Shaina Kasztelan
B. 1990
Education
2012
College for Creative Studies Detroit, MI
Bachelor of Fine Arts Concentration in Painting Minor in Ceramics Graduated with Honors
Solo Exhibitions
2017
-“Wet Hot American Queen of the Damned” KO Gallery, Hamtramck, MI
2016
-“Somewhere Over the Rainbow is a Double Rainbow” Hatch Art, Hamtramck, MI
Collaborative Exhibitions
2018
-“D3PR3$$10N N4P” (w/Heidi Barlow) Hatch Art, Hamtramck, MI
2013
-“Everything Happens So Much” (w/Heidi Barlow) North End Studios, Detroit, MI
Select Group Exhibitions
2021
-”Hard/Soft” Galerie Camille, Detroit, MI
2019
-“Party Room V” Milkglass Co, Toronto, ON
-”Funhouse” Counter Culture Arts Collective, Saginaw, MI
2018
-“UFO Time” UFO Factory, Detroit, MI
-“Heat Wave” Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
-“Ice Cream Social” Dust to Dust, Portland, OR
-“Pre-Fab/Post-Fab: Art in a Readymade Era” University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities, Ann Arbor, MI
2017
-“Millennial Pink” Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
-“No Saints, No Souls” KO Gallery, Hamtramck, MI
-“Murals in the Market Original Art Exhibition” Inner State Gallery, Detroit, MI -“Heavenly Dogs Inaugural Group Show” KO Gallery, Hamtramck, MI
-“REMIX” Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
-“8 Bit” Hatch Art, Hamtramck, MI
-“99 Cents or Less” Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
-“Gilda’s Girls” Baltimore Gallery, Detroit, MI
-“Tunnel of Love: Into the Portal” Pikes Gallery, Eastpointe, MI
2016
-“Wild Tribe” Pikes Gallery, Eastpointe, MI
-“Wall of 100 Makers” Masonic Temple, Detroit, MI
-“Stick Em Up: Detroit Sticker Jam” Pikes Gallery, Eastpointe, MI
2015
-“Red Bull House of Art Alumni Exhibition” Red Bull House of Art, Detroit, MI
-“It’s Like Toys in Here” Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
2014
-“Red Bull House of Art Cycle 9 Residency Exhibition” Red Bull House of Art, Detroit, MI -“Who is PASSENGER?” 119 State St., Detroit, MI
-“Art Outpost” Hermann & Audrey, Toronto, ON
-“Imperfect Pairs” Popps Packing, Hamtramck, MI
-“PASSENGER Detroit Outreach Program” Coleman A. Young Municipal Center, Detroit, MI 2013
-“Ofrenda Altar Display” Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
-“Navel” North End Studios, Detroit, MI
-“Detroit Design Festival” North End Studios, Detroit, MI
-“Citydrift” Kunsthalle Museum of Multimedia and Light Art, Detroit, MI
-“BYOB” North End Studios, Detroit, MI
-“Chimera” Starkweather Art Centers, Romeo, MI
2012
-“Out/Hand Building” FRNTI3R Mobile Gallery, Detroit, MI
-“CCS Fine Art Department Senior Thesis” Popps Packing, Hamtramck, MI
-“Painting in the Expanded Field” Ford Field, Detroit, MI
-“Between Places” 6018 North Kenmore, Chicago, IL
-“T.O.L.2” WAKE, Redford, MI
-“Ceramics: Chaos to Perfection” Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
Residencies 2014
-Red Bull House of Art Cycle 9: Eastern Market, Detroit, MI
Awards
2021
-Maggie Allesee Department of Theatre and Dance: Graduate Research Assistant Fellowship
Mural Work
2021
-WPP, Marquette Building, Detroit, MI
2020
-Condado Tacos, Troy, MI
2019
-CIMU Festival, UNAM Faculty of Arts and Design, Mexico City, Mexico -Condado Tacos, Royal Oak, MI
2018
-Antihero, Ferndale, MI
-ArtPrize, Grand Rapids, MI
2017
-Murals in the Market, Detroit, MI
2016
-The 37th Shield Library, Detroit, MI -Stadium Roller Rink, Hillsdale, MI -Agora Arts, Ferndale, MI -Vicecream, Detroit, MI
2015
-Selden Standard, Detroit, MI
-Murals in the Market, Detroit, MI
2014
-NXNE Festival, Graffiti Alley, Toronto, ON
Assistantships
2021
-Mural Assistant, Glass City River Wall, Toledo, OH (*largest mural in the United States)
2018
-Artist Assistant for Beverly Fishman’s “Public Matters” piece, Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI
-Mural Assistant for Beverly Fishman’s “RISE”, Motown Sign Co, Detroit, MI
-Artist Assistant, Faile & Deluxx Fluxx, Detroit, MI (2018-2019
2017
-Mural Assistant, Motown Sign Co, Southfield, MI
-Mural Assistant, Carlos Rolon & Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI -Artist Assistant, Kiji McCafferty & Red Bull House of Art, Detroit, MI
