Shelah Horvitz

Awards

(2020) Finalist, Portraiture, 15th International Art Renewal Center Salon Competition, Port Reading, NJ. Judges:
Dr. Vern Swanson, Kara Ross, Michael John Angel, Xu Mangyao
(2020) Finalist, Strokes of Genius, Artist's Network
(2019) Finalist, Landscape, 14th International Art Renewal Center Salon Competition, Port Reading, NJ. Judges: Dr. Vern Swanson, Fred Ross, Mandy Theis, Sadie Valeri
(2018) Merit Award, National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society (NOAPS) 28th Best of America National Exhibition, Eisele Gallery of Fine Art, Cincinnati, OH. Judge: Adam Clague.
(2012) Special Recognition Award, Animals Art Exhibition, Light Space & Time Gallery.
(1988) Merit Scholarship, University of Texas at San Antonio
(1988) Creative Achievement Award, University of Texas at San Antonio
(1987) Travel Citation, Texas Annual Exhibition, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas
(1987) Liquitex Fine Art Achievement Award, Binney & Smith, Inc.
(1987) Creative Achievement Award, University of Texas at San Antonio
(1986) Creative Achievement Award, University of Texas at San Antonio

Selected Exhibitions

(2020) Stone Sparrow NYC Gallery, New York, NY, "Superheroes"
(2020) Stone Sparrow NYC Gallery, New York, NY, "The Unseen"
(2020) Salmagundi Club, New York, NY, "Figuratively Speaking,"
(2019) Guild of Boston Artists, Boston, MA, "2019 Regional Juried Exhibition,"
(2019) Salmagundi Club, New York, NY, "2019 Open Painting, Sculpture & Graphics exhibition",
(2018) National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society (NOAPS), Eisele Gallery of Fine Art, Cincinnati, OH. Judge: Adam Clague. Merit Award, "28th Best of America National Exhibition"
(2018) K Space Contemporary , Corpus Christi, TX, 2018 Third Coast National Biennial. Juror: Suzanne Weaver, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the San Antonio Museum of ART
(2018) Plein Air Magazine, 7th Annual PleinAir Salon Art Competition Dec/Jan
(2018) Gallery North, Edmonds, WA, 2018 Small Works Juried Show
(2018) Art Scene Today, Anima>Animus>Animal
(2012) Windsor Whitney Biennial, Venice, Italy
(2012) Billboard Art Project, Albany, NY and Atlanta, GA. Curator: Claire Accardo.
(2012) Light Space & Time Gallery, Special Recognition Award, "Animals Art Exhibition"
(2012) Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, MA, "With a Little Help from our Friends"
(2012) Narrows Center for the Arts, Fall River, MA, "Petroleum Paradox"
(2012) Windsor-Whitney Biennial
(2012) Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, MA, "Rough Trade"
(2011) Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, MA, "With a Little Help from our Friends"
(2011) SamsønProjects, Boston, MA, "Chain Letter Exhibition"
(2010–2012) Galatea Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts
(2010) Scollay Square Gallery, City Hall, Boston, MA, "East Boston Artists"
(2010) ApollinaireGallery, Chelsea, MA, "Mammals"
(2009) Bunker Hill Community College Art Gallery, Boston, MA, "Art Gone Green"
(2009) Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, MA, "Boston Biennial"
(2009) Salem Arts Association Gallery, Salem, MA, "Blush"
(2008) "ConnecticutWomen Artists 19th Annual Open Juried Competition", John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT
(2008) West Hartford Art League, West Hartford, CT, "CT+ 5"
(2000) ABCNo Rio, New York, NY
(1997) Out of the Blue Gallery, Cambridge, MA
(1997) Gallery of Social and Political Art, Cambridge, MA
(1989) Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX, "New Art: Paintings from New York, Texas, California"
(1988–1989) Harris Gallery, Houston, TX
(1989) Arte Moderno Gallery, San Antonio, TX, "Renderings"
(1988) 110 Broadway Gallery, San Antonio, TX, "Interpretations"
(1988) Blue Collar Gallery, San Antonio, TX, "Charles Field, John Alberts and Shelah Horvitz"
(1988) Galleria, University of Texas at San Antonio, "Five Texas Woman Artists"
(1987) Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX, "Texas Annual"
(1987) Barnwell Art Center, Shreveport, LA, "S.P.A.R. National Art Exhibition"
(1987) DallasCity Hall, Dallas, TX, "Woman Artists of Three States"
(1987) BlueStar Art Space, San Antonio, TX, "Dead Days"
(1985) Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI, "Ladies of Shalott: A Victorian Masterpiece and its Contexts"
(1985) Women’s Interart Center, New York, NY, "35 Under 35"
(1984) Pompeii Gallery, New York, NY, "Survey of Drawings"

