DEE SHAPIRO deeshapiro@gmail.com, www.deeshapiro.art
Education: BA, MS, Queens College, New York, University of Mexico, Mexico City, Brooklyn Museum
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2004 "Getting There" Sid Jacobson, JCC, Greenvale, LI, NY
2023 "Peripheral Visions" LABspace Art, Hillsdale, NY
2022 "Redrawn and Redressed" David Richard Gallery, NYC
2021 "In the Beginning...Selections From 1974-1981," David Richard Gallery
2019 "Snatched and Reworked," David Richard Gallery, NYC
2019 "Largely Petite," Ro2Art Dallas, Texas
2016 ART 101, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
2015 Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT
2012, 2010, 2009 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
2010 Norfolk Library, Norfolk, CT
2009 George Billis Gallery, NYC
2006 Harrison Street Gallery, Frenchtown, NJ
2004 The Mercy Gallery, Loomis Chafee, Windsor, CT
2004,2002 Andre Zarre Gallery, National Arts Club, NYC
2000 Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA
1998 Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, NY
1997,94,91,88,85,82 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
1984 Ana Sklar Gallery, Miami, Fl
1983 Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
1981 Dubins Gallery, Los Angeles, FL; Zenith Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1979 Gallery 700, Milwaukee, WI
1978 Moreau Gallery, St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN
1977 University of Arkansas. Little Rock, AK
1977 Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
1975-1973 Central Hall Gallery, Port Washington, NY
1973 Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2024/25 "Optics and Perception: Prismatic, Patterned, Vectored, and Perspectival Approaches" Online
2024 "Non-Objectified" Kino Saito Foundation, Verplanck, NY
2024 "Exhibiting Artist Members" The National Arts Club, NYC
2024 "Among Friends," Metaphor Projects Brooklyn, NY
2024 Women's History Month, VanDeb Editions, LIC, NY
2024 "Abstraction in Fiber and Paint. 1974-1989" D. Wigmore Fine Art. NYC
2023 "Process and Delight: The New P& D," Equity Gallery NYC
2023 "Geometric Shapes and Color", David Richard Gallery NYC
2023 The National Arts Club, NYC
2023 "SHE/HER, Ro2 Gallery, Dallas, Tx
2022 "The Difference We Made," Carter Burden Gallery, NYC
2022 "By Her Hand," Eckert Fine Art, North Adams, MA
2022 "Sensing Woman," C24 Gallery, New York, NY
2022 "Beyond Realism," Bernay Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA
2022 "Two Centuries of Long Island Artists," Stony Brook, LI
2021 "Drawing Challenge, XXIII, XXIV" Jason McCoy Gallery, on line exhibit
2021 "11 Women of Spirit," Zürcher Gallery, NYC,
2021 "With Pleasure..."June, 2021 Hessel Museum, Bard College
2020 "The Artist's Hand" Watson Gallery, Naples, Florida
2020 "Unfinished Business," Bernay Fine Art, Great Barrington, Ma
2020 "My Corona," Ro2 Gallery, Dallas Texas
2019 "With Pleasure, Pattern and Decoration 1972-1985," LAMOCA,
2018 "Systemic Pattern Painting: Artists of the Criss-Cross Collective," David Richard Gallery,NYC
2018 "Casheesh 18," Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington,MA; LabSpace, Hillsdale,NY
2018 "The New Art Darlings," Fort Worth, Texas
2018 "Materiality," Geoffrey Young Gallery (The Knolls), Great Barrington, MA
2018 "The Yaddo Six," The National Arts Club, NYC
2017 "The American Dream," Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany
2017 "Taconic North," LABspace, Hillsdale, NY; Mighty Minis, West Cornwall, CT
2017 Women's History Month, Van Deb Editions, LIC, NY
2017 Exhibiting Artist Members, The National Arts Club, NYC.
2017 "Thru the Rabbit Hole, Sideshow Nation V, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Casheesh Twenty-Sixteen, Great Barrington, MA
2016 "Home Sweet Home," Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
2016 "Through the Looking Glass," Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 "Casheesh Fifteen," Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA,:
2015 "Panorama," No. 6 Depot, West Stockbridge, MA; Water’s Edge, Mahasset, LI; "Exquisite," LabSpace, Hillsdale, NY
2014,15 "Paperazzi 3 ",Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Bklyn; NY: Sideshow Gallery, Bklyn,NY; Long Island Biennial, Huntington, LI
2014 "Small Matters of Great Importance," The Edward Hopper House, Nyack, NY
2013 "Tryst and Shout", Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA; Summer Show, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; "Op + Pop - Experiments of American artists since 1960," Staatsgalerie,Stuttgart, Germany; Sideshow Nation, Bklyn, NY; "Paper, Torn, Mirror," Brian Morris Gallery, NY,
2012 "XCentric," Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA ;"Casheesh 2," Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA; "Papperazzi,"Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Bklyn, NY; Brian Morris Gallery, NY, "Strategic Abstraction," Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2010 Habitat for Artists, NYC
2009 "A Book About Death," Queens Museum, NY, MOMA, Wales; "Diverse Interludes," Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC; "Summer in the City," George Billis Gallery, NYC
2008 "The Last Book," Buenos Aires, Argentina
2007 "Goodnight Sun," George Billis Gallery, NYC
2006 "Street Scenes" Gallery North, Setauket, LI
2003 The National Art Club, NYC
2001 Jay Etkin Gallery, Memphis, TN; Uta Stebich Gallery, Lenox, MA
2000 "25th Anniversary Show," Andre Zarre Gallery
1996 "A Woman's Place," The Museums at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, LI
1993 "Artists Books," Islip Museum, Islip, NY
1991 "Small Works," Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC
1986 "Let's Play House," Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, NYC
1983 "Criss-Cross en la Ciudad de Mexico," Galeria Pecanins, Mexico
1982 "Criss-Cross," Boulder Art Center, Boulder, CO
