EDUCATION

• Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado, MAT 2011

• Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, BBM 2005

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

• Pioneer's Museum "50% of the Story" on permanent display

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PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

• Palm Desert, CA

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

• Arcus, Auric Gallery, Colorado Springs, Colorado, July

 

2023

• Windows, G44 Gallery, Colorado Springs, Colorado

 

2022

• Transitions, Kreuser Gallery, Colorado Springs, Colorado

 

2021

• Equilibrium, G44 Gallery, Colorado Springs, Colorado

 

2020

• Temperament of Nature, Lincoln Rose Gallery, Colorado Springs, Colorado

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GROUP JURIED EXHIBITIONS

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2025

• Auric Gallery Satellite Location, My Cellar Wine Bar, Colorado Springs, CO, February-April

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2024

• Colorado Springs Pioneers’ Museum Permanent Collection of Women Artists

• Gratitude, Auric Gallery, Colorado Springs, Colorado

• This Curious World with Meghan Wilbar, Studio West Gallery, Colorado Springs, Colorado

• Apis Opus, NKollectiv, Denver, Colorado

• Wax 4 Ways, The Bridge Gallery, Colorado Springs, Colorado

• Art On the Green, Denver, Colorado

• Summerfest, Evergreen, Colorado

• Cooperative Representation, True North Art Gallery, Colorado Springs, Colorado

 

2023

• Atmosphere, D’Art Gallery, Denver, Colorado

• Cooperative Representation, True North Art Gallery, Colorado Springs, Colorado

• Art On the Green, Denver, Colorado

• Apis Opus, NKollectiv, Denver, Colorado

• Gratitude Exhibition, Kreuser Gallery, Colorado Springs, Colorado

• Dreamscape Exhibition, The Crowd Collective, Boulder, Colorado

• Holiday Exhibition, G44 Gallery, Colorado Springs, Colorado

• Per Annum Exhibition, Surface Gallery, Colorado Springs, Colorado

• Reunion Exhibition, The LookUp Gallery, Colorado Springs, Colorado

 

2022

• Per Annum Exhibition, Surface Gallery, Colorado Springs, Colorado

• West By Midwest, Shannon Mello, Meghan Wilbar, Mark Zimmerman, BitFactory Gallery, Denver, Colorado

• The Overstory, The LookUp Gallery, Colorado Springs, Colorado

• Life of Trees Exhibition, BRDG Project, Denver, Colorado

 

2021

• New Beginnings Exhibition, R Gallery, Boulder, Colorado

• Gratitude Exhibition, Kreuser Gallery, Colorado Springs, Colorado

• Motion & Flow Exhibition, R Gallery, Boulder, Colorado

• WAX Encaustic Exhibit, Kreuser Gallery, Colorado Springs, Colorado

• Winter Graces, Shannon Mello, Marisa W. Sparks, Kreuser Gallery, Colorado Springs,     Colorado

• -Holiday Exhibition, G44 Gallery, Colorado Springs, Colorado

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2020

• Gratitude Exhibition, Kreuser Gallery, Colorado Springs, Colorado

• WAX Encaustic Exhibit, Kreuser Gallery, Colorado Springs, Colorado

• Holiday Exhibition, G44 Gallery, Colorado Springs, Colorado

 

2019

• Solace Women of the Trees, Kreuser Gallery, Colorado Springs, Colorado

RECOGNITION

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• Unanimously juried into the Santa Fe Gallery Association's 2025 Artist Catalog

• Southwest Art Magazine June/July 2024 issue
  https://www.southwestart.com/featured/art-road-trip-co-june2024

• Colorado Springs Gazette’s “Best of  Artists 2024” Silver Award

• Springs Lifestyle Magazine feature February 2023  
  https://citylifestyle.com/coloradosprings/issues/2023-02

• Tenet Podcast Interview
  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-111-shannon-mello-encaustic-cold-wax-oil-watercolor/id1488280246?i=1000546555641

• Voyage Denver Magazine’s Colorado Feature
  https://shoutoutcolorado.com/meet-shannon-mello-mixed-media-artist/

• Art Dose Magazine Feature for February 2022

• Colorado Springs Gazette’s “Best of Artists 2022” Bronze Award

• Partnered with One Tree Planted 2021

• Colorado Springs Independent’s “Best of Artists 2021” bronze medal award

• Colorado Springs Independent’s “Best of Artists 2020” silver medal award