Shane Charles received his Master of Fine Arts degree from UNC at Chapel Hill, where he focused on sculpture and performance. Previously he studied painting at the University of Maine through the indigenous Wabanaki program.
He has received significant support through commissions, collections, or solo exhibitions by many museums and Fine Art institutions, including NARS Foundation, NYC (2022); Space Gallery, Portland, ME, with funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation (2022); the Goethe-Institut Boston (2021); the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (2020); the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (2019); Wassaic Project (2019); I-Park Foundation (2019); the School of Visual Arts, NYC (2018); the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA&D (2015); and the Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC (2015), among others.
