About
Education
Cranbrook Academy of Art, MFA, Painting and Drawing, May 2000
The Kansas City Art Institute, BFA, Painting and Drawing, May 1998
Bennington College, Fine Art, Fall 1992 - Spring 1994
Artist residency programs and Fellowships
The Maple Terrace Residency Program, October 2018
Two Coats of Paint Resident Artist, October 2017
Two Coats of Paint Resident Artist, February 2016
Yaddo, August 2015
The MacDowell Colony, June/July 2015
The Vermont Studio Center, January 2014
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023
THE DRESS/WHAT TOUCHES THE FLOOR, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2022
What She Said. Jeff marfa, Marfa, TX
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA
2021
Gyan Shrosbree: Year of The Bath, NX.IX Gallery, Hudson,MA (catalog/book)
2020
My Grandmother’s Closet, Ola Studio, Pound Ridge, NY
2019
Gyan Shrosbree: Closet Systems, presented by the Iowa Arts Council and State Historical Museum, Des Moines, IA
2017
Built-In Closet, Ripon College, Ripon, WI
Tarp Studies by Gyan Shrosbree, Haus Collective, San Antonio, TX
2016
The Glamour is Gone, Lovey Town Space, Madison, WI (catalogue)
Walk-In Closet, Grand View University, Des Moines, IA
2013
I Love You Because Your Pants Are Too Short, Curated by Mary Laube, The Times Club, Iowa City, IA (catalogue)
2012
Put yourself in Her Shoes, The Beauty Shop, Fairfield, IA
2011
Dog Park, Ivy Hall, San Antonio, TX
2010
The Suspects, FLIGHT Gallery, San Antonio, TX (catalogue)
Power to Stop Time, Artpace San Antonio, Public Art Piece Installed in Irving Middle School, San Antonio, TX
2009
Homecoming, Tim The Girl, San Antonio, TX
2008
Gyan Shrosbree Paintings, Haus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006
9 Steps Closer To a New You, Unity Gallery, Maharishi University, Fairfield, IA
9 Steps Closer To A New You, Shareen Downtown, Los Angeles, CA
2005
I Loved My Bat, The Bower, San Antonio, TX
2003
I am not Afraid Anymore, Berel Space, Brooklyn, NY
2002
Stray Show, The Bower, Chicago, IL
Fashion Place, The Bower, San Antonio, TX
2000
Fashion Show by Gyan, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Two-Person and Three-Person Exhibitions
2025
Gyan Shrosbree/ Kathleen Shrosbree Collection, Fashion Show/Live Event, ICON, Fairfield,IA
All Dressed Up, Gyan Shrosbree/ Kathleen Shrosbree Collection, Fashion Show/Live Event, Cedar Rapids Art Museum, Cedar Rapids, IA
2023
Lashing Out, Gyan Srosbree and Jen King, LaiSun Keane Gallery, Boston, MA
2022
Let Me Hear Your Body Talk, Work by Gyan Shrosbree and Joey Fauerso, WRONG Gallery, Marfa, TX
2019
Sense of Place, Work by Gyan Shrosbree and Jim Shrosbree, NX.IX Gallery, Detroit, MI
2017
Reliquary, Work by Gyan Shrosbree and Brian Paul, Grapefruits, Portland, OR
Finding Distance: Work by Gyan Shrosbree and Jim Shrosbree, Yellow Door Gallery, Des Moines, IA
2015
Arranged Marriage, Gyan Shrosbree And Surya Gied, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA
The Ladies Association, Gyan Shrosbree/Joey Fauerso, ICON Gallery, Fairfield, IA
2013
What Resonates, 1522 St. Louis, Kansas City, MO
2012
Gyan Shrosbree and James Shrosbree, Unity Gallery, Maharishi University, Fairfield, IA
2011
Gyan Shrosbree and Joey Fauerso, Unity Gallery, Maharishi University, Fairfield, IA
2010
This is All Real, Unit B Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2008
Hey What’s on Your Mind?, Fake Space, Los Angeles CA
2007
Shrosbree/Muraceski, The Santa Fe Art Colony, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Shrosbree, Gallery 51, Fairfield, IA
2000
Introductions, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Dress Rehearsal by Gyan, Fashion Show, Cranbrook Academy of Art Student Degree Show Opening,Bloomfield Hills, MI
The Life of A Princess, Performance, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI,
Air Quotes, Forum Gallery, Gyan Shrosbree and Jessica Dickinson Bloomfield Hills, MI,
1999
Disposables by Gyan, Fashion Show, Bloomfield Hills, MI, November
Permission Fashions by Gyan, Collaborative Space/Store with Tao Urban, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Permission Fashions Live, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Cus' We Wanna, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Painting Deconstructed, Curated by Leeza Meksin, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2023
Off/Grid, Hands on Main, Curated by Willy Somma, Catskills, NY
Have Your Cake And Eat It Too, Melhaup Gallery, Virtual Exhibition
Salad Days, Personal Space,Velejo, CA
Library, Tappeto Volante, curated by Glenn Goldberg, Brooklyn, NY
Message From a Friend, Studio Archive Project, curated by Yevgeniya Baras, virtual exhibition
Faculty Exhibition, Wege Art Center, Maharishi International University, Fairfield. IA
2022
Vibrant Expressions, Anderson Gallery Drake University, Des Moines, IA September-October
2021
Current Faculty, Wege Center for the Arts, Maharishi International University, Fairfield, IA
Dubuque Museum of Art Biennial Exhibition, Dubuque, IA
