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I wanted this page to live on my site as both a professional record and a reminder of the years of persistence, collaboration, and community that have shaped my work. This collection reflects the long arc of my practice and my ongoing commitment to spray painting as an art form, a discipline, and a way of life.

Shane Pilster
Pittsburgh, PA
Muralist | Graffiti Artist | Designer | Educator

Selected Major Projects

Novelis, Atlanta Falcons Can Mosaic
- Role: Lead Artist
- Organization / Client: Novelis, Atlanta Falcons
- Partner: Wicked Pittsburgh
- Location: Atlanta, GA
- Date: 2025
Sports360 Exhibition
- Role: Illustrator, Fabrication Collaborator
- Organization / Client: The Kamin Science Center
- Partner: Wicked Pittsburgh
- Location: North Shore (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: 2025
Steel Valley: Past to Present
- Role: Lead Artist, Project Manager
- Organization / Client: The Waterfront Mall / M&J Wilkow
- Collaborator: Max Gonzales
- Location: Homestead (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: 2023
Welcome Back Campaign
- Role: Lead Artist, Project Manager
- Organization / Client: DICK’S Sporting Goods
- Collaborator: Max Gonzales
- Location: Swissvale (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: 2021
Voodoo Brewery Murals
- Role: Project Lead, Lead Muralist, Project Manager across multiple locations
- Organization / Client: Voodoo Brewery
- Location: Multiple locations (U.S.)
- Date: 2015–2023
Hemispheric Conversations Urban Art Project (HCUAP)
- Role: Co-Founder
- Collaborators: Caitlin Bruce, PhD, Oreen Cohen, Max Gonzales, Emma Riva
- Location: Pittsburgh, PA
- Date: 2016–Present
Rivers of Steel Graffiti Arts Program
- Role: Founder (2013), Graffiti Arts Coordinator & Curator (2013-2023)
- Organization: Rivers of Steel
- Location: Carrie Furnaces (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: 2013–2023

Professional Timeline

2025

Novelis, Atlanta Falcons Can Mosaic
- Role: Lead Artist
- Organization / Client: Novelis, Atlanta Falcons
- Partner: Wicked Pittsburgh
- Location: Atlanta, GA
Sports360 Exhibition
- Role: Illustrator, Fabrication Collaborator
- Organization / Client: The Kamin Science Center
- Partner: Wicked Pittsburgh
- Location: North Shore (Pittsburgh), PA
Miller Lite Illustrations
- Role: Project Lead, Design Lead, Collaborating Artist
- Partner: ARC Worldwide
- Collaborator: Max Gonzales
- Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Welcome to Swissvale
- Role: Project Lead, Designer, Collaborating Artist
- Organization / Client: Borough of Swissvale
- Collaborators: Scott Brozovich, Max Gonzales
- Location: Swissvale (Pittsburgh), PA

2024

Highmark’s Celebration of Community
- Role: Designer, Collaborating Artist
- Organization / Client: Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Partner: Wicked Pittsburgh
- Collaborators: Max Gonzales, Filip Agren
- Location: Uptown (Pittsburgh), PA
Thunderbolt Mural
- Role: Designer, Collaborating Artist
- Organization / Client: Kennywood Amusement Park
- Partner: Wicked Pittsburgh
- Collaborator: Max Gonzales
- Location: West Mifflin (Pittsburgh), PA
Rain Poetry Project
- Role: Project Lead, Designer, Installation Lead
- Organization / Client: PA Humanities
- Collaborator: Max Gonzales
- Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Style Wars 16mm Screening with Henry Chalfant
- Role: Panelist, Co-Organizer
- Partners: Hemispheric Conversations Urban Art Project, Pittsburgh Sound & Image
- Venue: Carnegie Museum of Art
- Location: Oakland (Pittsburgh), PA
Flint Public Art Project Mural | “Protection”
- Role: Muralist
- Organization / Client: Flint Public Art Project
- Location: Flint, MI
Collections in Black | Comic Mural
- Role: Curator, Muralist, Project Lead
- Partner: Collections in Black
- Collaborators: Brian Gonnella, Jerome Charles, Juliandra Jones, Dejouir Brown
- Location: Swissvale (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: July 2024