1981 "Recent Acquisitions," Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Criss-Cross "Pattern Show," Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, "Women and Art," Suzanne Brown Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, "101 New Acquisitions," Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY; "Criss-Cross" Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT, "Homework," Women's Hall of Fame, Seneca Falls, NY; "Abstract Art in the 80's" Randolph-Macon College, Lynchburg VA
1980 "Pattern Painters of New York," Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY;"Criss-Cross Pattern Show", NYC,: "New Talents," Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield CT; "New York Pattern Painters," Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL
1979 "Patterns Plus," Dayton Institute of Art, Dayton, OH; Patterns on Paper at Pace, Pace University, NYC
1978 "Home Work," Xerox Quilt, Syracuse University, Syracuse,NY
1977 "Pattern Painting," PS 1, Long Island City, NY; "Pattern, Grid and System Art," Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
1976 "Contemporary Reflections," Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
1975 "Works on Paper, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; "Four Artist Invitational," AIR Gallery, NYC
1974 "18" CUNY Graduate Center, NYC
SELECTED COLLECTIONS:
AG Rosen Collections
Albright College Collection, Reading, PA
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Brooklyn Museum, Feminist Art Base NY
Buffalo AKG Art Museum,Buffalo, NY
Citibank Collection, NYC
Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
Colorado University Art Museum, Boulder Co
Corporate Collection, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Dartmouth Museum of Art, Hanover, NH
Dayton Institute, Dayton, OH
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC
Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Hoffman-LaRoche Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
LAMOCA, Los Angeles, CA
Lehigh University Collection, Bethlehem, PA
Museum of Friends, Walsenburg, CO
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
New York Public Library Print Collection, NYC
New York University Collection, NYC
Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK
Owens-Corning Corp., Corning, NY
Pepsico Corporation, NY
St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN
Texaco Corporation, NY
The National Arts Club, NYC
United States Department of State, Washington, DC
University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AK
William Louis-Dreyfus Family Collection, Mount Kisco, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Taliesan Thomas, Chronogram Magazine, April 2023
Kathy Battista, "Readdressing the Nude," catalog essay, 2022
Etty Yaniv, Art Spiel, Dee Shapiro, August 23, 2021
James Panero, The Critic's Notebook, Dee Shapiro, In the Beginning, April 14, 2021
Christopher Marcizc, The Berkshire Eagle, May 13, 2021
Martha Schwendener "A Downtown Alternative" New York Times, Friday, May 7 2021
John Yau, "An Independent Vision" catalog essay 2019
Dallas Beat, Review Cristee Cook 2019
The Pythians, Artist Books www.thepythians.net 2018
James Panero, Supreme Fiction, March, 2010, Piri Halaz, From the Mayor’s Doorstep, April 2010
Steve Starger, Art New England, Dee Shapiro: “On The Horizontal,” Feb/Mar 2005
Maureen Mullarkey, The New York Sun,”The Last Time I Saw Cuba,” April 15, 2004
James Kalm, NY ARTS, International Edition, April 2000,
Helen Harrison, The New York Times, April 12,1998, April 11, 1981
Barbara Colin, "Pattern of a Painter" New York Arts Journal , Oct-Nov 1981
Harald Szeeman, "Pattern Paintings" D U Die Kunstzeitschrift, Zurich, June 1979
Ellen Lubell, "Lush Complexities and Visual Indulgence" Soho Weekly News, Feb.13, 1979
Judith Tannenbaum, Arts Magazine, April 1978
Peter Frank, "Pattern Painting", ARTnews, 1978
April Kingsley, "Oppulent Optimism", The Village Voice, Nov. 28. 1977
John Canaday, "Talent Blooms", The New York Times, May 9. 1976
Madeleine Bernside, ARTnews, April 1975
Curatorial Work
Food in Art, Stage Set Designs, Artist's Books, Late Career Artists, Prime Time
Gallery Director, North Shore Community Art Center 1977-1980
Tailored: Stitched, Patched, Threaded, Pinned, Knox Gallery, Monterey, MA, 2015
Something Else, Ten Artist at the Painting Center, NYC, 2016.
Gallery Exhibitions as Committee Chair:
Winter Warmth, National Arts Club 2016-2017
Hot Off the Presses, Prints of 2016, National Arts Club, January 2015
Between the Lines, Drawing Show, National Arts Club, January 2015
Collective Energy: Sacred and Profane, National Arts Club, 2016
Alternate Lives, National Arts Club, May 2017
O Beautiful, National Arts Club, June 2019
Painting the Narrative, National Arts Club, May-June 2021
Teaching and Residencies
Visiting Artist in Long Island Schools 1975-1978
Lecturer, Hofstra University, LI, NY, 1980
Co-teaching, Adelphi University LI, NY "Saying Seeing" Poetry and Arts 1980
Visiting Artist, St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana, 1981
Lecturer, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NY 1981
Visiting Artist, Bowling Green Sate College, Bowling Green, OH 1986
Faculty Adjunct, Empire State College, Old Westbury, NY 1977-present
Fellow, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, May 2017, May 2019, May 2022
Memberships
Women Writing Women's Lives
The National Arts Club: Former Board Member, Former Exhibition Committee Chair, Co Chair Literary Committee
College Art Association
Archive at National Museum of Women in the Arts
Grants
America The Beautiful Fund, "The North Shore in the 1920's" 1978
NEA Videotext Project, 1980, CAPS finalist, 1982-1984
Cow Parade, NYC Parks Department (Leopard Cow) 2000
Wolf Kahn Grant, Something Else Exhibit, Painting Center, NY 2016
Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2023