Mitch
Shea
“Proselyte”, 2017
Bronze, Life size
Biography
Mitch Shea is an American sculptor and draftsman born in Augusta, Georgia 1987. He attended the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California from 2007-2010 where he studied Illustration, Metalworking, and worked on a variety of public monuments in the Bay Area. In 2011 he relocated to Florence, Italy and began studying Sculpture and Drawing at The Florence Academy of Art.
During his study he was awarded numerous accolades and as a student began teaching in 2013. Mitch is now Director of the Sculpture Program at The Florence Academy of Art. He also holds regular artist residencies in Greece and Cyprus. His works accommodate a multitude of priorities; namely, a deep commitment to observing and engaging a subject in order to produce works that contain some of the gravity and physicality of the natural world. He is keen to work in environments which are composed of striations of historical epochs that draw from both Eastern and Western cultural milieus. His work may be found in private collections throughout the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.