2023

Graffiti Oasis | Hip Hop 50 Celebration Murals
- Role: Co-Organizer, Artist
- Organization / Client: Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
- Collaborator: Max Gonzales, Juliandra Jones, Dejouir Brown, Jerome Charles, Ashley Hodder, Kemist (RIP)
- Location: Downtown (Pittsburgh), PA
Steel Valley: Past to Present
- Role: Lead Artist, Project Manager
- Organization / Client: The Waterfront Mall / M&J Wilkow
- Collaborator: Max Gonzales
- Location: Homestead (Pittsburgh), PA
Condado Tacos Mural
- Role: Muralist, Illustrator
- Organization / Client: Condado Tacos
- Location: McCandless (Pittsburgh), PA
Voodoo Brewery Mural
- Role: Project Lead, Muralist
- Organization / Client: Voodoo Brewery
- Collaborator: Max Gonzales
- Location: Colorado Springs, CO
The Circus Clowns
- Project: Commissioned triptych for private collector
- Location: Pittsburgh, PA
- Date: March 2023
Square Show
- Show: Group exhibition
- Venue: Studio 4
- Location: Bloomfield (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: May 2023

2022

Rainbow Road | Strawberry Way Mural
- Role: Co-Lead Teaching Artist, Muralist
- Partners: Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership, Pittsburgh CAPA
- Collaborators: Max Gonzales, CAPA Students
- Location: Downtown (Pittsburgh), PA
Federal Hill Mural
- Role: Muralist, Project Collaborator
- Partner: SSJ Neighborhood Network
- Collaborator: Max Gonzales
- Location: Erie, PA
The Buck’s Got Your Back | Temporary Mural
- Role: Lead Artist, Illustrator, Muralist
- Organization / Client: The Hartford Insurance
- Partner: Muros
- Collaborators: Max Gonzales, 232 Creative
- Location: Shadyside (Pittsburgh), PA
Community Forge Permanent Vinyl Mural
- Role: Muralist, Project Lead
- Organization / Client: Community Forge
- Location: Wilkinsburg (Pittsburgh), PA
Condado Tacos Mural
- Role: Muralist, Illustrator
- Organization / Client: Condado Tacos
- Location: Cranberry (Pittsburgh), PA
Condado Tacos Mural
- Role: Muralist, Illustrator
- Organization / Client: Condado Tacos
- Location: Boardman, OH
Voodoo Brewery Mural
- Role: Project Lead, Muralist
- Organization / Client: Voodoo Brewery
- Collaborators: Max Gonzales, Scott Brozovich, Michael Waibel
- Location: North Shore (Pittsburgh), PA
Voodoo Brewery Mural
- Role: Project Lead, Muralist
- Organization / Client: Voodoo Brewery
- Collaborator: Max Gonzales
- Location: Reno, NV
Voodoo Brewery Mural
- Role: Muralist
- Organization / Client: Voodoo Brewery
- Location: Houston, PA
Make Peace, Do Justice | Commissioned Artwork
- Location: Highland Park Magistrate Building, Pittsburgh, PA
- Date: January 2022
VERY | Very Law Offices Commission
- Project: Commissioned artwork installation
- Location: Downtown (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: April 2022

2021

Murals on a Mission
- Role: Lead Artist, Curator, Muralist
- Organization: Rivers of Steel
- Partners: Olde Towne Overhaul, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
- Location: New Kensington (Pittsburgh), PA
Murals on a Mission Kick-Off Event
- Role: Lead Artist, Curator
- Organization: Rivers of Steel, Olde Towne Overhaul
- Location: New Kensington, PA
- Date: May 2021
Welcome Back Campaign
- Role: Lead Artist, Project Manager
- Organization / Client: DICK’S Sporting Goods
- Collaborator: Max Gonzales
- Location: Swissvale (Pittsburgh), PA
Street Sign Show
- Role: Artist
- Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Condado Tacos Mural
- Role: Muralist, Illustrator
- Organization / Client: Condado Tacos
- Location: Bethel Park (Pittsburgh), PA
Millvale Music Festival Live Painting
- Role: Painted 2′ × 4′ canvas during event
- Location: Millvale, PA
- Date: 2021

2020

Make Our Differences Our Strengths Billboard Project | “CommUnity”
- Role: Muralist
- Organization / Client: Westmoreland Diversity Coalition
- Location: New Kensington (Pittsburgh), PA
Online Graffiti Curriculum
- Role: Content Creation, Lead Artist
- Organization: Rivers of Steel
- Location: World Wide Web
Homestead Streetside Gallery
- Role: Co-Organizer and Curator
- Organization: Rivers of Steel
- Collaborator: Doug Lopretto
- Location: Homestead (Pittsburgh), PA

