Juniper Shuey

co-artistic director and designer

Born in California, Juniper Shuey is a visual artist based in Seattle, WA, since 1997. Juniper went to Emerson College in Boston, studying set and lighting design for three years. He then transferred to Ceramics at the University of Washington, where the faculty allowed him to develop his art in performance and clay. His work developed into using video projection into space as a sculptural element. Juniper’s work has been published in several art books, including SOIL Artist, Lava, and Fashion is ART. His video installations, photographs, and performances have been shown both nationally and internationally, including in Italy, Budapest, NYC, Houston, Seattle, Portland, and Christchurch, New Zealand. Juniper has participated on several professional art panels, including the New England Foundation for the Arts, The MacArthur Foundation, and a professional practices panel discussion at the University of Washington. In 2004, Juniper received the Curators Choice Award at Tacoma Art Museum’s Northwest Biennial. In 2005, he had his first solo gallery exhibition at Howard House in Seattle, and in 2006, he won the People’s Choice Award at Bellevue Art Museum’s Northwest Biennial. Juniper was a fellow at The MacDowell Colony in 2010 and won the 2013 Stranger Genius Award for Performance with collaborator Zoe Scofield.

In 2005, Zoe Scofield and Juniper Shuey collaborated to create their first stage performance for On the Boards Northwest New Works Festival. As collaborators, their work has been presented nationally and internationally. They have had the good fortune to work with students and artists, sharing their creative process in many cities, including Houston, Portland, Chicago, Seattle, Salt Lake City, New York, Budapest, Atlanta, Montana, San Francisco, New Zealand, and more. Juniper is creating an artistic biographical blog here to explore the lineage of his creative work and the process of how collaboration has been an essential part of his artistic practice.