Shannon Gray (b.1974, Arkansas, United States) received an M.F.A. in Painting from The Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia, in 2021. She received an M.A. in Teaching from the University of Arkansas, Monticello, Arkansas, in 2008 and a Bachelor of Art in Studio Art from College of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, Missouri, in 2000. She has exhibited her work in group exhibitions in Arkansas (Regional Art Museum in Fort Smith, Arkansas) and Missouri (Women in the Arts) in Springfield, Missouri. An art educator for the past thirteen years in Arkansas Public Schools, she teaches art at Booneville High School. Her artwork synthesizes explorations of identity, family, heritage, nature, memory, and rural landscapes. Her visual storytelling establishes a link between the landscape’s reality and that which its conceiver imagines. She lives and works in the depths of the Ouachita National Forest just south of Booneville, Arkansas. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Art.