2019

REVISED Exhibition
- Role: Curator, Muralist, Organizer
- Organization: Rivers of Steel
- Location: Homestead (Pittsburgh), PA
Rivers of Steel Graffiti Coloring Book
- Role: Project Lead, Designer, Co-Illustrator
- Organization: Rivers of Steel
- Collaborator: T.C.
- Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Voodoo Brewery Mural
- Role: Lead Artist, Designer
- Organization / Client: Voodoo Brewery
- Location: New Kensington (Pittsburgh), PA
Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild Collaboration
- Role: Educator, Artist
- Organization: Rivers of Steel
- Location: Manchester (Pittsburgh), PA
Festival of Combustion Live Painting
- Role: Painted 18′ × 6′ vertical canvas live at event
- Organization: Rivers of Steel
- Location: Carrie Furnaces (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: 2019

2018

Upper St. Clair High School Graffiti Arts Workshop
- Role: Educator, Artist
- Location: Upper St. Clair, PA
University of Pittsburgh Commission
- Role: Project Lead, Collaborating Artist
- Organization: University of Pittsburgh School of Engineering
- Collaborator: T.C.
- Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Wounded Warriors Parade Float
- Role: Lead Artist
- Organization: Wounded Warriors
- Location: Downtown (Pittsburgh), PA
Festival of Combustion Live Painting
- Role: Painted 14′ × 8′ graffiti mural live at event
- Organization: Rivers of Steel
- Location: Carrie Furnaces (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: 2018

2017

HCUAP Visiting Artist Mural Collaborations
- Role: Collaborating Artist, Co-Organizer
- Organization: Hemispheric Conversations Urban Art Project
- Location: Carrie Furnaces (Pittsburgh), PA
Graffiti Tower | Thrival Music Festival
- Role: Project Lead, Collaborating Artist
- Organization: Rivers of Steel
- Collaborators: T.C., Matt Spahr
- Location: Carrie Furnaces (Pittsburgh), PA
Lululemon Graffiti Signage
- Role: Project Lead, Collaborating Artist
- Collaborator: T.C.
- Location: Shadyside (Pittsburgh), PA

2016

The Runner | Go90 / Verizon Series
- Role: Project Lead, Collaborating Artist
- Organization / Client: Verizon
- Collaborators: T.C., D. McCully
- Location: Carrie Furnaces (Pittsburgh), PA
Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area: History and Graffiti Art
- Publication: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Author: Don Hopey
- Date: 2016

2013

Rivers of Steel Graffiti Arts Program
- Role: Founder, Graffiti Arts Coordinator & Curator
- Organization: Rivers of Steel
- Collaborator: Ron Baraff
- Location: Carrie Furnaces (Pittsburgh), PA
Rust Isn’t the Only Thing Covering Abandoned Carrie Furnaces
- Publication: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Author: Darrell Sapp
- Date: 2013

2010

Oakland Mural | MLK Mural Project
- Role: Lead Artist
- Organization: MLK Mural Project, Oakland Planning & Development Corp.
- Collaborators: T.C., Mike Cocco, Robyn Smigel, Community Youth, DS Kinsel, Kyle Holbrook
- Location: Oakland (Pittsburgh), PA

2009

Resolutions | Urban Tree Forge & moxie DaDA
- Role: Muralist
- Organization: Urban Tree Forge
- Partner: Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
- Venue: 820 Liberty Avenue
- Location: Downtown (Pittsburgh), PA
Whirl Magazine Cover Art
- Publication: Whirl Magazine
- Role: Cover Artist
- Date: 2009

2008

Hip-Hop on L.O.C.K. Educator
- Role: Graffiti Art Educator, Designer
- Organization: Hip-Hop On L.O.C.K.
- Location: Greater Pittsburgh, PA
- Date: 2008–2020
Walls & Dolls
- Role: Co-Creator, Artist
- Partner: Faded Industry
- Location: Strip District (Pittsburgh), PA

