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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Sloat Shaw: Crossing Veils, St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA
2022 Sloat Shaw: Finding Light, Spring Street Gallery, Foxborough, MA
2017 Sloat Shaw: Tasting Paint, Expanding Creativity, @ Artlery 160, Boston, MA
2012 Sloat Shaw, Zen Gallery, Saigon, Vietnam
2003 Sloat Shaw: Breaking Old Ground, Safe T Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2002 Sloat Shaw: Paintings, Drawings & Prints, Chalk Farm Gallery, Sante Fe, NM
2002 The Flood Series and Other Works, Kantar Fine Arts, Newton, MA
1999 Earth Memories at the Millennium, Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, MA
1997 Sloat Shaw: Wet & Dry, Lambert Gallery, Hanover, MA
1995 Sloat Shaw: 3 Sticks Now, Huron Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 National Juried Exhibition 2024,Providence Art Club, Michelle Millar Fisher ,MFA Curator, Providence, R.I.
2023 Celebrating Printmaking, Motherbrook Center for the Arts, Dedham, MA
2022 Our Choice, Our Voice, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
2022 Connect, Boston Printmakers, Curtis Center for the Arts Greenwood Village, CO
2022 Speedway Gallery Artists, Boston, MA
2022 Works on Paper Exhibition at LBIF, by Juror Esther Adler, Curator, MoMA , Loveladies, NJ
2022 Connect, Boston Printmakers Show, Museum of Printing, , Haverhill, MA
2022 Sub Rosa Portfolio, Museum of Printing, Haverhill, MA
2021 Connect, Boston Printmakers Show, Providence Art Club, Providence, RI
2021 Elevate, Webster Arts, Virtual Show, March-May 2021
2020 Conexiones/Connections, Taller Experimental de Grafica de La Habana, Havana, Cuba
2019 Boston Printmakers in Amsterdam, Bilderberg G.H., Amsterdam, Holland
2019 New Acquisitions, Universidade Feevale, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
2019 Impressions IV Gallery Twist, Lexington, MA
2018 Small Treasures, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA
2017 Curated Boston Artists, Boston Convention Center, Boston, MA
2016 Sub Rosa, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
2015 Prints from the Studio, Boston City Hall, Boston, MA
2014 Gallery Artists, Zen Gallery, Saigon, Vietnam
MUSEUM & PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Universidade Feevale, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Vietnam Fine Arts Collection, Hanoi Vietnam
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Art Complex Museum of Duxbury, Duxbury, MA
Decordova Museum Corporate Collections, Lincoln, MA
Surikov Institue, The Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow, Russia
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
American Printmaking Collection, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
GRANTS & AWARDS
Vasari Paint Prize, Vasari Paint, New York, NY, 2012
Artist Residency, Zen Gallery, Saigon, Vietnam, 2012
Artist Professional Toolbox Grant, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, Boston, MA, 2006
Brookline Commission for the Arts MCC/LCC Grant 2006, 2005
Grumbacher Award, Silvermine, New Canaan, CT. Juror: Diane Waldman Deputy Director
Guggenheim Museum, NY,1994
Print Prize, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1990
ARTICLES, REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS
Capsule Previews” Sloat Shaw at St. Botolph Club 5/22-9/6/24, Brian Goslow, Artscope May/June 2024
“Works on Paper”, Victoria Ford, The Sand Paper, April 2022
“Studio Visit: A Juried Selection of International Visual Artists”, The Open Studio Press 2009
“Interview with Alan Steinfeld”, New Realities BBS radio.com, May 2009
“Think Globally, Make Art Locally”, Art Matters SMFA Magazine, Spring 2008
“Interview, VT4 Television”, Hanoi, Vietnam, January 2008
“Ouida Touchon Art Talk”, The Las Cruces Bulletin, September 2007
“Interview:The Smoki Bacon Show”, Boston Cable Network, September 2003
“Artists Work Reveals Constancy of Change”by Libby Paine, Boston Globe, May 2, 2002
“Primordial Lands” by Lynn Cline, Pasatiempo, Sante Fe, NM, May 10, 2002
“Deluvian Images” by Lisa Falco, Arts Media Magazine, Boston, Ma, May 15, 2002
“Earth Memories at the Millennium” by Elizabeth Duvivier, December 1999
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Blue Sky Leadership Program, California Institute of Integral Studios, Spring 2024
Adjunct Professor, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 2015-2016
Studio Instructor, drawing & painting, private studio classes 1990-2020
Adjunct Professor, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA 2002-2008
Artist in the Schools, Brookline, MA. Funded by MCC/LCC Grant. 2006-2008
Artist in the Schools, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA. TJX funded. 2004-2005
EDUCATION
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Diploma-1989; 5th Year Certificate- 1990
Barnard College, N.Y. N.Y. B.A. 1972, Honors in Anthropology Columbia University 1972
Biography
Sloat Shaw is exploring the uncharted territory of the creative brain to locate unseen worlds in order to paint them into
existence. In a 2017 installation in Boston, Shaw collaborated with neuroscientists from Harvard and Brown. The
purpose of the show was to allow viewers to experience their own creativity as they viewed her exhibition. Each viewer
tested their brain state as they entered the space, and then again, after they stimulated their six senses. A significant
change was noted among the participant
Artist Statement
I’ve found through my work, that there is a bridge between what’s visible with the eye, and what can’t be readily seen.
In my practise, I’ve developed a unique technique that heightens my awareness and allows me to tap into a form of waking dreaming. I use this method every time I touch canvas, paper, printing stones and plates.
When I step into the studio, I release any preconceived ideas of how to work. During the weeks, often months it can take to complete a work, I take direction from the painting. By relaxing and allowing the painting to develop without conscious inference, something I haven’t seen before emerges.
I paint in layers, and as the 20, 30, often 40 layers of glazes develop, light will refract and the painting will change each time you view it. Sometimes I turn the painting upside down and sideways to paint. It’s the unpredictability and imperfections that transform the finished piece into something that sings its own song.
With each stroke of the brush, I bridge the gap between the conscious and the unconscious, weaving together the threads of the dream realm and the tangible world. It is the pulsating natural world that I paint, the earth as alive, changing and always responding to human actions.
My paintings serve as portals, inviting viewers to step into the space where imagination and reality intertwine. I hope to ignite a spark of curiosity and contemplation, to inspire a deeper connection with the living earth that surrounds us. By acknowledging the Earth's responsiveness, we can forge a more symbiotic relationship, one that honors the interconnected web of life and ensures a thriving future for generations to come.
