Shaad Shopnil is a Bangladeshi and American artist, who has studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art and earned her BFA in 2020 with Magna Cum Laude honors. She is now working towards her MFA in Visual Arts. Shaad was inducted into the Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society in 2017 while attending Oakton Community College in Des Plaines, near Chicago. Her mother enrolled her in an art academy in Bangladesh when she was 5 years old because drawing was one of her favorite activities. She continued her studies there for 8 years. Shaad explores various mediums including drawing, painting, video, installation, sculpture, ceramics and photography. Some of her works are realistic, others from imagination, memories, personal experiences and the stories of her subject.