2005

BUBONIC Clothing
- Role: Lead Designer
- Location: Montreal, Québec, Canada

Exhibitions & Curatorial Projects

Better Watch Out | Group Art Show
- Show: Group exhibition
- Venue: Slanted & Enchanted
- Location: Garfield (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: December 2025
Line By Line: A Homage to Freight Graffiti Art Show
- Show: Group exhibition | YME Graffiti Festival
- Venue: Notch8 Gallery
- Location: Portland, MN
- Date: July 2025
Figuring It Out
- Show: Solo exhibition
- Venue: New Amsterdam Bar
- Location: Lawrenceville (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: March 2025
AMALGAMATIONS
- Show: Group exhibition
- Venue: Slanted & Enchanted
- Location: Garfield (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: October–November 2024
Exalted Plains
- Show: Group exhibition
- Venue: ImageBox
- Location: Garfield (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: April 2024
Street Show 2
- Show: Group exhibition
- Venue: Studio 4
- Location: Bloomfield (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: February 2024
Collections in Black | Comic Mural
- Role: Curator, Muralist, Project Lead
- Show: In connection with Collections in Black exhibit at The August Wilson Center of African American Culture
- Collaborators: Brian Gonnella, Jerome Charles, Juliandra Jones, Dejouir Brown
- Location: Swissvale (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: July 2024
Square Show
- Show: Group exhibition
- Venue: Studio 4
- Location: Bloomfield (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: May 2023
The Circus Clowns
- Project: Commissioned triptych
- Location: Pittsburgh, PA
- Date: March 2023
VERY | Very Law Offices
- Project: Commissioned graffiti artwork
- Location: Downtown (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: April 2022
Make Peace, Do Justice
- Project: Commissioned artwork
- Location: Highland Park Magistrate Building, Pittsburgh, PA
- Date: January 2022
Murals on a Mission Kick-Off Event
- Role: Co-Organizer, Artist, Curator
- Organization: Rivers of Steel, Olde Towne Overhaul
- Location: New Kensington, PA
- Date: May 2021
Homestead Streetside Gallery
- Role: Co-Organizer and Curator
- Organization: Rivers of Steel, Doug Lopretto
- Location: Homestead (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: August–November 2020
Rivers of Steel Graffiti Arts Program
- Role: Founder (2013), Graffiti Arts Coordinator & Curator (2013-2023)
- Organization: Rivers of Steel
- Location: Carrie Furnaces (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: 2013–2023

Festivals, Public Paints & Visiting Artist Walls

Baltimore Graffiti Jam
- Role: Painted 18’x7′ graffiti mural as part of a 500-foot collaborative wall
- Location: Checkerspot Brewery, Baltimore, MD
- Date: October 2025
Spirit Walls Festival
- Role: Painted 18′ × 9′ “SPIRIT” mural collaboration
- Location: Spirit Lounge, Lawrenceville (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: August 2025
Allentown Mural Festival
- Role: Painted 22′ × 14′ graffiti mural with Vaughn Bodé characters
- Location: Allentown (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: August 2025
Aerosol Nightmares Graffiti Festival
- Role: Painted 22′ × 14′ graffiti mural with Marvel characters
- Location: Detroit, MI
- Date: July 2025
Art All Night Pittsburgh
- Role: Painted 20′ × 9′ graffiti mural
- Organization: Art All Night Pittsburgh
- Location: Northside (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: April 2025
Color Park Graffiti Jam & Free Open Paint
- Role: Branding design, event planning collaborator, muralist
- Organization: Friends of the Riverfront
- Location: Southside (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: September 2024
2Buck Invitational
- Role: Painted 20′ × 13′ graffiti mural as part of collaborative mural
- Location: Louisville, KY
- Date: September 2024
Flint Public Art Project | Protection
- Role: Muralist
- Organization: Flint Public Art Project
- Location: Flint, MI
- Date: September 2024
HCUAP Visiting Artist in Residence
- Role: Collaborator and event co-organizer
- Location: Garfield and Homewood (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: June 2024
Re: Mixtape | Shadow Style Installation
- Role: Artist and installation collaborator
- Organizer: Hemispheric Conversations Urban Art Project
- Location: Garfield (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: June 2024
Benchers Union Festival
- Role: Painted 18′ × 9′ graffiti mural as part of collaborative mural
- Location: Erie, PA
- Date: June 2023
Santuario Galería Painting
- Role: Painted 14′ × 6′ graffiti mural in open-air gallery
- Organization: Santuario Galería
- Location: Cancún, Mexico
- Date: April 2023
Spirit Lounge Collaborative Wall
- Role: Contributing artist to collaborative mural
- Location: Lawrenceville (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: August 2023
Roaming Onward Paint Jam
- Role: Organizer, artist
- Organization: Rivers of Steel
- Location: Carrie Furnaces (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: October 2022
Ruff Ride Live Painting
- Role: Painted 12′ × 6′ mural on canvas during event
- Organizations: Ruff Ride PGH, Wicked Pittsburgh
- Location: Oakland (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: September 2022
Homestead First Fridays Live Painting
- Role: Painted 12′ × 6′ mural on Saran Wrap during event
- Organization: Rivers of Steel
- Location: Homestead, PA
- Date: September 2022
Millvale Music Festival Live Painting
- Role: Painted 2′ × 4′ canvas during event
- Location: Millvale, PA
- Date: August 2021
Non Stop Flavor Graffiti Festival
- Role: Event Organizer
- Organization: Rivers of Steel
- Location: Carrie Furnaces (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: June 2021
Festival of Combustion Live Painting
- Role: Painted 18′ × 6′ vertical canvas attached to scissor lift
- Organization: Rivers of Steel
- Location: Carrie Furnaces (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: October 2019
Festival of Combustion Live Painting
- Role: Painted 14′ × 8′ graffiti mural during event
- Organization: Rivers of Steel
- Location: Carrie Furnaces (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: October 2018
Benchers Union Festival
- Role: Painted 20′ × 8′ graffiti mural as part of collaborative mural
- Location: Erie, PA
- Date: June 2012
STATIC FREE Graffiti Mural
- Role: Painted 14′ × 7′ graffiti mural as part of 120′ × 20′ collaborative mural
- Location: Eliza Furnace Trail (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: September 2005
Flux 11
- Role: Painted 14′ × 7′ graffiti mural as part of collaborative installation
- Location: Garfield (Pittsburgh), PA
- Date: June 2003

