ARTIST
​HONORS AND EXHIBITIONS​
2018 Socrates Annual Fellowship, Socrates Sculpture Park (2018/19)
LIC Arts Open Studio Group Exhibiition, The Plaxall Gallery (2018)
LIC Arts Open: Creature Group exhibition, The Factory LIC (2018)
Fantasy Fund Fellow, Modern Art Foundry (2017)
Model to Monument Fellow Arts Student League of New York (2012/13)
Sculpture Arts Student League of New York The Concours Exhibition, awarded Blue dot (2011)
Sculpture Arts Student League of New York The Concours Exhibition, awarded Blue dot (2010)
Sculpture Arts Student League 2008 Merit Scholarship Exhibition (June/ July 2009)
Sculpture The New Jersey Show - Group Exhibition (June 2009)
Sculpture Arts Student League of New York The Concours Exhibition, awarded Blue dot
Sculpture Arts Student League 2008 Merit Scholarship Award winner (2008)
Sculpture Arts Student League of New York The Concours Exhibition, awarded Red dot (2008)
Drawing Arts Student League of New York The Concours Exhibition, awarded Red dot (2005)
​Parsons School of Design Graduating class Exhibition and graduation with Honors (1999)

EXPERIENCE
Professional Illustration
Painting and Sculpture commissions
Professional Photography
Teaching Assistant Art Students League of New York 9/2008 - 8/2010
Instructor Parsons Continuing Education
12/2000 - 8/2001
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Shewin Banfield - Artist
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work is a reflection of the shapes, lines, designs and proportions of the beauty within all things visual and tangible, distilled through my visual and textured filter, manifested in sculpture and the visual arts.
EDUCATION
The Arts Student League of New York​
Sculpture, Painting 2004 - Present
Continuous Study Drawing w/ Antonio Antonios
Continuous Study Painting w/ Costa Vavagiakis
Continuous Study Anatomy w/ Frank Porcu
​Continuous Study Sculpture w/ Barney Hodes
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SACI Florence, Italy (Studio Art Centers International) ​
Fine Arts Painting, Drawing and Sculpture study
2007 Summer study with Costa Vavagiakis
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BFA, Illustration with Honors
1994 - 1999
Developed a visual communication vocabulary ranging from sculpture to painting and drawing techniques for print.

The David Passalacqua School​
Visual Arts 1994 Fall, Spring, Summer
Developed a wide range of illustrative technique while studying in Walt Disney World with Profesional Illustrator David Passalacqua
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Apprenticeship under International Fine Artist
Glenn Roopchand
1993 - Present
Mentor and life coach involving topics related Art, Politics, Psychology and the Social Sciences.