Galeria de Arte AFK
Brooke Shaden
Brooke Shaden was born in March of 1987 in Lancaster, PA, USA. She grew up near the "Amish Country" until attending Temple University. Brooke was photographically born in December 2008 after graduating from Temple with bachelor degrees in film and English. She now resides in Arizona.
She began creating self-portraits for ease and to have full control over the images, and has since grown into a self-portrait artist. Self portraiture for her is not autobiographical in nature. Instead, she attempts to place herself within worlds she wishes we could live in, where secrets float out in the open, where the impossible becomes possible.
Brooke works to create new worlds within her photographic frame. By using painterly techniques as well as the square format, traditional photographic properties are replaced by otherworldly elements. Brooke's photography questions the definition of what it means to be alive.
Exhibitions
2015
Group Exhibition: Staging and Revelation IV, Art Gallery AFK, Lisbon
Solo Exhibition, Coe Gallery: Searching for Fairytales
Group Exhibition, Sangre de Cristo Arts: Beautiful Grotesque
Art Fair, Affordable Art Fair New York with JoAnne Artman Gallery
Group Exhibition, Søren Christensen Gallery
Group Exhibition, Trudy Labell Fine Art: Beyond the Canvas
Group Exhibition, JoAnne Artman Gallery: Life Candy Part II
2014
Group Exhibition, Atelier TOZF: Strangeness
Group Exhibition, The Bello Studio: Landscapes for the Soul
Group Exhibition, Trudy Labell Fine Art
Art Fair, Affordable Art Fair New York with JoAnne Artman Gallery
Group Exhibition, Insight New Mexico
Group Exhibition: Staging and Revelation III, Art Gallery AFK, Lisbon
Group Exhibition, The Project Room: March Open Studio Exhibition
Solo Exhibition, The Harrington Gallery
Group Exhibition, Søren Christensen Gallery
Duo Exhibition, JoAnne Artman Gallery: Through The Looking Glass
2013
Solo Exhibition, PhotoNOLA with Søren Christensen Gallery
Art Fair, Dwell on Design with JoAnne Artman Gallery
Solo Exhibition, MORPHO Gallery: Morren Galleries
Solo Exhibition, Twilight Gallery
Art Fair, Affordable Art Fair New York with JoAnne Artman Gallery
Art Fair, PhotoLA with JoAnne Artman Gallery
2012
Solo Exhibition, Gulf Photo Plus: Vivid Dreams and Fragile Machines
Group Exhibition, PhotoVogue Italia
Art Fair, Affordable Art Fair New York with JoAnne Artman Gallery
Group Exhibition, Morren Galleries: Photo!
Duo Exhibition, Open Shutter Gallery: Brooke Shaden & Heidi Lender
Art Fair, Affordable Art Fair Belgium with Morren Galleries
Art Fair, Affordable Art Fair LA with JoAnne Artman Gallery
2011
Group Exhibition, The Annenberg Space for Photography: Digital Darkroom
Solo Exhibition, Pacific Art Foundation: Private Museum Showing
Group Exhibition, JoAnne Artman Gallery
Art Fair, San Diego Art Fair with JoAnne Artman Gallery
Group Exhibition, Morren Galleries
Group Exhibition, Project Imagin8ion
Group Exhibition, Carnegie Art Museum: Splash! liquid energy spattered
Art Fair, Affordable Art Fair New York with JoAnne Artman Gallery
Group Exhibition, Morren Galleries
Art Fair, Affordable Art Fair London with Morren Galleries
Art Fair, PhotoLA with JoAnne Artman Gallery
2010
Group Exhibition, Bluecanvas
Group Exhibition, JoAnne Artman Gallery
Group Exhibition, Arty
Group Exhibition, The Annex LA
Group Exhibition, Young Artists
Group Exhibition, NorbertEllen Gallery: Multiplicity
Group Exhibition, Create:Fixate: Vitalize
Group Exhibition, The Hive Gallery
Group Exhibition, Gallery Godo: At March
Honorable Mention, Artists Wanted
Solo Exhibition, Dance A Studio
Solo Exhibition, Flazh!Alley Art Studio
2009
Group Exhibition, Photographer of the Year 2010
Publications
2015
Book Cover, A Madness So Discreet
Magazine Feature, Capture Magazine: The Future of the Portrait
Magazine Feature, NICHE Magazine: Arts and Finds
Magazine Feature, Mozi Magazine: Find Fulfillment in the Process
Magazine Feature, Dreamer Journal: Floating on Clouds
Magazine Cover, Feature, Get Inspired Magazine, Issue 25: Brooke Shaden
Magazine Feature, Laguna Beach Magazine: Through the Digital Lens
Magazine Feature, Rangefinder:
The Educators: 10 Teaching and Tip-Sharing Photographers to Keep on Your Radar
Book Cover, The Beneath
Magazine Feature, Photographize Magazine, Issue 25: Brooke Shaden
Magazine Feature, My Modern Metropolis:
Beautiful Triptych Shows Photographer's 14 Year Struggle with Fibromyalgia
Magazine Feature, Visionz Magazine: Beautiful Darkness
Magazine Feature, RangeFinder: What's in Brooke Shaden's Bag?
