Ian Shults
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Caida Crescendo
Ballroom Blitz
The Twilight of the Dreamboats •
Further Evidence of Janet's Hysteria
The Dynamics of Persuasion v Dissuasion on Altered Mind States 1
The Dynamics of Persuasion v Dissuasion on Altered Mind States 2
The Great Escape •
Study Hall
The Kindly Ones
Nothing to See Here
The Crusher
The Maestro
Mascara Contra Mascara •
Every Day is Halloween
Go Go Animato •
Tigers of Different Stripes
That Better Be a Good Bottle •
The List of Every Goddam Thing You've Come to Expect •
Horseplay Leads to Tears
It's the Devil I Love
The Implicit Potential for Further Disaster (After Bob Gruen) •
The Indecent Obsessions of Weird Mall Kids (After Derek Ridgers and Ed Van Der Elsken)
A Tawdry Thing in the Age of Ennui •
The Undesirables
Les Irritations du Minotaure
Every F-ing Time
Caida Crescendo, 2025
acrylic on canvas wrapped panel, 60 x 96 inches, $12000
Ballroom Blitz, 2025
acrylic on canvas wrapped panel, 60 x 60 inches, $8200
The Twilight of the Dreamboats, 2025
acrylic on canvas wrapped panel, 48 x 60 inches, sold
Further Evidence of Janet's Hysteria, 2025
acrylic on canvas wrapped panel, 48 x 60 inches, $7000
The Dynamics of Persuasion v Dissuasion on Altered Mind States 1, 2025
acrylic on canvas wrapped panel, 54 x 48 inches, $6500
The Dynamics of Persuasion v Dissuasion on Altered Mind States 2, 2025
acrylic on canvas wrapped panel, 54 x 48 inches, $6500
The Great Escape, 2025
acrylic on canvas wrapped panel, 48 x 48 inches, sold
Study Hall, 2025
acrylic on canvas wrapped panel, 48 x 48 inches, $5800
The Kindly Ones, 2025
acrylic on canvas wrapped panel, 42 x 42 inches, $5000
Nothing to See Here, 2025
acrylic and oil on canvas wrapped panel, 45 x 36 inches, $4700
The Crusher, 2025
acrylic on canvas wrapped panel, 30 x 30 inches, $3500
The Maestro, 2025
acrylic on canvas wrapped panel, 30 x 30 inches, $3500
Mascara Contra Mascara, 2025
acrylic and oil on canvas wrapped panel, 23 x 23.5 inches, sold
Every Day is Halloween, 2025
acrylic on canvas wrapped panel, 23 x 23.5 inches, $2800
Go Go Animato, 2025
acrylic on canvas wrapped panel, 45 x 36 inches, sold
Tigers of Different Stripes, 2025
acrylic on canvas wrapped panel, 45 x 36 inches, $4300
That Better Be a Good Bottle, 2023
acrylic on canvas, 42 x 40 inches, sold
The List of Every Goddam Thing You've Come to Expect, 2023
acrylic on canvas, 48 x 60 inches, sold
Horseplay Leads to Tears, 2023
acrylic on canvas wrapped panel, 36 x 72 inches, $6200
It's the Devil I Love, 2023
acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 inches, $3800
The Implicit Potential for Further Disaster (After Bob Gruen), 2023
acrylic on canvas, 60 x 48 inches, sold
The Indecent Obsessions of Weird Mall Kids (After Derek Ridgers and Ed Van Der Elsken), 2023
acrylic on canvas wrapped panel, 40 x 60 inches, $5800
A Tawdry Thing in the Age of Ennui, 2023
acrylic on canvas, 60 x 96 inches, sold
The Undesirables, 2024
acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24 inches, $2500
Les Irritations du Minotaure, 2023
acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 inches, $3800
Every F-ing Time, 2019
charcoal on paper, 22 x 30 inches unframed, $1200
About the artist...
View Ian Shults' March 2024 solo show 'Common Drugs and the Fantasies They Produce' here.
Take a virtual tour of Shults' 2019 show at Wally Workman Gallery here, Shults' 2017 show here, or his 2015 show here.
Read the American Art Collector review of his 2019 show, or the review of Shults' 2015 show.
Read The Austin Chronicle Cover Story here.
Ian Shults was chosen as #35 on the Oxford American's Top 100 Southern Artists in 2012.
"Finish this sentence, sure, but then put the goddam paper down or step away from the screen and haul your ass up West Sixth to see this first show by local painter Ian Shults. That's the best advice we can give a fellow citizen right now, as the Workman Gallery decks its walls with the deconstructed vintage reprobates and swingers, all mid-century seersucker and clandestine hanky-panky, rendered in stunning acrylics by this hotshot with a brush and a brain." - The Austin Chronicle, July 9, 2010
Ian Shults' paintings forge fine art and the profane to tell sordid tales of debauchery with a sly sense of humor. His paintings recall a bygone era when the sheen of the American Dream dulled, and subversive behavior of illicit drugs and kinky benders were swept under the rug. Ian spent eight years as the Lead Illustrator and Head Sculptor at Blue Genie Art, where his ideas and vision accounted for much of the look of the various sculptures and illustrations produced at the shop.