SHANNON SOLDNER
Shannon investigates the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, the mythology of self we construct, revise, and hide behind as we move through the world. Working in oil, she maps the tension between what we remember and what we allow ourselves to know, between what we choose to reveal and what we keep carefully concealed.
Her paintings mirror memory's own logic: certain passages rendered with precision, others left deliberately unresolved. Figures emerge from and dissolve into negative space, neither fully present nor fully absent, suspended in the same uncertainty that defines how we understand ourselves. Color shifts between restraint and dreamlike drift, humor surfaces where weight threatens to overwhelm, and gold leaf reflects the world's gaze back at itself.
What remains is not narrative but opening. A place where perception, memory, and the mythology of self stay in motion, and where viewers might find themselves unexpectedly implicated in the same acts of editing, concealment, and revision that the work examines.
Shannon Soldner is based in Rocheport, Missouri. Born in Colorado in 1976, she earned her BFA with honors in Studio Art from the University of Missouri–Columbia and works from The Wandering Muse Studio.
Her paintings are held in the Kasper Collection of Contemporary Biblical Art, and her work appears in two published collections, including the Kasper Collection coffee table book, for which she created the cover artwork, and The Great Book of Art Makers by Arts to Hearts Project. She has presented solo exhibitions at the Sydney Larson Gallery, Columbia Art League, and ACA Gallery, and has exhibited nationally at Target Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia, and Art Saint Louis.
She has served as Co-President of the Columbia Art League and maintains an active teaching practice.