Shelley Zentner
Current: Professional Artist
Business Partner: LuxVerity
Member: Reno Fine Arts Collective
2006 – 2019 Adjunct Faculty, Lake Tahoe Community College
Subjects: Portraiture, Art History, Oil Painting, Drawing from Observation, Figure Drawing, Portfolio Development.
2016 – 2019 Founding Member, Tahoe Activist Artists
2000 – 2005 Owner of the Shelley Hocknell Gallery, UK
Solo Exhibitions
2022
Haldan Gallery, Lake Tahoe Community College, CA. Call & Response: Visions of the forest after Wildfire.
Sierra Arts Foundation, Reno, NV. Call & Response: Visions of the forest after Wildfire.
2019
Tahoe Yoga Shala, South Lake Tahoe, CA. Art of Ashtanga
2018
Foyer Gallery, Lake Tahoe Community College, South Lake Tahoe, CA. Fundamental Freedoms
2016
California Burger, South Lake Tahoe, CA
Divided Sky, South Lake Tahoe, CA
2011
Bona Fide Books, Meyers CA. Written on the Body
2008
The Dragonfly, Truckee, CA. New Life: Kokanee
The Foyer Gallery, Lake Tahoe Community College, South Lake Tahoe, CA. New Life: Kokanee
Trio, Truckee, CA. New Terrain: Wineries & Landscapes of the Sierra Nevada
2007
The Dorion Gallery, Sacramento, CA. New Life: Kokanee
The Riverside Gallery, Truckee, CA. New Life
2002
Llanberis Mountain Film Festival, UK (2002, 2003, 2004) Featured Artist
2000
Brewery Arts Center, Kendal UK (in conjunction with Kendal Mountain Film Festival) The Colour of Fear
Establishment of The Shelley Hocknell Gallery, Betws y Coed, UK
1999
Penrhyn Castle, Bangor, UK. Climbing the Walls Touring Exhibition
Oriel Plas Glyn y Weddw, UK. Climbing the Walls Touring Exhibition
Ogilvy & Estill Gallery, Conwy UK. Climbing the Walls Touring Exhibition
1997
Limited Editions Gallery, Bristol, UK. Intimate Illusions
1996
The Boston Tea Party, Bristol, UK. Recent work from the Basque Country
1995
The Bristol Guild of Applied Art, UK. Leap of Faith
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2022
Cosumnes River College Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA. Wild Gods: California’s Nature in the time of Climate Change
Reno International Art Show, Reno Sparks Convention Center, NV.
2021
Reno Fine Arts Collective, Reno, NV. Featured Artist
2020-2021
Emanate Gallery, South Lake Tahoe, CA
2020
GaiaLicious, South Lake Tahoe, CA
2017
High Vibe Society, South Lake Tahoe, CA Tahoe Activist Artists: Rising from the Fire
Tahoe Mountain Lab, South Lake Tahoe, CA Tahoe Activist Artists: We the People
Haldan Gallery, Lake Tahoe Community College, South Lake Tahoe, CA Faculty Show, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018
2016
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno NV, Doors to Recovery
2010
MAIYA Gallery, Sacramento, CA
New Visions Gallery, WI Culture + Agriculture
2009
The Rooms Gallery, South Wales, UK
Rogers Jones Auction House, The Welsh Fine Art Sale
2008
The Marji Gallery, Santa Fe
The Village Art Gallery, Lake Tahoe, Women in Art
Rogers Jones Auction House, Welsh Fine Art Sale
2007
Sierra Arts, Reno The Fall Art Show
Royal Cambrian Academy, UK Young Wales 1998 / 2000 / 2001
1999
The Wales Drawing Bienalle Touring Exhibition, Wrexham Arts Center
2000
Museum of Modern Art for Wales, Machynlleth, UK Showcase Wales
The Albany Gallery, Cardiff, UK New Welsh Artists Show.
Selected Commissions
The Metastasis, 12 foot mural, Robert Smith’s private residence 2017 – 2020
Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Training Manual 74 figure drawings illustrating every pose in the Primary Series. Laura Josephy, Tahoe Yoga Shala 2017-8
Pollinator Mural, Sierra House Elementary 2015
Get out of my Crotch! 21 Writers respond to America’s War on Women’s Reproductive Rights, Cover art, 2013
Selected Interviews, Reviews & Publications
Kolo8 Abc News, Art from the Ashes 2022
KCRA 3 News, Caldor Fire Art 2022
Tahoe Magazine, Summer Call & Response 2022
Tahoe Weekly, Art from the Ashes 2022
Climbing Magazine, UK High Lines 2018
Illustrators Journal, Winter Edition 2018
BlogTalk Radio, Winter 2017
Alpinist Magazine, USA 2011 Issues 33 and a full colour spread in issue 34. Click here to read
Edge Volume 4, Tahoe Writers Works 2010
KUNR Radio, Artist in Residence 2008
Moonshine Ink, Truckee, CA. Featured Artist. 2008
Summit Magazine (British Mountaineering Council) UK The Art of Climbing 2007
Tahoe Quarterly, Art Notes 2007, Best of 2010 Art Notes, Tahoe Masters
High Art: Award Winning Film Documentary. Fridge Productions 2005
HTV News (Wales, UK) Moving on Upwards 2002
Climber Magazine, UK 2001
BBC News Artist of the Rockfaces 2000
On the Edge Magazine Art imitates life 2000
Y Sioe Gelf (The Art Show) HTV Wales 1999
Grants, Awards & Sponsorship
YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Lake Tahoe Community College, Professional Development Grants
Arts & Business New Partners, Wales
Welsh Development Agency
The Royal Oak Hotel, Betws Y Coed
Celtec
Tahoe Arts Alliance – Artist Innovator Award 2019
Education
Classical Portrait Atelier with Juliette Aristedes, Scottsdale Artists School, AZ 2018
Classical Portrait Atelier with Steven Assael, Bay Area Classical Atelier, CA 2017
Still Life Workshop with Carol Marine, Santa Fe 2007
Art & Visual Culture (B.A) Hons, University of the West of England, UK 1997
Foundation in Art, with Peter Prendergast. Colleg Menai, North Wales UK 1994