Shannon Castleman

EDUCATION

San Francisco Art Institute, MFA in Photography, San Francisco, California, 2002 - 2004

New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, BFA in Photography, New York, New York, 1989 -1993

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, PHOTOGRAPHY & FILM, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, 2013 - Present

VISITING FACULTY, INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, 2013, 2016

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY & DIGITAL IMAGING, School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2006 - 2013

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Dar Al Hekma College, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 2004 - 2006

GRANTS, AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS

Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Photography & Film Travel Grant, 2016

Honorable Mention, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, New Waves 2015, Curator: Lisa Dent, 2015

Society of Photographic Education 2012 Gary B Fritz Imagemaker Award for Excellence, 2012

Short listed / Finalists: COAL PRIZE/PRIX COAL Art & Ecology, Paris, France. Migrant Ecologies Project w/ Lucy Davis, 2011

Academic Research Grant, Tier 0, Principal Investigator, Nanyang Technological University. Project: Odyssey of Obsolescence: Mobile Businesses in Developing Asia, 2009

Academic Research fund (AcRF), Tier 1, (Co-PI), Nanyang Technological University. Project: The Secret Lives of Forest Products Tracing “memories” of Southeast Asian forest products in time & space. An interdisciplinary investigation combining contemporary art, biology and DNA timber tracking technology, 2009

IMI General Grant, Institute for Media Innovation, Nanyang Technological University. Project: Synchronized Community Video project: Singapore/Cuba, 2009

IMI Seed Grant (Co-PI), Institute for Media Innovation, Nanyang Technological University. Project: The Application of Computational Aesthetics in the Acquisition and Treatment of Digital Images, 2009

The Substation Art Center, Commission for annual SeptFest. Project : Jurong West Street 81, 2008

Nanyang Technological University RCC Grant. Project: Jurong West Street 81, 2008

Nanyang Technological University RCC Grant. Project: Jugaads and Peripatetic Entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia, 2007

Murphy Fellowship in the Fine Arts, sponsored by The San Francisco Foundation, 2003

SFAI Grant, San Francisco Art Institute, 2002

Lew Wasserman Scholarship, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, 1993