art, and has her work featured in numerous articles.

The Armory Art Center October International Competition Oct. 17 - Nov.23 2002
1703 West Palm Beach Fl
Two Figurative Paintings selected by Amy Cappellazzo,Internationalist specialist
Head for the Department of Contemporary Art at Christie's Auction

National Academy of Design School of Fine Arts July 8 - Aug.1, 2002
5 East 89th Street, Ny Ny 10128
Granted The Abbey Scholarship Second Annual Workshop under the instruction of Richard Haas in Mural Painting and given privilege to exhibit from August throughout the month of September of work completed in the Mural Painting program

National Academy School of Fine Arts Year End Juried Exhibition June 15-21,2002
1083 Fifth Avenue, Ny Ny 10128
Figurative Pastel Drawing selected to be viewed in a group exhibition at the National Academy Museum, juried by Faculty members of the school,

Associated Artists of Winston-Salem 37th Annual National Juried Show,Apr.25-May25,02
226 N. Marshall Street Winston-Salem, NC 27101
Abstract drawing selected in "Dimensions 2002"exhibition by juror Frank Duturi,who has taught at C.W. Post, Long Island University and the LTA/Guggenheim Museum Program

The Artist Committee , ASA Artist's Ball, P.O Box 7876 NY, NY May 18, 2002
Three Paintings pertaining to contemporary Art selected to be viewed at a group exhibition of Armenian artists

Hera Gallery, 327 Main Street, Wakefield, RI 02880-0336 April 27 - May 25, 2002
Monochromatic Painting selected by Anne Rocheleau, Director of the Rhode Island Foundation Gallery in Providence RI


Robert De Grenier, New York NY Summer 1996
Was commissioned to make plastered molds used in the Donna Karan winter fashion show






.Biography of Artist Shant Beudjekian

Born in 1971in the city of Beirut, Lebanon where the practice of art became a way of expressing myself and sharing that with the people close to me. Simultaneously, it was in this time period that I discovered that soccer was another passion. My talent in soccer developed in the nearby soccer fields throughout the MiddleEast. Hence, I gained recognition from the national youth soccer team of under the age of 14, in Geneva, Switzerland and won many trophies and medals at that time.
After living in Geneva , we decided to emmigrate again to another peaceful city several thousand miles away to a city in California where we lived for ten years as I continued to complete a Bachelor degree in the area of Fine Arts with a minor in Ceramics at a School named Otis College of Art and Design. The school was affiliated with Parsons in New York until 1992. Followed by a one year at Rhode Island School of Design in the subject of Landscape Architecture. I have been painting and making Pottery seriously for the past four years as my work began to mature continuously with several acceptances from curators and Gallery Directors on the East Coast. Most notably an exhibition at the Pleaides Gallery ,New York City. I have participated in Juried competitions under such Jurors as Lisa Dennison Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Susan Masuoka, Director of Aidekman Arts Center Tufts University, Dana Miller, Assistant Curator, Whitney Museum, Dr. Andrea Spaulding Norris, at the Lousiana State University , Anne Rocheleau, Director of the Rhode Island Foundation Gallery, and David Kiehl, Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Now living in the West Coast I have been notable for selling art and exhibiting in numerous occasions at the SDAI San Diego Art Institute of the Living Artist and stores in San Diego.

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