Curriculum Vitae
Current Memberships 2024
2024 Associate Member Oil Painters of America
2024 Member Fremont Center for the Arts
2024 Life Member Pueblo Art Guild
Education
2015 Bachelors of Fine Arts, Studio Art, (Cum Laude) Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction Colorado
Solo Exhibitions/Awards / Distinctions
2024 August 13-21 Arkansas Valley Fair, Fine Arts Exhibition "You Become" won Champion and Grand Champion, "Through a Buffalo's Eye" won Reserve Grand Champion
2024 July 5 - July 26th Solo Exhibition "Time" Pueblo Heritage Center Pueblo, Colorado
2024 April 5-May 25 Solo Exhibition. Envisage Naturae II, Pueblo, Co. Sangre De Cristo Arts and Conference Center.
2023 Past president LaJunta, Colorado Fine Art League
2023 Commission Montrose Veterans Memorial Plaza (rendering) Montrose, Co.
2022 "Envisage Naturae" Solo exhibition of 10 works displayed from August 5th to the 26th, 2022, at the Art Center of Western Colorado, Grand Junction. Reception August 5th 6:30pm
2021 Fremont Center for the Arts. Canon City Co. Show: "Explore Local Color". 2nd place "You Become" 48" x 48" OC
2021 Colorado State Fair, Fine Arts Exhibition. Peoples Choice Award in all divisions. "Lost and Found" 60" x 48" OC
2021 Colorado State Fair, Fine Arts Exhibition. Pueblo art Guild Award of excellence "Lost and Found" 60" x 48 " OC
2021 Colorado State Fair, Fine Arts Exhibition. Professional artist division (Painting) First place "Secludere. 48" x 36" OC
2021 "A midsummer nights dream" Exhibition at the Fremont Center for the Arts Canyon City CO. "Perception of Fragility" 31" x 50" ,
and "Prolio" 36" x 48" second place ribbon and sold
2021 "Blossom Festival" Exhibition at the Fremont Center for the Arts Canon City, Colorado. "Rufous" 36" x 48" Sold
2021 "Birds of a Feather" Exhibition at the Fremont Center, Canyon City, Colorado.
"Secludere" 48" x 36"" Oil on Canvas 1st place
2020 Vice President of the Pueblo Art Guild. Santa Fe, Ave. Pueblo Colorado
2020 Autumn Show Pueblo Art Guild, Best of show Pueblo art Guild Juried Show “Lost and Found” Oil on Canvas
2020 Autumn Show Pueblo Art Guild 1st place oil painting Title “Prolio” Oil on Canvas
2020 3rd Place “Portrait, Man, and Beast” Pueblo Art Guild Juried Show “Victus” Oil on Board
2020 3rd Place Southwest show” Pueblo art guild juried show “The Old Ways” watercolor
2019 First Place award winner “Crash” 36” x 48” OC. National Juried Show “Found” 437CO Gallery Grand Junction, Co.
2018 Special Merit Light Space & Time Gallery Nature show “Creation of Animals” Oil on Canvas 48” x 36”
2015 Honorable Mention, “Arranged Realities” 2015 with national Juried Show Juror Gregory Botts Grand Junction Art Center
2014 Presidents, and Deans list, Colorado Mesa University
2014 Suzi Boyd Art Scholarship, Colorado Mesa University
2013 Presidents, and Deans list, Colorado Mesa University.
2013 CMU Talent Grant
2013 Suzi Boyd Art Scholarship
2013 Honorary Selection 37th Annual Colorado Mesa University Juried Student Art Show, ASG, 48" x 24" Oil on Canvas, Titled "No Swimming"
1981 Navy's Combat Art Program, Watercolor entitled "Pride and Tradition” Became a permanent addition to the U.S Navy Combat Art Collection Housed in Washington D.C.
