Curatorial & Judicial
Inpost Art Space, Curator: 2004 - 2007
Metro Youth Art Exhibit - Judge for Mixed Media Fine Art / 2008 - 2013, 2015 - 2016
Albuquerque Academy - Invitational Portfolio Review and Critique / 2009
South Broadway Cultural Center - Plush, Curator / September, 2012
April Price Projects Gallery - Studio She, co-Curator / 2017
Exhibit/208 - Toy Show, co-Curator / December, 2019
Volunteer
Bernalillo County Arts Board / Chair, 2016 - 2017 / district representative, 2011 - 2016
Friends for Life / Fundraising gala event art auction for NM AIDS Services, 2004 - 2006
Community Donations & Contributions
Sawmill Community Land Trust - supporting the trust for redevelopment in the historic Sawmill
Kitchen Angels - supporting home and food insecurity in New Mexico
Harwood 12 x 12 - supporting the Harwood Art Center
Heart Gallery of New Mexico Foundation
Roadrunner Food Bank - supporting food insecurity in New Mexico
Ornament Auction - supporting the University of New Mexico, Art Museum
Asteroid Project / Houston, TX
Teaching
All Black and White - STEAM Artist, facilitating STEAM based artistic programming:
Albuquerque International Balloon Museum, 2022
Working Classroom / mixed media painting 2001 - 2002 Albuquerque Museum of Art and History / art school 2003 - 2006
Harwood Art Center / studio arts drawing and painting / adult, 2002 - 2005 Art Camp, 2011 - 2017
Youth Mural Project, 2013 - 2017
Art Center and Design College / 20c Art History, 2005 - 2007
Guest Artist / La Queva High School / 2006
Guest Artist / Sandia High School / 2009, 2010, 2011
Arte' Encatado, City of Albuquerque / 2014 - 2016 Albuquerque Bio Park / Summer Art Program 2013 - 2015
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EXHIBITIONS
2024
Embodiments of Wonder, March 7 - April 13, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
Invitational
2023
Simplicity, Robert M. Ellis Trust and Curated Creative Studio, Albuquerque, NM
Monothon 23, Santa Fe Community Gallery, Convention Center, Santa Fe, NM
2022
Regalos, Hecho Gallery, Santa Fe, regional juried exhibition
All Black and White, International Balloon Museum Gallery, curated by Rachel Moore and Augustine Romero
2021
Arts Thirve, Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, international juried exhibition
Select Solo
2020 University of New Mexico /Jonathan Abrams MD Art Gallery
The Serpent in the Stream - works in ink by Shawn Turung
2013 Exhibit/208, Loaded, Albuquerque
2009 Blossom Street Gallery,Theory, Houston, TX
2008 Box Gallery loft, Selections from the Infinity and Optic Series, Santa Fe, NM
2007 Exhibit/208, New Work, Albuquerque, NM
2005 Harwood Art Center, Minions, Albuquerque , NM
1989 The Long Island Museum of Fine Art, Shawn Turung, curated by Eleanor Flomenhaft,
Long Island, NY
Juried
2017 City of Santa Fe Community Gallery @ the Santa Fe Convention Center, Red Book, Santa Fe, NM
2015 Center for Contemporary Arts, 18 Days, juried, New Mexico Committee of the National Foundation in the Arts,
Santa Fe, NM
2010 Texas National, juror: Judy Pfaff, Cole Art Center, Nacadoches, TX
2009 The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, Biennial Southwest, juror: Neal Benezra, MOMA, San Francisco
2008 The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, Biennial Southwest, juror: Dr. Stephanie Hanor, chief curator,
San Diego, MOCA
2005 The New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Originals 2005, Santa Fe, NM
2004 Santa Fe Gallery @ the Santa Fe Convention Center, Pollination, Santa Fe, NM
Invitational
2018 Harwood Art Center, Prelude
2017 Harwood Art Center, XING!, public art installation by Stephanie Lerma and Shawn Turung, Albuquerque, NM
2017 Luanem Gallery, Art Jams, Albuquerque, NM
2016 New Concepts Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2016 South Broadway Cultural Center, The Bomb - part of On The Map: Unfolding Albuquerque Art+Design
2016 Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, Minatures and More / fea. MORE artist, Albuquerque, NM
2016 Luanem, Fresh Paint, Albuquerque
2015 Women in Creativity, Pictures of You, Farm and Table, Albuquerque, NM
2015 Page Coleman Gallery, Wild+Life, curated by Page Coleman and Margo Geist
2013 Harwood Art Center, Prelude, Albuquerque
2010 The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History,
Albuquerque Now, curated by Andrew Conners, Albuquerque
2009 Open Space Gallery, Nation, Albuquerque
2003 Site Santa Fe, Monothon 18, Santa Fe
1998 Sally Sprout Gallery, group show, Houston, TX
Select Group:
2019 Exhibit/208: The Toy Show: a celebration of art inspired by toys - concept and co-curator
2018 April Price Projects Gallery, Views From the Beach, Albuquerque
2017 African American Arts Pavilion, A Map of My Own - curated by Bernalillo County arts program, Albuquerque, NM
2017 April Price Projects Gallery, STUDIO she, Albuquerque, NM
2017 City of Santa Community Gallery @ the SF Convention Center, Spectacle
2017 Harwood Art Center, HOME - an exhibition by the s(and) collective
2016 Exhibit/208, Intersections:
sculptures by Gary Wellman - mixed media works by Shawn Turung, Albuquerque, NM
2016 New Concepts Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2016 Exhibit/208, TONDO, s(and) collective, Albuquerque, NM
2016 Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, Miniatures and More
2015 Exhibit 208, s(and) an Introduction, Albuquerque, NM
2015 City Santa Fe Community Gallery @ the SF Convention Center, Breaking the Block, invitational, Santa Fe, NM
2014 Harwood Art Center, main gallery/ Finding Reason, Shawn Turung and Maude Andrade, Albuquerque, NM
2012 The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, Miniatures and More,
featured MORE artist, Albuquerque, NM
2007 Page Coleman Gallery, Grand re-Opening - Albuquerque, NM
2005 Katrina Lasko Gallery, Sensual or Erotic, Bernalillo, NM
2005 Inpost Artspace, Inpost Curators, Albuquerque, NM
2004 Weyrich Gallery, The Power of Art, Albuquerque, NM
2006 Rivera Peterson Gallery, Equinox - Ricardo Chavez Mendez, Shawn Turung and Adrian Martinez, Albuquerque, NM
2003 Blossom Street Gallery, New Artists, Houston
2002 Scaravelli Gallery, Radius, Cleveland, OH
2001 Koelsch Gallery, way cool, Houston, TX
1989 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, fellowship exhibition
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Group Affiliations
New Mexico Women in the Arts
s(and) art collective
Studio She
Select Publications
2017 New American Painters - interview by Diana Gaston/
director of the Tamarind Institute
2010 Pasatiempo, Santa Fe New Mexican arts magazine
2007 Albuquerque Tribune, review by Nancy Salem
Select Awards
NEAA grant
AIA award for children’s museum design
Presidential Scholar, finalist
National Gold Key award for painting
National Gold Key award for drawing
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