Shannon Brinkley

Thank you for joining me here!

As an interdisciplinary artist, I draw upon a background in painting, printmaking, and papermaking to inform my work with video projections, fiber art, drawing, and installation. Through these varied forms, I examine the relation of the body and the self to society, motion, space, and time. As an American-South African artist, places shape the ways I’ve worked and continually inform my content. I have lived and worked in the American Mid-Atlantic, Southeast & Midwest, Egypt, and South Africa. The former East-German city of Leipzig is where I call home, today.

Alongside my art practice, I am an art curriculum specialist and have a long career teaching art at secondary schools and the university level. Currently, I have the honor of teaching graduate students as Adjunct Faculty at the Art of Education University as well as secondary students at Leipzig International School.

My work can be viewed in private and public collections in Belgium, the UK, the Netherlands, South Africa, Egypt, Germany, and the USA. 

I am happy to discuss my work with you further and welcome your comments and feedback. Please write to me here.

Image Credits:

All images on this site were produced by the artist, Shannon Brinkley, except:

• Betty Pietak photographed most of the work seen in "Investigations" and "(R)evolve"

• Lauri Hafvestein contributed her documentation of “Undo (Part II)”

• Julius Wilm captured the portrait, above