Archive
Exhibitions, collections and press. Held in the permanent collections of the Plains Art Museum and the Rockford Art Museum, and shown at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum, the Rockford Art Museum and the Eiteljorg Museum.
Exhibitions
Public Collections
Recognition
Selected Press
Music
Biography
Shelly Mosman was born in 1972 and lives in Minneapolis. She took a BFA in Drawing and Painting from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1995, studying with Rik Sferra, and came to photography from painting rather than the other way round.
She works from Studio 121 in the Casket Arts Building in Northeast Minneapolis, where each portrait is built as a constructed tableau: a single sitter, vintage clothing, a hand painted or tapestry backdrop, controlled light, and often a live animal belonging to the person in the frame. Her subjects rarely smile. The result is closer to a nineteenth century portrait than a contemporary photograph.
