About The Artist
I paint what moves me. Whether it’s a face or a figure, I attempt to capture the emotion within me when I paint it. My current work features portraits of pop culture icons but I also do commissioned works, figures, and more. I’m at my most vulnerable but most empowered when I create. I paint to music and it plays a large part in my work. The marks and strokes may be made with brushes or palette knives and blur the line between real and abstract. My work incorporates gesture and texture. What comes out on the canvas or board are the physical expressions of what I’m feeling.
Based in her Marin County studio, this self-taught GenX expressionist has been creating since childhood. Raised in the Midwest by an artist father, Shaney Fago brings a storyteller’s eye to the canvas, informed by a Master’s in Journalism and a career in marketing. Since shifting focus to art five years ago, she has developed a signature style defined by bold colors and mixed media. Her work blends lifelong creative intuition with a modern, textured, expressionist edge. Shaney Fago has collectors throughout the United States and the United Kingdom and her work has been exhibited at Gallery Sausalito, KNK Contemporary Gallery in San Francisco, and the Harvey Milk Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
Oil Paint, Acrylic Paint, Pastel, Mixed Media
Studio Information
Please park on West End Ave. and walk up Sentinel and take an immediate left down the alley.
Contact Information
7203205507
Exhibitions & Press
KNK Contemporary Gallery Holiday Show, December 2025, 1049 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA
Collins & Fago Art Show Presented by Ross Valley Real Estate, September 12, 2025, 902 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, San Anselmo, CA
Navigate Realty Presents: An Evening of Art with Teal Collins & Shaney Fago, August 22, 2025, 140 2nd Street, Petaluma, CA
Harvey Milk Center for the Arts & Photo Center Annual Art & Pride Show, June-July 2025, 50 Scott Street, San Francisco, CA
The Biggest Small Works Show at Gallery Sausalito, June-July 2025, 30 Princess Street, Sausalito, CA
I Heart Art Show Presented by the Women’s Art Alliance, February 2025, Studio Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA
Marin Arts & Culture Guide, February 2025
https://marinarts.org/event/the-i-heart-art-pop-up-show-sponsored-by-the-womens-art-alliance/
Education
Professional Development
2025 Painting Beyond the Portrait, Workshop with Matt Talbert (Online)
2022 Tools & Techniques in Figurative Painting, Penn Studio School, Philadelphia, PA
Instructor: Jacob Dhein
2022 Painting Loosely, Workshop with David Shevlino (Online)
2021 Figurative Art Studies, New Masters Academy (Online) Instructors: Charles Hu, Catherine Bobkoski, Joshua Jacobo
1999-2011 Worked as a senior marketing and communications professional developing strategy and branding in a variety of industries as well as overseeing creative direction and production of communications materials and messaging.
1999 M.A. Journalism – inter-disciplinary Master’s program combining advertising, marketing and communications-University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
1996 B.S. Business Administration-University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
