SHANNON PAWLIW
Shannon Pawliw is a Vancouver-based artist working across painting, installation and conceptual practice. Her work considers how we assign value and meaning to the things that make up our lives, from objects and labour to identity, memory and human connection.
Selected Work
How to Disappear
2025–ongoing
A series of paintings considering ageing, visibility and the complicated experience of becoming less visible while feeling increasingly oneself.
ART-o-LATOR
2026–ongoing
A human-powered art vending machine that uses humour, mystery and exchange to question how monetary value is assigned to art.
WIP Painting Project
2024–ongoing
An ongoing series in which each painting remains deliberately unfinished until it is purchased, making the transaction itself part of the work.
Hold Everything Dear
2023
Paintings about motherhood, youth, memory and impermanence, and the impossible desire to hold onto what is continually changing.
THIS Gallery
2020–ongoing
An ongoing social and curatorial project that treats the structures surrounding the exhibition, exchange and valuation of art as creative material.
The Anti-Bland Brigade
2024–ongoing
A colourful, playful project celebrating individuality, creative expression and the human impulse to resist sameness.
CONTACT
For inquiries about exhibitions, projects, collaborations or available work:
Vancouver, BC, Canada