I Don’t Want To Be Lonely, Fluffy Crimes, Chicago, IL
Glamorous Decay, Curina, virtual exhibition
Flat File 2021, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2020
November 2, M Street Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
Unruly Hair, Unruly Bodies, Curina, virtual exhibition
Art of Our Time, Mainframe Studio/Olson Larsen Gallery, Des Moines, IA
2019
Got it For Cheap, The Hole, New York, NY
2018
Faculty Show, Unity Gallery, Maharishi International University, Fairfield, IA
Rhythm & Rush, Ground Floor Gallery, juried by Catherine Haggarty, Nashville, TN
One: Annual Emerging Artist Exhibit 2018, Cleve Carney Art Gallery, Glen Ellyn, IL
2017
If Not For Space, Curated by Yellow Door Gallery, Unity Gallery, Fairfield, IA
A Sag, Harbored, Western Exhibitions, Curated by Scott Speh, Chicago, IL
A Tiny Rivulet in the Distant Forest, ArtStart, Curated by Michael Velliquette, Rhinelander, WI
2016 Two Coats of Paint Resident Artist Group Show, NYSRP, Curated by Sharon Butler, Brooklyn, NY,
2016
Deal With It, Maake Magazine Group Exhibition, The Woskob Family Gallery, State College, PA
Deutschland, Lovey Town Space, Madison, WI/Berlin,GE
Faculty Show, Maharishi International University, Fairfield, IA
2014
Orphans in The Storm, Lovey Town Space, Curated by Michael Velliquette, Madison, WI
Whimsy, Icon Gallery, Curated by Ken Dubin, Fairfield. IA
2013
Slipping Glimpse, Curated by Surya Gied,Maharishi International University, Fairfield, IA
The Joy of The Task Was Its Own Reward, Lovey Town Space, Curated by Michael Velliquette, Madison, WI
2012
A.I.R. Gallery 10th Biennial, curated by ingrid Schaffner, Brooklyn, NY
Parallax Art Fair, New York, NY
2011
Faculty Show, Unity Gallery, Maharishi International University
2009
Hey What’s on Your Mind?, Parts & Labor, New York, NY
2008
Want and Need, Parts & Labor, New York, NY
The Possibility of Love With a Stranger, Fake Space, Los Angeles CA
Red Dot, Blue Star Contemporary. San Antonio, TX
2005
Flat Files, Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Matzo Files, Art Auction, New York, NY
2004
The Matzo Files, New York, NY
2003
8 x 10”, Arthouse, traveling exhibition
2001
9/11, Benefit Auction, Long Island City, NY
2000
Cranbrook Academy of Art Graduate Summer Exhibition, Curated by Buzz Spector, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Cranbrook Academy of Art Student Degree Show, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Scholarships and Grants
Wege Foundation Grant: Fall 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2021,Fall 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2017
1999 - 2000 Robert H. Daisley Memorial Scholarship, Cranbrook Academy of Art
1995 - 1998 Trustee Merit Scholarship, The Kansas City Art Institute
Public Art
‘The Power to Stop Time’, Artpace San Antonio, Public Art Piece Installed in Irving Middle School, 2011, permanent installation.
Exhibition Catalogs and Books
“Lashing Out” exhibition catalog Gyan Shrosbree and Jennifer King, LaiSun Keane Gallery 2023
“Year of the Bath” Book designed by Christian Perez Morin and published by NXIX 2021
“The Glamour is Gone,” catalog, published by Lovey Town 2016
"I Love You Because Your Pants Are Too Short,” catalog published by Prairie Lights Books 2013
"The Suspects,” A book of 21 paintings by Gyan Shrosbree, Published By DEVIBOOK, 2010
Selected Publications and Blogs
Artscope Magazine, A Synergy of Dialogue: Jennifer King and Gyan Shrosbree at LaiSun Keane by Suzanne Volmer, June 2023
Two Coats of Paint, Gyan Shrosbree: Fluorescent Beauty and The Feminine Gaze by Rob Samartino, February 2023
Yale University Radio WYBC, Interview With Brainard Carey, January 2023
Hyperallergic, Figuration and Fragmentation in Marfa, Lauren Klotzman, April 2022
Calling Cards, Exhibition Essay, Wendy Atwell, Wrong Gallery, Marfa, TX, April 2022
New American Paintings No. 155, Midwest Issue, 2021
Egomania Magazine, Featured Artist, May 2021
The Coastal Post, Interview and studio Visit, February 2019
Inertia Studio Visits, Interview and Studio Visit, October 2018
Precog, Featured Artist, October 2018
Precog, Featured Artist, Published August 2016
Maake Magazine Featured Artist, Interview, Published August 2015
Painter’s Bread, Interview and Studio Visit, January, 2015
Clothing Collaborations
Bathing Suits and Towels referencing my paintings for JEFF MARFA and Willy Somma (ongoing)
Hand-painted Tunics by Gyan, made in collaboration with Kathleen Shrosbree, for Fashion Show at Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY 2023
Clothing made from printed fabric referencing my paintings and made by Kathleen Shrosbree (ongoing)
Limited edition painted clothing, in collaboration with Torrey Witherspoon Designs 2019
Teaching
Maharishi International University, Associate Professor Studio Art, Fairfield. IA 2019-present
Maharishi International University, Assistant Professor Studio Art, Fairfield, IA 2011-2019
St Philips College, Adjunct Faculty, Art Department, San Antonio, TX 2009 – 2011