Shannon Lee Castleman

Shannon Castleman has been an Assistant Professor in the School of Art, Design and Media since 2006. Before joining NTU she taught at Dar Al Hekma College in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She graduated from San Francisco Art Institute with a MFA in Photography in May of 2004. She received a BFA from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 1993. She was the recipient of Murphy Fine Arts Fellowship from the San Francisco Foundation in 2003. Castleman has worked as a freelance photographer for clients and publications including Ray Gun, Rolling Stone, Alternative Press and Workman Publishing. Her work has been included in a number of exhibitions, both in her native United States and internationally. Most recently her series entitled “Hanoi Ve Dem” was included in the Viet Nam! From Myth to Modernity exhibition at Singapore's Asian Civilizations Museum. In June 2008 she was commissioned by Substation to produce a video installation in conjunction with SeptFest 2008. Her project “Jurong West Street 81” was featured in a solo exhibition at the Substation Gallery.