Sheila Rieman

Sheila Rieman has never wavered in her lifelong commitment to being an artist.  She studied art and animal science at NDSU in Fargo, financing much of her education with free-lance lettering she’d started doing at the age of 13.  She decided to put her efforts into painting full time within a few years of leaving NDSU and her pastels have been widely exhibited for over 25 years.

In addition to the 1994 Tuffy Berg Award and 2002 Artist’s Choice Award at the C.M. Russell Art Auction, her work has received numerous top awards from pastel societies and other juried exhibitions across the nation, including New York City.  She is a regular participant in the Quickdraw at the Buffalo Bill Art Auction in Cody, WY and is an invited artist at Settlers West Miniature Show in Tucson, AZ.  Rieman has had several one-woman shows including a 2003 exhibit at the Plains Art Museum, Fargo.  She was one of sixteen women invited to participate in an exhibition of established and emerging female artists of the plains at North Dakota State University in March 2004.  The Disney-sponsored Ryman Art Benefit in Los Angeles honored her as a featured artist in 1999.

Rieman’s work has appeared in several publications including Equine Images, (December 1993), The Pastel Journal, (March 2000), and American Artist, (cover artist, May 2000). She was commissioned to create four annual event posters for the national horse exposition, Equine Affaire of Columbus, Ohio, and her artwork is currently featured on a Billings area billboard for the new bear exhibit at ZooMontana.     This October, Sheila will once again be a guest artist at one of the nation’s top resorts, Triple Creek Ranch at Darby, MT.  She is a signature member of the Pastel Society of America and teaches pastel workshops nationwide. 

Her work hangs in hundreds of private and corporate collections here and abroad and is represented by galleries and art consultants in several states.  Rieman is works from her studio near Sentinel Butte, North Dakota.