Shawn Cheatham

Shawn Cheatham studied film and media at the University of Florida and received his Master of Fine Arts from the University of South Florida, Tampa.

His video work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally in such venues as the New York Short Film Festival and the Tromanale Festival in Berlin, Germany.

His work focuses primarily on using video as a heuretic, or inventive tool, in order to critique discourses such as Cinema and Television, to examine how these discourses institute and control knowledge, and to identify oneself as an active participant within the spheres of this knowledge.