Shawn Lawson - Faculty and Staff

Shawn Lawson is a visual artist & media programmer exploring the edges
of perceptual and experiential consciousness. He works with concepts
that manifest just on the fringes of what appears perceivable or believable.

His artworks have exhibited at Milwaukee Art Museum, Chelsea Art Museum,
Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, Koltsovo International Airport, Albany
Institute of History and Art, Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, Art
Interactive Gallery, Art Chicago, ACM Siggraph, IEEE Procams, ACM
Multimedia, Immedia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Ohio
State University, Arizona State University, Carnegie Mellon University,
and more. Lawson's artwork has toured to Russia, Portugal, Brazil,
Turkey, and Malaysia. Lawson's collaborative, Crudeoils, is represented
by Dean Jensen Gallery and Flatfile Galleries. His artwork has been
funded by the Electronic Media and Film Program at the New York State
Council on the Arts and the Experimental Television Center's Finishing
Funds Program.

Lawson studied fine arts at Carnegie Mellon University and École
Nationale Supèrieure des Beaux-Arts. He received his MFA in Art and
Technology Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in
2003. Before becoming an Assistant Professor of Computer Visualization
at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2004, he was a Visiting Assistant
Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, an Artist in Residence in the
virtual reality research group Stage3 at Carnegie Mellon University, and
an intern at Walt Disney Imagineering with the DisneyQuest project