Publications

(2019) Oil Painters of America (OPA) Blog, Horvitz, Shelah. "Finding Your Style," October 28, 2019,
(2016) The Dark Mountain Project, Horvitz, Shelah. “Last, or Earworms in the Wilderness”
(2015) The Dark Mountain Project, Horvitz, Shelah. “The Eumenides”
(2014) The Dark Mountain Project, Horvitz, Shelah. “The Gospel According to the Texas Board of Education”

Solo Exhibitions

2018 - Weld: Heaven and Earth, Weld Pubic Library, Weld, Maine
2017 – Wilderness Edge, Upfront Gallery, Farmington, Maine
2013 – Missing Stories, Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, Massachusetts
2012 – Feral, Galatea Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
2012 – Peace Songs II, Gallery at Spencer Lofts, Chelsea, Massachusetts
2011 – True Love: The Leap of Hanuman, Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, Massachusetts
2011 – The Leap, Kismet Wellness Center, Andover, Massachusetts
2010 – Peace Songs, Galatea Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
1998 – Tyranny and Thoughtcrime, Gallery INSEKT, Boston, Massachusetts

Gallery Representation

2020-present Stone Sparrow NYC, New York, New York
2017–2019 Saatchi Online
2010–2013 Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, Massachusetts
2010–2012 Galatea Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts
1988–1989 Harris Gallery, Houston, Texas
1989 Arte Moderno Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
1988 Blue Collar Gallery, San Antonio, Texas

Selected Media and Academic Coverage

"Artist Reception for Shelah Horvitz at Weld Library," Sun Journal, Monday, August 27, 2018
“Weld artist exhibits ‘Wilderness Edge’ in Farmington,” Franklin Journal, Friday, August 11, 2017
N. DiStefano, "Missing Stories: Artwork by Shelah Horvitz", Atlantic Works Gallery Blog, November 1, 2013
O. Grinde, "From the Mouths of Caves", Massachusetts Wildlife Magazine, 2012: 3:4-10
Soldaat, Romke, “Bouguereau and The Gospel According to T. Rex”, Bouguereau Remastered Blog
Goslow, Brian, “Capsule Previews: November/December 2011," Artscope: New England’s Culture Magazine, Volume 6, Number 5, p. 52
Boston Globe Editor’s Pick, “Shelah Horvitz: Peace Song”
Art New England, “Exhibitions: Openings and events around the region”
B. Aitchison, "Lecture on Lady of Shalott", Muscular Dystrophy Society, by the former Academic Advisor to the American Institute for Foreign Study in London (Moffat, Scotland), 2007
E. Bonessio, “Con te sempre” from Poesie in forma di rosa (Rome, Italy), 2007
B. Laursen. Intranet course on art and literature relevant to Tennyson, Herlufsholm Skole, Herlufsholdm, Denmark, 2007
A. F. Howey, S. R. Reimer, Boydell & Brewer, A Bibliography of Modern Arthuriana (1500-2000). p. 654, 2006
Cover, Feminista Ezine, March 2000
Review of the Lilith Adler exhibition, Lilith Gallery
M. Matsuoka, “The Victorian Web” (Nagoya University, Japan)
E. Goodman, Literature and Gender. New York, New York: Routledge, 1996.
Marie Claire Japon Magazine, “Arthurian Legends in Art”, 3 Mars 1993, No. 124
“Ladies of Shalott”, The English Program, Thames Television, BBC, 1993
“This Teacher Joins with his Students in Some Ironic, Spontaneous Works”, San Antonio Light, May 1, 1988, p.114
J. Gambrell, “Texas: State of theArt," Art in America Magazine, 75:114-52, 1987
“Texas Annual”, Austin American-Statesman, November 16, 1987, p. C6
Asao Densetsu Mangekyo. (Tokyo: Chuokoron-sha, Inc., 1995)
J.T. Harris, “I Have Never Seen a Naked Lady of Shalott”, The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, Fall 1984, p. 76

Education

Private study with Will St. John, 2020
Workshop with Amaya Gurpide, "A Painterly Approach to Portrait Drawing Master Class", Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus, GA, 2019
Private study with Stephen Bauman, 2019-2020
University of Texas at San Antonio, M.F.A. Painting, 1989
Brown University, B.A. English Literature, 1982
University of Massachusetts/Dartmouth, B.S. Computer Science, 1995

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