Resume

Amy Shapiro
amyoilpainter@hotmail.com

EDUCATION
MFA 2006 Painting University of Arizona
BA 2002 Studio Art University of Delaware (cum laude)

Areas of specialization: figurative drawing and painting, mixed media, contemporary art history

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2006-2009
Adjunct Instructor, University of Arizona, Intermediate Painting Fall 2007 and Spring 2008, Beginning through Advanced Painting Summer 2008, Beginning and Intermediate Figure Drawing Summer 2007, Introduction to Figure Drawing Spring 2007 and Fall 2006
2006-2007
Adjunct Instructor, Pima Community College West Campus, Basic Design Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Fall 2006
2004-2006
Teaching Assistant, University of Arizona, Color and Design Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 2005, Fall 2004, Summer 2004 (Instructor of Record)

EXHIBITIONS
2010
"Spring Discourse", Zoe Boutique, Tucson AZ
“Pleasure is All We Seek”, Heart Gallery, SF
“Stories We Tell Ourselves, Gallery TBD, St. Petersburg, FL

2009
“Salon, Platform Gallery, Tucson, AZ
“6th Annual Robot Exchange”, Hotel Congress, Tucson, AZ
“IDKE xi: Drag King Extravaganza”, Dinnerware Gallery, Tucson, AZ
“Forbidden Kingdom”, Dinnerware Gallery, Tucson, AZ
“Creature Comforts”, Candelabra Gallery, Tucson, AZ
“Sweet and Low: Optimism in a Pessimistic Age”, Gallery Arcane, SF
“Continuum”, University of Arizona College of Fine Arts, Tucson, AZ<

2008
“Winter Salon”, Gallery Arcane, San Francisco, CA
“Two person show”, Desert Willow, Tucson, AZ
“big ideas Small Frames”, Dinnerware Contemporary Arts, Tucson, AZ
“Autopoiesis”, Splinter Brothers and Sisters Warehouse, Tucson, AZ
“My Vice”, Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2007
"The Adjunct Faculty Exhibition", Joseph Gross Gallery, Tucson, AZ
“Girls”, Secret Tiger Club, Portland, OR
“Three person show”, Platform Gallery, Tucson, AZ
“Resolutions”, The Monkey Box, Tucson, AZ

2006
"Munny”, Lulubell, Tucson, AZ
“Visions of Independence”, The Monkey Box, Tucson, AZ
“Review”, Platform Gallery, Tucson, AZ
“h2o”, Dinnerware Contemporary Arts, Tucson, AZ
“Can You Burn This?” 36 Chambers, Tucson, AZ “Show and Tell”, Platform Gallery, Tucson, AZ

2005
“Sweet Nothing”, Shane House Gallery, Tucson, AZ
“Second Annual Salon”, Platform Gallery, Tucson, AZ
“Plait”, Platform Gallery, Tucson, AZ
“Piquing the Safe Gaze”, Platform Gallery, Tucson, AZ
“Recuerdos/Remembrances ‘05”, Obsidian Gallery, Tucson, AZ
“Annual Art Auction”, Dinnerware Contemporary Arts, Tucson, AZ
“Arizona Biennial ‘05”, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
“Residual Pull”, Dinnerware Contemporary Arts, Tucson, AZ
“Examined Relations”, Platform Gallery, Tucson, AZ

2004
“First Annual Salon”, Platform Gallery, Tucson, AZ
“Daydreams Desired”, Platform Gallery, Tucson, AZ
“No One’s in the Basement”, Fremont House Gallery, Tucson, AZ
“XXX: for Adults Only”, 11East Ashland IAS, Phoenix, AZ
“Girls against Boys”, DC Arts Center, Washington, DC

2003
“Some Small Desire”, Source Theater, Washington, DC
“Floors, Walls, Ceilings”, Fremont House Gallery, Tucson, AZ
“Lady Space Brain Mind-Meld” MOCA DC, Washington, DC

2002
“Remember to Call: Portraits of Post-Adolescent Anxiety”, Newark, DE
“Chautauqua Student Show”, Chautauqua, NY
“Privileged Ennui”, Chautauqua, NY

2001
“Emerging Artists”, Art House, Newark, DE
“Not Yet Famous Artists Revealed”, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

PUBLICATIONS
2009
“Amy Shapiro of Winelord Derby Goddess Drummer”, interview, November 27, Tom Tom Magazine
“NoBunny”, featured article, photographer, issue #53 Razorcake
“Bizarre Topographies: Toward a New Language,” exhibition essay author, Gallery Arcane, San Francisco

2008
“Cramhole 2”, Independent comic, contributing illustrator

2007
"Art all around," October 4, Tucson Weekly
“Cramhole!”, Independent comic, illustrator
“Going, going, gone,” October 13, Arizona Daily Star (image)

2006
“Visions of Independence”, July 29, Tucson Weekly
2005
“Arizona’s Best: TMA’s Biennial ’05”, Tucson Weekly
2004
“Mass Openings”, Tucson Weekly
“At DC Arts Center, Works Without a Hint of Pink or Blue”, The Washington Post

GRANTS/AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2004
Residency at Vermont Studio Center
2003
Sarnoff Award, University of Arizona
2002
Residency at Chautauqua School of Art
Graduated BA Cum Laude with Distinction, University of Delaware
2001
Eugene and Catherine Melk Award, University of Delaware
Finley’s Shoppe and Gallery Award, Newark, Delaware
Scholarship for study at Soka University