1980 Best of Show. Sangre de Cristo Art Center, Beta Sigma Phi "Lightning Elk" Pueblo
Group Exhibitions
2024 Colorado State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition August 22-September 02, 2024 "Tempus" OC, "Uncertain Rendezvous" Virtus IIOC, "Into the Unknown" OC Pueblo, Colorado
2024 Arkansas Valley Fair Fine Arts exhibition "You Become" OC, "Through a Buffalo's Eye" August 13- 18, 2024 Rocky Ford, CO.
2024 Oil Painters of America Summer 2024 Online Exhibition International: Tempus" OC and "Uncertain Rendezvous" OC
2021 Fremont Center for the Arts. Canon City Co. Show: "Explore Local Color". 2nd place "You Become" 48" x 48" OC
2021 Colorado State Fair, Fine Arts Exhibition. Peoples Choice Award in all divisions. "Lost and Found" 60" x 48" OC
2021 Colorado State Fair, Fine Arts Exhibition. Pueblo Art Guild Award of excellence "Lost and Found" 60" x 48 " OC
2021 Colorado State Fair, Fine Arts Exhibition. Professional artist division (Painting) First place "Secludure. 48" x 36" OC
2021 "A midsummer night dream" Exhibition at the Fremont Center for the Arts Canyon City CO. "Perception of Fragility" 31" x 50",
and "Prolio" 36" x 48" second place ribbon and sold
2021 "Blossom Festival" Exhibition at the Fremont Center for the Arts Canon City, Colorado. "Rufous" 36" x 48" Sold
2021 "Birds of a Feather" Exhibition at the Fremont Center, Canyon City, Colorado.
"Secludure" 48" x 36"" Oil on Canvas 1st place
2020 Vice President of the Pueblo Art Guild. Santa Fe, Ave. Pueblo Colorado
2020 Autumn Show Pueblo Art Guild, Best of show Pueblo Art Guild Juried Show “Lost and Found” Oil on Canvas
2020 Autumn Show Pueblo Art Guild 1st place oil painting Title “Prolio” Oil on Canvas
2020 3rd Place “Portrait, Man, and Beast” Pueblo Art Guild Juried Show “Victus” Oil on Board
2020 3rd Place Southwest show” Pueblo Art Guild juried show “The Old Ways” watercolor
2019 First Place award winner “Crash” 36” x 48” OC. National Juried Show “Found” 437CO Gallery Grand Junction, Co.
2018 Special Merit Light Space & Time Gallery Nature show “Creation of Animals” Oil on Canvas 48” x 36”
2015 Honorable Mention, “Arranged Realities” 2015 with national Juried Show Juror Gregory Botts Grand Junction Art Center
2014 Presidents and Deans list, Colorado Mesa University
2014 Suzi Boyd Art Scholarship, Colorado Mesa University
2013 Presidents and Deans list, Colorado Mesa University.
2013 CMU Talent Grant
2013 Suzi Boyd Art Scholarship
2013 Honorary Selection 37th Annual Colorado Mesa University Juried Student Art Show, ASG, 48" x 24" Oil on Canvas, Titled "No Swimming"
1981 Navy's Combat Art Program, Watercolor entitled "Pride and Tradition” Became a permanent addition to the U.S Navy Comb
Publications
2019-2020 Salaan Art Magazine 2nd edition
2018 "Our ever-changing world: Through the eyes of the artists: Artists, ART, & Story: A moment in time 2018 (international) book 10
2014 Inside CMU
2010 Children's Book Written and Illustrated "Maxwell and the Silly Sea Things" Paperback: 32 pages Publisher: Laredo Publishing (March 3, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 156492369X, ISBN-13: 978-1564923691
2011 Olathe Messenger Newspaper Local Artist Kirk Shiflett Published “Maxwell and the Silly Sea Things
2005 Montrose Style Magazine Spring Summer edition article written by Ben Williams “Kirk Shiflett’s “Continuous Brush with Beauty
1976 First published in Pueblo Chieftain and Star Journal Mural’s done in the city of Pueblo at age 16.