Dasha Shishkin (born 1977) is an artist who works in acrylic, gouache, pastel, conté crayon, graphite, and ink, and produces prints by

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. Shishkin's drawings are often painted on both sides of the transparent

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film known as

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. Most of her prints are sold through Griffelkunst in

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, a democratic printshop founded in 1935 that distributes select prints to subscription members under the condition they cannot be resold, only given away or inherited. Shishkin was born in

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in 1977, and immigrated to New York City as a teenager. She studied at the

Parsons School of Design The Parsons School of Design is a private art and design college under The New School located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Founded in 1896 after a group of progressive artists broke away from established Manhattan art ...

, where she produced her first set of prints from 2001 to 2002, ''The 400 Series'', nine etchings so named for the number of minutes she allowed herself to prepare each drawing. One of her drawings from this period was used for

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's 2005 debut album cover.McCrickard, Kate. "Welcome to the Jungle: Violence Behind the Lines in Three Suites of Prints by Dasha Shishkin," ''Art in Print'', vol. 3, no. 5 (January–February 2014). Shishkin earned a master of fine arts degree from

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in 2006, and lives in New York City.

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Living people 1977 births Columbia University School of the Arts alumni {{Printmaker-stub