Education     
2009                Masters of Fine Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

2006                Bachelor of Fine Arts, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC

Selected Awards      

2019                   Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travel Grant  - to promote "Alice At Naptime" at the Toronto Comics Arts Festival (TCAF)  

 2013                  "Disabled and Dangerous," a Stokeshow  film, won The ALS Canada's Tony Proudfoot Exceptional Public   Awareness Award in Media

2008                   The B.C. Binning Drawing Scholarship,  UBC. ($18 000)

 Publications 

2019                    Alice At Naptime. (April. 2019). Renegade Arts Entertainment.

2019 “So Light She Floats” Fantastic Realms: The 2019 Calgary Expo Artbook. (April 2019). Calgary Expo.

2018                   "The Ark Heen." Futility: Orange Planet Horror. (2018) Created by Rick Overwater and Cam Hayden. Published by Coffin Hop Press. Alternate Cover Gallery Art. Page 55.

2018                     "Artificial Pollinators" Adventures in Time: The 2018 Calgary Expo Artbook. (April 2018). Calgary Expo.

2017                     NAKED YOGA: and another thing. (November 2017). Hillgrove Books.  

 2017                  "Is This Allowed? Having Babies and Making Art." Birthing  (Spring 2017). Published by Birth Unlimited. Edited by Nicole Bross. Pages 44 and 45. 

2017                   "Lucy Walks Through" Fairy Tales and classic Monsters: The 2017 Calgary Expo Artbook. (April 2017). Calgary Expo.

2016                    ABC Monstrosity (April. 2016) Hillgrove Books.

2015                    Alice In The Womb: A Colouring Book (Oct. 2015). Hillgrove Books.

2009                   "Is Blake Your Nemesis," "That Little One," and "Wreak." (art), One Cool Word. (Summer, 2009) Edited by Emily Wight. Cover and pages 2, 14, 15, 22 and 44.  

2005 Art Pages, Woo Magazine. (Feb. 2005.) Edited by Julianne Claire. Pages 10 and 11.

Professional Experience

2019                     Live drawing performance at the Masonic Temple for the Toronto Comic Arts welcome party, Toronto, ON

2018-present            Vice-president on the Panel One board of directors, a non-profit festival and community-building organization for Canadian comic-book creators.

2013-present            Storyboards for Stokeshow Productions, Vancouver BC

2017                     Album art for Serious Clouds           

2015-2018         Convention spots showcasing Hillgrove Books; including Market Spot, Market Collective, Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo, The Baby and Tot Show, Panel One, and Lilac Fest, Calgary AB

2016                     Appointed to the City of Calgary Painted City Artist Roster

2014                     Cover and ad design for Text Me, Love Mom, by Candace Allan, published by Iguana Books

2015                     Created Hillgrove Books, Calgary AB

2007-2011         Designs for Inkspoon, a silkscreened clothing syndicate, Saltspring, BC

2006                     Mural for The L-Word, a Showcase television drama, Vancouver, BC

2002-2004       Swimming Instructor at the Talisman Centre and Stanley Park, Calgary, AB

Teaching

2019                     Presentations for grades K-2 and 7-9 at High Level Public School - (per diem and travel covered by the Alberta Government), High Level, AB

2015 - present          Weekly comicbook workshop at braeside Second Cup, Calgary, AB

2018                     Comics theory and practice St Bonaventure, Calgary, A.

2017                     Corporate colouring-workshop for Calgary Family Day Homes, Calgary, AB

2017                     Host of Geek Girls Night Out at Red Scull Comics, Calgary, AB

2016                     Lecture on interdisciplinary work The Renert Centre, Calgary, AB

2015                     Adult-colouring workshop at Vin Gogh, Calgary, AB

2015                     Art-talk at Shelf Life Books, Calgary, AB

2015                     Author visit for the Learning-Tree Preschool, Calgary, AB

2009                     Science and art cross-over field-trip, co-developed with John Mee, UBC, Vancouver, BC

2007-2008         Teaching Assistant at The University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, BC

Exhibition History

2010                     New Forms Festival and CODE Live. : The Great Northern Way Campus, Vancouver, BC

2009                     The Dead 2. SWARM 2009. Great Northern Way Studios, Vancouver, BC  

2009                     Interrobang. MFA graduation exhibition, The Morris and Helen Belkin, Vancouver, BC

2009                    East Van Throw Down, The Anza Club, Vancouver, BC

2008                    Being There and Elsewhere, OrganHaus art space, Chongqing, China

2008                    Apocalepsy, The Fall Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2008                    The Blackwater Project. The Blackwater Café, Vancouver, BC

2007                     Imagineus. The AMS gallery in the Student Union Building, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

2006                   Peripheral Vision. The Libra Room, Vancouver, BC

2006                   Undergraduate Exhibition, Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC

2005                     Big Pictures. Concourse Gallery, Vancouver, BC                       

2005                     Obsessions, Repetitions and Materiality. Concourse Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2004                     Accumulative Effects. Concourse Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2003                     Foundation Exhibition, Concourse Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Broadcasts    

2002                Created and performed a series of radio broadcasts on CBCfor Richardson’s Roundup, Vancouver, BC

 

Selected Commissions          

 2007-present    Digital designs for Inkspoon, a silkscreen print syndicate which creates one of a kind clothing.

2006                 Mural for The L-Word, a Showcase television drama

 

Website         

2006             www.sheaproulx.com

 

Associated Organisations

 http://panelone.ca/creator-profile-shea-proulx/

www.weshotthemessenger.com

 

Twitter           @SheaProulx

 Instagram @sheaproulx

https://www.facebook.com/sheaproulxartbooks/

References

Alexander Finbow, Renegade Arts Entertainment,

alexander@renegademail.com

403-688-1089

Joey Gruzecki, Panel One  Comic Creator Society, President of the Board

joeygruszecki@gmail.com

587-888-0308

Marina Roy, The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory

ahva.dept@ubc.ca

604-822-2757