Shannon Leah Collis is an interdisciplinary artist who investigates relationships among multiple sensory modalities and between visual and acoustic phenomena in perception. She creates audiovisual installations and interactive environments that highlight the situated, embodied experience of hearing and seeing.

Her work has been widely exhibited across North America and abroad, including solo exhibitions at The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art (Ursinus College, PA), The Dalton Gallery (Agnes Scott College, GA), Grizzly Grizzly (Philadelphia, PA), and Open Studio Contemporary Printmaking Centre (Toronto, Canada). Other collaborations and screenings include projects at the Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA) Australia, the Walters Art Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) (Baltimore, MD), and the Currents New Media Festival (Santa Fe, NM). She has been awarded the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation’s Rubys Artist Grant (2019) and was a finalist for the Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize (2014). She has received numerous individual and project grants from the Canada Council for the Arts (2018, 2015) and the Maryland State Arts Council (2021, 2019). Among her international residencies are the Bogong Center for Sound Culture in Victoria, Australia (2018) and Nau Côclea in Camallera, Girona, Spain (2019). Her work is included in public collections in Europe and across North America.

Collis is a 2005 graduate of the Master of Fine Art program at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, where she teaches digital media and sound.