Rate My Professor Shaun Roberts

Roberts' artistic practice centers on timeless narratives conveyed through allegorical and mythological motifs infused with drama and pathos. Inspired by Renaissance painters and Hellenistic sculptors, he crafts archetypal images within mythological landscapes, probing sentimentality and sensuality to foster cathartic encounters between viewer and subject—evoking themes of love, death, or eternal sunsets. His work has appeared in solo exhibitions such as Archetypes and Eternal Stories at the Carnegie Arts Center in Alliance, Nebraska, and the Gadsden Museum of Art in Gadsden, Alabama (2022), and Rebels and Renegades at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas in Beaumont, Texas (2018). Group exhibitions include venues like First Street Gallery in New York City, the University of Southern Mississippi Museum of Art in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky, and Kirk Hopper Fine Art in Dallas, Texas, spanning over 20 states. Key honors encompass first place and People's Choice Award in the 7th Annual World Wide Kitsch Classical Painting Competition (2022) and the 2024 Teaching Excellence Award for the Micky Elliott College of Fine Arts at SFA. Roberts recently undertook a residency alongside painter Odd Nerdrum in Norway.