Kate Shannon

My creative interests revolve around photography. I begin my visual projects by creating or stealing digital photographs. I then spend time at a computer screen meticulously erasing, expanding, or rearranging the tiny pixels that form these images. In this way, the photograph itself is not an end result but a foundation for further research, discovery, and invention. My digitally manipulated photographs explore ideas such as desire and disappointment. Lifted and Leaden addresses the rainy day when Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States. Shortly after the inauguration, the popular news organization CNN published an interactive gigapixel, or super high-resolution, image of the event online. To create this series, I explored the gigapixel and digitally extracted certain individuals from the attending crowd. The resulting lonely figures echo my emotions surrounding that day.

Currently, I am an associate professor of art at The Ohio State University Mansfield where I teach image-based studio art courses. My digitally manipulated photographs have been exhibited across the United States and I have received several grants for my creative activity, including a recent Coca-Cola Critical Difference for Women Grant for Research on Women, Gender, and Gender Equity. My teaching and research have been recognized with several awards, including the OSU Mansfield Campus Award for Excellence in Scholarship and the OSU Mansfield Campus Award for Excellence in Teaching. I received my BFA from the University of Kentucky and my MFA from Ohio State University in Columbus where I now live with my husband, son, and two cats.

website: kateshannon.net