Shannon Wright is a sculptor and installation artist based in San José, California. Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Wright grew up primarily in Sydney, Australia before returning to the US and earning her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Wright is the recipient of two Illinois Arts Council fellowships, a Silicon Valley Laureate Award, and numerous California State University Research Grants. She has exhibited at NADA Curated, Untitled Miami Beach, Dallas Art Fair, Scope Miami, New York, and London, ADA Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, and Mulherin + Pollard Gallery, NYC. Wright is a Full Professor of Spatial Art at San Jose State University in San Jose, CA and a four-year Artist in Residence at Cubberley Artist Studio Program in Palo Alto, California.
To see process pictures of artwork, go to http://shannongwright.blogspot.com
Photo by Palo Alto Camera Club photographer, Feng Shi, 2026.