Magazine Interview, Beautiful Savage: Interview: Brooke Shaden Photography
2014
Magazine Cover, MUZE
Magazine Cover, Feature, PHOTOGRAPH, No.10
Magazine Feature, 1X Magazine
Magazine Cover, Feature, Shoot Me Magazine
Book Cover, Poisoned Apples
Book Cover, Les Innocents
Magazine Feature, Click Magazine: Into the Deep
Magazine Feature, Design Bureau
Magazine Feature, Milano World
Magazine Feature, Portrait Photography
Magazine Feature, Award.IO
Book Cover, Inland
Book Cover, Wild Life
Book Cover, Boom
Book Cover, Always Emily
Magazine Feature, Shutter Magazine
Magazine Cover, Feature, Coast Magazine
2013
Magazine Feature, Professional Photographer
Magazine Feature, Digital SLR Photography, UK
Book, Inspiration in Photography
Magazine Cover, Feature, Miroir Magazine: Wet
Book Cover, Some Quiet Place
Magazine Cover, Feature, Sphera Medical Journal
Magazine Interview, Ezra Magazine: Protector of Magic
Magazine Feature, Ezra Magazine: Channelling Your Inner 'Weirdo'
2012
Magazine Feature, American Photo Magazine
2011
Magazine Feature, The Atlantic: Dreamworlds Made Easy
Magazine Cover, Musetouch Magazine
Magazine Feature, Bullett Magazine: Brooke Nesbitt Channels 'Lady Lilith'
Magazine Feature, Coast Magazine
Magazine Feature, Arcadia Magazine
Magazine Feature, ArtZine
Magazine Feature, Refuse Magazine
Book Cover, Il Tribunale delle Anime
Magazine Feature, Vogue Italia
Magazine Feature, Papercut Magazine
Magazine Interview, Collective Magazine: An Interview with Brooke Shaden
Magazine Feature, ZOOM Magazine
Magazine Feature, Amor Fati Magazine
Magazine Feature, Art Ltd Magazine
Calendar Feature, 2011 Bluecanvas Calendar
2010
Book, Visions of Worlds
Magazine Feature, Photo+
Magazine Feature, Bluecanvas Magazine, Issue 6
Book Feature, The Daily Book of Photography
Magazine Feature, Doze-Mag
Magazine Feature, Photographie Magazine
Magazine Feature, Carpaccio Magazine
Magazine Feature, Fotonia Magazine
Magazine Feature, Downtown L.A. Life Magazine
Magazine Feature, Ozine Magzine
2009
Magazine Feature, Downtown L.A. Life Magazine
Magazine Feature, Kodak 'In Camera' Magazine
Book Feature, White as a Colour
Awards
2014
Winner, Shutter Magazine: Top 10 Most Influential Photographers
2013
Nomination, Framed Awards: Best Conceptual
Nomination, Framed Awards: Best Fine Art
-Nomination, Framed Awards: Most Influential
2012
Winner, Project Imaginat10n: Theme: Obstacle
2011
Winner, Project Imagin8ion: Theme: Time
2010
Winner, 30 Under 30 Women Photographers
2009
Honorable Mention, Photographer of the Year 2010