Shannon Scrofano (she/her) is a Los Angeles-based designer, educator, and climate advocate whose work includes interdisciplinary performance, public space, exhibition, curation, participatory design, and dialogue projects internationally and throughout the US. She collaborates with communities, NGO’s, civic organizations, and other artists to explore location-based design processes, practices, and conditions.
Shannon Scrofano (she/her) is a Los Angeles-based designer, educator, and climate advocate whose work includes interdisciplinary performance, public space, exhibition, curation, participatory design, and dialogue projects internationally and throughout the US. She collaborates with communities, NGO’s, civic organizations, and other artists to explore location-based design processes, practices, and conditions.
Her work has been seen at venues including the Berlinale, the National Cultural Center in Kampala, PICA’s TBA, the Getty Villa, REDCAT, El Teatro Público in Havana, the Prague Quadrennial, the Mistake Room, MOCA Geffen, the Skirball Cultural Center, NY Live Arts, the Ostrava Festival, Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, and the Tribeca Film Festival, as well as in city halls, car dealerships, warehouses, horse stables, rivers, collapsing cathedrals, desert expanses, under bridges, on rooftops and balconies, and on an elk ranch, and has been supported by organizations including ArtPlace, National Endowment for the Arts, the Andrew J. Mellon Foundation, Creative Capital Map Fund, Pando Populus, the National League of Cities, the Surdna Foundation, TCG, USGBC, Appalshop, the Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, Partnership on Academic Leadership in Sustainability, the Association for Independent Colleges of Art and Design, the World Resources Institute, and the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
She co-founded the Center for Performance and Civic Practice, which develops strategies for artists and designers to collaborate cross-sector within communities and organizations to build civic health, equity, and capacity, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, which foregrounds biodiversity and ecological restoration as a climate solution. Past advocacy and community work includes as a founding and long-serving board member for Los Angeles Performance Practice; Co-Artistic Director of Nuestro Lugar: North Shore, the first major resident-designed, culture-driven, community development project in a rural community on the Salton Sea, in partnership with Kounkuey Design Initiative and Mutuo Architecture; as a recipient of a multi-year Mellon Foundation Creative Fellowship; and as a member of the first arts and capacity-building working group of the Kettering Foundation, focused on improving democratic practices on a national scale and generating new research around the intersections of arts and civic work. She has been a guest/visiting faculty at institutions including Brown University, Duke University, Northwestern, Georgetown, NYU, University of Washington, CalState, and at festivals and conferences including the Prague Quadrennial, the Brown Arts Initiative’s Art and the Environment, the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Sorbonne Université, and the University of Goldsmiths in London. She was named to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ YBCA100, a list of “the creative minds that are asking the questions and making the provocations that will shape the future of culture.”
She calls the Greater California bio-region home.
