http://www.shannonsoldner.com/pagecv daily 0.75 2026-03-06 http://www.shannonsoldner.com/new-page daily 0.75 2026-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d2c52fd482e9cd4b0e4895/1b678965-ca08-41e4-8fee-003882b7c336/09794669-47AB-4515-BF16-D6CE2FD42718_1_201_a.jpeg About A figurative painter, Shannon imagines the stories people tell themselves, the personal mythologies created to make sense of the world. Her work seeks to give a glimpse into the fictitious inner worlds of her subjects. Through her narrative paintings, she asks the viewer not only to explore these myths and fables but also to question their own. Shannon, a native of Colorado, was born in 1976. She received her BFA with honors at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2015 with an emphasis in Studio Art. She lives and works in Columbia, Missouri. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d2c52fd482e9cd4b0e4895/1b678965-ca08-41e4-8fee-003882b7c336/09794669-47AB-4515-BF16-D6CE2FD42718_1_201_a.jpeg About 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. http://www.shannonsoldner.com/contact daily 0.75 2026-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d2c52fd482e9cd4b0e4895/184732c2-f2bb-4f0d-885a-bafa3f16c0e3/IMG_1375.jpeg Contact For inquiries about available artwork, commissions, workshops, or collaborations, please reach out below. I typically respond within 2–3 business days http://www.shannonsoldner.com/new-cover-page daily 1.0 2024-12-08 http://www.shannonsoldner.com/the-wandering-muse daily 0.75 2026-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d2c52fd482e9cd4b0e4895/520a65a4-fc46-47e5-b653-fe4669603fa7/The+Wandering+Muse+logo+%281200+x+1200+px%29-2.png http://www.shannonsoldner.com/store daily 0.75 2024-12-08 http://www.shannonsoldner.com/portfolio daily 0.75 2026-03-06 http://www.shannonsoldner.com/portfolio/project-four-yjynj-9wwkz monthly 0.5 2026-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d2c52fd482e9cd4b0e4895/31074d70-b215-4293-81c2-ff78ef2be042/Lost_In_Translation.jpeg Portfolio - Somewhere In The Middle Lost in Translation Oil on canvas 36x36in 2024 Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d2c52fd482e9cd4b0e4895/73d279a1-384d-431f-a6bc-98cfd9ae01dd/Holier_Now_That_Its_Over.jpeg Portfolio - Somewhere In The Middle Holier Now That It’s Over Oil on canvas 12x16in 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d2c52fd482e9cd4b0e4895/1ec78d1a-4b52-4628-91aa-b19aadd6f739/I%27ll_Know_It_When_I_See_It.png Portfolio - Somewhere In The Middle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d2c52fd482e9cd4b0e4895/2937d4db-847b-4277-8238-3a0f41fff112/Wait_What%3F.jpeg Portfolio - Somewhere In The Middle Wait What? 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Necessary Fictions The Minnows Knew oil on canvas 42in x 54in 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d2c52fd482e9cd4b0e4895/e5903630-62ed-4580-b954-981156cefa37/68584401941__1D60088B-9878-47D1-A0B3-5220F68687D0.jpeg Portfolio - Necessary Fictions Metamorphosis oil on canvas 40in x 30in 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d2c52fd482e9cd4b0e4895/7b64d950-7699-4e57-ac13-ca3d040e668c/Shannon_SoldnerAnotherLostBoy.jpg Portfolio - Necessary Fictions Another Lost Boy oil on canvas 54in x 42in 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d2c52fd482e9cd4b0e4895/11514f0a-a64e-4227-a9f0-9192bb88a044/Patience.jpg Portfolio - Necessary Fictions Ethylene Dream oil on canvas 46in x 36in 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d2c52fd482e9cd4b0e4895/789f3bec-74a0-424c-9e7f-8d83922e3556/ShannonSoldnerDownTheRabbitHole.jpg Portfolio - Necessary Fictions Down The Rabbit Hole oil on canvas 36in x 36in 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d2c52fd482e9cd4b0e4895/cfc10152-987b-4c1c-943b-9f905bf1b3c2/ShannonSoldner_A+Ritual+Goodbye.jpg Portfolio - Necessary Fictions A Ritual GoodBye oil on canvas 30in x 40in 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d2c52fd482e9cd4b0e4895/79f08d8c-b0d3-4e77-9c70-16911f64c7af/Shannon_SoldnerInDreamsIFly.jpg Portfolio - Necessary Fictions Freefall oil on canvas 40in x 30in 2022 http://www.shannonsoldner.com/portfolio/earlyfigurativeworks monthly 0.5 2026-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d2c52fd482e9cd4b0e4895/1643145188974-L8DTH76QZNOK4ARDTH4L/MadeFeralForNothing.jpg Portfolio - Early Figurative Works Made Feral For Nothing oil on canvas 30in x 40in 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d2c52fd482e9cd4b0e4895/1592243437040-TB0PZPJO9MGED0B1N4EA/BecomingaRumor-oiloncanvas-30inx40in-2018.jpg Portfolio - Early Figurative Works Becoming A Rumor oil on canvas 30in x 40in 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d2c52fd482e9cd4b0e4895/1520184882274-SFLRZ33RMXP0UIN8CR85/Ananke.jpg Portfolio - Early Figurative Works Fate oil on canvas 54in x 42in 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d2c52fd482e9cd4b0e4895/1482336980176-UFRY661B8NT819RY14LO/FullSizeRender.jpg Portfolio - Early Figurative Works Vagabond oil on canvas 17in x 13in 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d2c52fd482e9cd4b0e4895/1482336763439-TCEXCL4TEOK8CSW2A3CK/fullsizeoutput_12ec.jpeg Portfolio - Early Figurative Works Untitled oil on canvas 13in x 17in 2019 Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d2c52fd482e9cd4b0e4895/1482337138179-KQD4IF492MX497S0Y09L/IMG_0017.JPG Portfolio - Early Figurative Works A Pale Illusion oil on canvas 30in x 40in 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d2c52fd482e9cd4b0e4895/1482336511731-N6GI4KGJHIIMGK3LYC0P/IMG_4423.jpg Portfolio - Early Figurative Works Low Tide On A Wine Dark Sea oil on canvas 24in x 36in 2018 Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d2c52fd482e9cd4b0e4895/1482336389177-QA3VS27YB5DNKUDPP3XA/Icarus.jpg Portfolio - Early Figurative Works Icarus oil and gold leaf on on panel 24in x 48in 2015 Private Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d2c52fd482e9cd4b0e4895/1482336167518-G7AUDR0LJC339NOQJKG5/DomusDeadali72.jpg Portfolio - 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