Shevaun Wright

Shevaun Wright is a lawyer and artist engaged in the growing field of legal aesthetics. Her art practice is interdisciplinary and research based, utilizing the contractual medium and the notion of the ‘social contract,’ as well as re-contextualized dialogues as a tool for engaging in institutional legal and artistic critique. Informed by her Aboriginal heritage, she aims to extrapolate feminist and post-colonial critiques of the law and art as a means to access and reveal similarities in their discursive practices. She worked as a commercial lawyer in Australia for six and a half years and recently passed the California bar. She is now practicing in the field of entertainment and art law in Los Angeles. She has undertaken numerous residencies, including the Whitney Independent Study Program (Studio) and most recently was an artist fellow of the Banff International Curatorial Institute. She has masters degrees in art and law including a Master of Fine Arts from UCLA’s Interdisciplinary Studio program.