2025 Aurora + Herron Resident Shawn Bush will give an online talk about his work on February 10, Noon, 12pm EST. Please join us via Zoom at the link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86883255777
Shawn Bush, Land, Sea & Air
During his residency, Shawn Bush produced a set of exhibition prints from his series Land, Sea & Air in the Herron darkrooms. In this series, Bush uses reframing and collage techniques to explore how corporations and governments exploit visual media to shape public opinion and policy regarding critical issues, including climate change, while simultaneously downplaying the dangers and their own role in creating crisis.
Shawn Bush is a lens-based artist who grew up in Detroit, Michigan. The city's civic history and geographic location have greatly influenced his understanding of physical space within American sociopolitical and socioeconomic landscapes. Bush’s photographs and collages reflect overdeveloped systems, distorted icons, and collapsing mythologies. He earned an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and a BA from Columbia College Chicago. He was a 2025 Light Work Artist in Residence, a 2021 recipient of the Aperture CreatorLabs Photo Fund, a 2022 member of the Silver List, a 2021 Wyoming Arts Council Fellow, and a Kodak Visionary Project Award recipient. Bush won the 2024 Charta Photobook Award and will have a monograph of his project, Angle of Draw, published in conjunction with the award in 2025. His work has appeared in various publications, including Wallpaper Magazine, Wired Magazine, FotoFilmic’s JRNL, and Vogue. He has lectured nationally at several universities and art institutions, including Yale University, the University of Missouri, Filter Photo, and the Los Angeles Center for Photography.
Aurora PhotoCenter’s residencies offer invaluable opportunities for artistic development and highlight our Indianapolis arts community as a center of creative production. Applications for the 2026 residencies are now open, and the deadline to apply is March 31, 2026. Please visit auroraphoto.org for more information about the residency program.