2016
-Artist Assistant, Beau Stanton & Red Bull House of Art, Detroit, MI -Mural Assistant, Jesse Kassel, Detroit, MI (2016-2018)
-Artist Assistant, Ellen Coons, Detroit, MI
2011
-Mural Assistant, Dana Major Kanovitz, Cadiz, KY
Production Work
2022
-”Head Over Heels” by James Magruder and Jeff Whitty, Co-Paint Lead, Hilberry Theatre, Detroit, MI (upcoming)
-”Fairview” by Jackie Sibblies Drury, Carpenter, Hilberry Theatre, Detroit, MI (upcoming)
2021
-“Snow Queen” by Tyler Monroe, Prop Master, Hilberry Theatre, Detroit, MI
-”Everybody” by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Carpenter, Hilberry Theatre, Detroit, MI
-Window Display Artist, Playground Detroit, Detroit, MI
2019
-Promotional Advertisement Content Creator for Vans, a VF Company & Nordstrom, Remote -”House of Vans”, Live Event Mural Painter for Vans, a VF Company, Jefferson School, Detroit, MI
-Promotional Event Content Creator for Vans, a VF Company, Detroit Footlocker, Detroit, MI
2018
-Production Artist, The Parade Company, Detroit, MI (2018-2021)
-Event Content Creator for Google/Irregular Labs, Playground Detroit, Detroit, MI
2017
-Event Prop Maker for Takoi, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
2015
-Production Artist, Ann Williams Group, Bloomfield Hills, MI (2015-2016)
Online Publications
2019
-Ivana Kalafatic, “Vans Kicks it with Muralist Shaina Kasztelan”, Detroitisit, August 29, 2019. https://detroitisit.com/neighborhood-shoutout-vans-kicks-it-with-this-muralist/
-Saylor Soinski, “116 Shaina Kasztelan”, Essay’d, January 27, 2019. http://essayd.org/?p=2588 -Sara Barron, “Antihero combines fine dining with street art to feature Detroit artists”, Playground Detroit (Blog), February 20, 2019. https://playgrounddetroit.com/antihero-combines-fine-dining-street-art-featuring-detroit-artists/ -Michael Hsiung, “Getting Down in Detroit with Shaina Kasztelan”, House of Vans (Blog), January 30, 2019. https://houseofvans.tumblr.com/post/182431831928/getting-down-in-detroit-with-shaina-kasztel an
2017
-Sarah Rose Sharp, “Millennials band together in Hamtramck art collective”, Detroit Free Press, September 14, 2017.
https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/arts/2017/09/14/heavenly-dogs-art-collective-hamtra mck/660202001/
-Sarah Rose Sharp, “A Feminist Portrait of Adolescence Through Glittery Commodities”, Hyperallergic, July 28, 2017. https://hyperallergic.com/392105/a-feminist-portrait-of-adolescence-through-glittery-commodities /
2016
-Sarah Rose Sharp, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow is a Double Rainbow: Way up high with Shaina Kasztelan”, Detroit Art Review, May 31, 2016. https://detroitartreview.com/2016/05/shaina-kasztelan-hatch-gallery/
-Sarah Rose Sharp, “Live the Dream with Shaina Kasztelan”, Breakfast with the Artist (Blog), August 10, 2016. https://sarahrosesharp.com/2016/08/12/810-2016-live-the-dream-with-shaina-kasztelan/
-Sara Telle, “Agora Arts: The Vision Becomes A Reality”, Ferndale Friends, September 3, 2016. https://www.ferndalefriends.net/agora-arts-the-vision-becomes-a-reality/
-K.A. Letts, “Over the rainbow with Shaina Kasztelan”, Rustbelt Arts (Blog), May 23, 2016. https://rustbeltarts.com/2016/05/23/over-the-rainbow-with-shaina-kasztelan/
2015
-Michael A. Hodges, “‘Toys’ exhibit: A little nuts, a lot of fun”, The Detroit News, February 5, 2015. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/arts/2015/02/05/like-toys/22920335/ -Sarah Rose Sharp, “A lot of DAM fun with “It’s Like Toys In Here””, Knight Foundation, February 13, 2015. https://knightfoundation.org/articles/a-lot-of-dam-fun-with-its-like-toys-in-here/
Print Publications
-“Maximalist”, Six Magazine, Volume 1 Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2019.
-Nu Gallery Magazine, Volume 2, 2019. Pages, 35-44.
-K.A. Letts, “D3PR3$$10N N4P”, New Art Examiner, Volume 32 Issue 5, May/June 2018. Pages 18 & 26.
-Amy Peebles, “NXNE Art 2014”, Bizarre Beyond Belief, Issue #14, August 2014. Page 48.
TV/Film
Asha Patel, Interview, MetroArts Detroit, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 2019. https://vimeo.com/447886348