BIO
Shamus Clisset (aka FakeShamus) is a digital artist based in Brooklyn, NY.
Working with 3D modeling, rendering, animation, and game-development software for over 15 years, and recently incorporating custom AI workflows and other new tools, his work reflexively critiques notions of progress, identity and the future. His absurd, self-conscious sense of humor combines with a painter's approach to composition and scale, resulting in epically irreverent, high-resolution digital images.
FakeShamus’s world occupies a post-meaning void of memes, the alternate realities of video games and online identity, our fading sense of history, and a bleak future. But it’s fun!
CV
Born in Huntington, NY.
Lives and works in Brooklyn and NYC
EDUCATION
1998 BFA in Painting and Art History, The College of Santa Fe, NM
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 "Alpha AF", Postmasters Gallery, NY
2017 "Mr. Realistic", UMKC Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MO
2015 "Lost Raver / Empty Future", Barbara Walters Gallery, SLC, Bronxville, NY
2014 "Space God / Magic Guy", Postmasters Gallery, NY
2013 “Shamus Clisset”, Storefront Ten Eyck, Brooklyn
2012 “Empties”, Caesura Gallery (caesura.cc)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 “ASMR”, Curated by David Gryn, Daata x Infinite Objects, 1500 Broadway, NY
2022 "Portrait Show", Ravestijn Gallery, Amsterdam
“Ed von Schlecks Grill-Lustbarkeit”, Auge & Welt, Aachen
“Patriot”, O’Flaherty’s, NY
2021 "Metaglyphs", curated by Katie Peyton, link
“Pieces of Me”, Transfer Gallery / Left.gallery, link
2019 “Too Beautiful to be Real” @ The Wrong Bienniale, link
2018 "Terms and Conditions May Apply", Annka Kultys Gallery, London
"Alter Ego", SCAD Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, GA
2017 "Parallel Reality" (with Frank Wang), Wallace Gallery, SUNY Old Westbury, NY
"Digital Profiling", NY Media Center, Brooklyn
"CON-FIGURATION", Postmasters Gallery, NY
2016 "the real-fake.org.02", Bronx Art Space
"Decensortized: A Safe Space" Westbeth Gallery, NY
“Dance with flARmingos”, Queens Museum, NY
"Nargifsus", Transfer Gallery, Brooklyn
"Blue Sky Thinking", curated by GRIN, Spring/Break Art Show, NY
2015 "Portrait in the 21st Century" (with Austin Lee), Untitled Miami, FL
"Feral City", Undercurrent Projects, NY
“Dance with flARmingos”, Gallery Protocol, Gainesville, FL
"WOANDER", GRIN Gallery, Providence, RI
"Pop Stars! Popular Culture and Contemporary Art", 21C Museum, Durham
2014 "Portrait in the Twenty-First Century", Postmasters Gallery, NY
"We Know What We Like", curated by Hrag Vartanian, Lori Bookstein Fine Arts, NY
“Gundam Pizza Party Space Jam (Featuring R Kelly)”, cloaque.org
2013 "Para-Real" curated by Magda Sawon, 601 Artspace, NY
"Das beste Mittel gegen alles Identische? Identität. Galerie Thomas Flor, Berlin
“No Name”, On Stellar Rays, NY
“Shoot”, Lesley Heller Workspace, NY
AWARDS
2014 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Artists' Fellowship, Digital Art.
BIO
Shamus Clisset (aka FakeShamus) is a digital artist based in Brooklyn, NY.
Working with 3D modeling, rendering, animation, and game-development software for over 15 years, and recently incorporating custom AI workflows and other new tools, his work reflexively critiques notions of progress, identity and the future. His absurd, self-conscious sense of humor combines with a painter's approach to composition and scale, resulting in epically irreverent, high-resolution digital images.
FakeShamus’s world occupies a post-meaning void of memes, the alternate realities of video games and online identity, our fading sense of history, and a bleak future. But it’s fun!
CV
Born in Huntington, NY.
Lives and works in Brooklyn and NYC
EDUCATION
1998
BFA, The College of Santa Fe, NM
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
"Alpha AF", Postmasters Gallery, NY
2017
"Mr. Realistic", UMKC Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MO
2015
"Lost Raver / Empty Future", SLC, Bronxville, NY
2014
"Space God / Magic Guy", Postmasters Gallery, NY
2013
“Shamus Clisset”, Storefront Ten Eyck, Brooklyn
2012
“Empties”, Caesura Gallery (caesura.cc)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
“ASMR”, Curated by David Gryn, Daata, NY
2022
"Portrait Show", Ravestijn Gallery, Amsterdam
“Ed von Schlecks Grill-Lustbarkeit”, Auge & Welt, Aachen
“Patriot”, O’Flaherty’s, NY
2021
"Metaglyphs", curated by Katie Peyton, link
“Pieces of Me”, Transfer Gallery / Left.gallery, link
2019
“Too Beautiful to be Real” @ The Wrong Bienniale, link
2018
"Terms and Conditions May Apply", Annka Kultys Gallery, London
"Alter Ego", SCAD Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, GA
2017
"Parallel Reality" (with Frank Wang), Wallace Gallery, SUNY Old Westbury, NY
"Digital Profiling", NY Media Center, Brooklyn
"CON-FIGURATION", Postmasters Gallery, NY
2016
"the real-fake.org.02", Bronx Art Space
"Decensortized: A Safe Space" Westbeth Gallery, NY
“Dance with flARmingos”, Queens Museum, NY
"Nargifsus", Transfer Gallery, Brooklyn
"Blue Sky Thinking", curated by GRIN, Spring/Break Art Show, NY
2015
"Portrait in the 21st Century" (with Austin Lee), Untitled Miami, FL
"Feral City", Undercurrent Projects, NY
“Dance with flARmingos”, Gallery Protocol, Gainesville, FL
"WOANDER", GRIN Gallery, Providence, RI
"Pop Stars! Popular Culture and Contemporary Art", 21C Museum, Durham
2014
"Portrait in the Twenty-First Century", Postmasters Gallery, NY
"We Know What We Like", curated by Hrag Vartanian, Lori Bookstein Fine Arts, NY
“Gundam Pizza Party Space Jam (Featuring R Kelly)”, cloaque.org
2013
"Para-Real", 601 Artspace, NY
"Das beste Mittel gegen alles Identische? Identität. Galerie Thomas Flor, Berlin
“No Name”, On Stellar Rays, NY
“Shoot”, Lesley Heller Workspace, NY
AWARDS
2014
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Artists' Fellowship, Digital Art.