Juniper Shuey
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 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 NWNW and formed zoe | juniper. zoe | juniper has toured nationally and internationally, presenting dance, video installation, film, sculpture and photography. Juniper collaborates with glass artist Preston Singletary since 2018 and together they are working on a new project premiering in 2028.
