Shailinn Messer received her BFA from Tuft’s School of Museum of Fine Arts in 2017.

 

Rooted in drawing, painting, and an affinity for photography, Shailinn has cultivated a practice that combines all three mediums.

 

Her education and training in art, psychology, and profession in the floral industry inform her delicately captivating and ambiguous yet fantastical surreal portraits from another world.

 

Completed 2020. Funding provided by the Maryland State Arts Council.