Press & Publications

Mastering Muralism: Art, Community, and Collaboration
- Publication: Shiftworks Community + Public Arts
- Date: 2025
Local Artists Help Create Kennywood’s New Thunderbolt Mural
- Publication: WPXI News
- Date: 2024
Murals on a Mission: Community Spotlight
- Publication: Rivers of Steel
- Date: 2021
Carrie Furnace National Landmark Graffiti Hotspot
- Publication: The Pitt News
- Date: 2019
7 Best Places to See Street Art in Pittsburgh
- Publication: Next Pittsburgh
- Date: 2019
Graffiti Artists Turning Blighted Wilkinsburg Properties into Colorful Canvases
- Publication: Next Pittsburgh
- Date: 2018
Two Pittsburgh Street Artists Are Calling for Kindness in Sharpsburg
- Publication: Next Pittsburgh
- Date: 2017
Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area: History and Graffiti Art
- Publication: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Author: Don Hopey
- Date: 2016
Rust Isn’t the Only Thing Covering Abandoned Carrie Furnaces
- Publication: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Author: Darrell Sapp
- Date: 2013
Whirl Magazine Cover Art
- Publication: Whirl Magazine
- Date: 2009

Media & Broadcast Interviews

Talk Pittsburgh – Do What We Love Initiative Showcases Artists
- Publication: CBS / KDKA
- Date: 2023
Sweetwater Art Center Interview
- Publication: KDKA
- Date: 2023
YaJagoff Late Night Podcast Interview
- Publication: YaJagoff Podcast
- Date: 2022
WQED Artist Interview
- Publication: WQED Pittsburgh
- Date: 2021
VIXEN Exhibition Opening Video
- Publication: KSD Studios
- Date: 2021

Teaching, Lectures & Workshops

Rivers of Steel Graffiti Arts Program
- Role: Founder (2013), Graffiti Arts Coordinator & Lead Educator (2013-2023)
- Organization: Rivers of Steel
- Location: Carrie Furnaces (Pittsburgh), PA
- Dates: 2013–2023
Hip-Hop on L.O.C.K. Arts Education Program
- Role: Graffiti Art Educator, Designer
- Organization: Hip-Hop On L.O.C.K.
- Location: Greater Pittsburgh, PA
- Dates: 2008–2020
Hemispheric Conversations Urban Art Project (HCUAP)
- Role: Co-Founder, Workshop Facilitator, Collaborating Artist, Co-Organizer
- Collaborators: Caitlin Bruce, PhD, Oreen Cohen, Max Gonzales, Emma Riva
- Location: Pittsburgh, PA
- Dates: 2016–Present
Guest Workshops & Lectures
- Role: Teaching Artist
- Institutions include: University of Pittsburgh, The Andy Warhol Museum, Propel Schools, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh CAPA, Upper St. Clair High School, Community Forge, and a plethora of schools and regional arts programs
- Dates: 2010–Present

Comprehensive CV