In 2010, Shaughnessy was coordinating curator of the exhibition Pop Life: Art in a Material World for the National Gallery of Canada, organized by Tate Modern.
[5] Shaughnessy was also organizing curator of Builders, the Canadian contemporary art biennial, which was exhibited at the National Gallery of Canada from November 2011 to February 2012.
[6] He also curated Louise Bourgeois: 1911-2010, which was exhibited at the National Gallery of Canada and Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in 2011-2013.
The exhibition included work by Sarah Sze, Yinka Shonibare, Tricia Middleton, David Altmejd, Lee Bul and Bharti Kher.
In 2005, he contributed an essay to The Elements of Nature featuring the work of Michael Snow, Irene Whittome, Liz Magor, Martin Honert, Giuseppe Penone and others.