EDUCATION
M.F.A. San Francisco Art Institute, 1999
B.F.A. San Francisco Art Institute, 1989
PUBLIC ART COMMISSION
2017 Permanent Installation for the San Franisco International Airport Gate Room G-95
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2018 Cloned, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
2015 Golden State, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
2015 Golden, B. Sakata Garo Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2014 Heavy Metal, San Marco Gallery, Dominican University, San Rafael, CA
2014 The Exalted Landscape, San Francisco International Airport, Terminal 2
2012 Landscape Update, Gallery, 16, San Francisco, CA
2012 Nuggets, B. Sakata Garo Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2009 (Auto)biography, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
2009 Self, Minshar For Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2008 Pretense, Jason Rulnick Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Paint/Sculpture/Landscape/Architecture-New Photographic Work, B. Sakata Garo Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2007 Alice Shaw: A Group Show, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
2004 New Work, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
2002 Duplicate, Quotidian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 Dreams and Harsh Realities, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1998 New Work, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1992 New Work, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Shaw & Co., curated by Griff Williams, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
2019 FAULTLine, Bartolini Gallery, San Rafael, CA
2018 FAULTLine, Toby Gallery, Point Reyes Station, CA
2018 Alien Artifacts, HIT Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 Witness, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA. curated by Scott Hewicker and Cliff Hengst
2017 Esho Funi, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
2016 Awe Lab, Exhibition and Programming at the Storefront Lab, San Francisco, CA
2015 Play: Process, Activism, Subversion, San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery, SF, CA
2015 Retrospective-Paule Anglim’s Artists-Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014 Fertile Ground: Art and Community in California, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
2014 Racial Imaginary, Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont, CA
2013 The Long Conversation, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 Ideation by Chance, Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO
2012 Snow Dreams, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011 Shaw Show, B. Sakata Garo Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2010 100 Records Project, curated by Sonny Smith, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA, Okay Mt. Gallery, Austin, TX, and Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Siege, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA. Curated by Lauren Davies.
2010 San Francisco Plays Itself: Part 1, 35th Anniversary Show, SFCamerawork, San Francisco, CA
2010 Figure, B. Sakata Garo Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2009 All Good Things, Mission 17, San Francisco, CA
2009 Gold Rush: Artist as Prospector, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
2009 Sisyphus Office, curated by Jonn Herschend, Houston, TX
2008 Connect/Disconnect, Gaddis Geeslin Gallery, San Houston State University, Huntsville, TX
2008 Gold Rush: Artist as Prospector, The Cuty Museum of Ljubljana, Vzigalica Gallery, Lijubljana, Slovenia
2008 Gold Rush; Artist as Prospector, Galerie Op-Nord, Stuttgart, Germany
2008 Numbers Game, Rhodes & Fetcher, San Franicisco, CA. With Packard Jennings, Seth Lower, and Lee Walton.
2008 Strange Habit, I Space, Chicago, IL. With Shane Huffman, Steven Husby, Emily Kennerk, Curtis Mann.
2007 Friends and Artists, B. Sakata Garo Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2006 Conversations: Marcel Dzama and Alice Shaw, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Photo Books Now, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA
2003 A Sure Thing, Spanganga Art Space, San Francisco, CA
2001 Jess Hillard: An Undying Fascination and Love for All AnimalsEspecially the Cute Ones, SF Arts Commission Gallery. Curated by Harrell Fletcher.
2000 Generations II, B. Sakata Garo Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2000 Multiple Sensations, Included in the Perogi 2000 Flat Files, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
1999 The Flexible Density of Time, Four Walls Project, San Francisco, CA
1994 The Family Seen, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
1993 Under Age: Photographs of Children, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Curated by Sandra Philips.
1991 American Seen: Contemporary Photography, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
APPEARANCES AND EVENTS
2020 Behind the Surface: Seeing Beyond What Your Eyes See, (Series) Minnesota Street Project’s IGTV
2017 Fake News Room, Curated by Jim Goldberg in conjuction with Larry Sultan’s retrospective, SFMOMA
2017 Random Reading, Programming at FraenkelLAB, San Francisco, CA
2017 Portfolio Review, SFCamerawork, San Francisco, CA
2016 Color Organist, Reading at Gallery 16, SF, CA. Organized by Scott Hewicker. Including: Kevin Killian, Dodie Bellamy, Colter Jacobson, Linda Geary, Rebeca Bollinger, Cliff Hengst, and more.
NOMINATIONS
2014, 18, 19 Nomination for the SFMOMA SECA Award
2018 Nominated for the TOSA Award. Minnesota Street Project. SF, CA
CURATION
2018 Project Projection, SFCamerawork, San Franicisco, CA
GRANTS
2002 ArtCoucil Grant, San Francisco (now Artadia, New York, NY)
1992 Marin Arts Council Individual Artist Grant, Fellowship in Photography, San Rafael, CA
AWARDS
1997 1st Place: Visions of Excellence Award. Sponsored by Mumm Cuvee and The San Francisco Art Institute. Honorary Chair-Annie Leibowitz. Juried by Sandra Philips, Jeffrey Frankel, Linda Connor, and Julian Okwa.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Mills College, 2017-2019, Adjunct Faculty, Beginning Black and White Photography, Contemporary Photographic Practice II, and graduate tutoritals
California College of the Arts, 2006, 2015-2020, Adjunct Faculty, Color Photography, Investigations 1 (Methods and Materials), Tools 2 (Digital Photographic Practices), and Investigations 3 (Process, Practice, and Production), Junior Seminar, Senior Tutorials, and Graduate Tutorials
San Francisco Art Institute, 2003/08-17, Adjunct Faculty, Humor and Photography, Beginning Black and White Photography, Color Photography, Digital Color Photography, Photographing the Invisible, PreCollege, The Constructed Photograph, Graduate Seminars, and Graduate Tutorials
Diablo Valley College, 2009-2016, Adjunct Faculty, Beginning and Intermediate Black and White Photography
Dominican University, 2006, Adjunct Faculty, Digital Photography, Fall Semester
San Francisco State University, 2002/06/08/12, Adjunct Faculty, Color Photography, Spring/Fall Semester 2002, Advanced Black and White Photography, Fall 2006, Black and White Photography, Spring, 2008, Black and White Photo 2, Fall 2012
University of California at Santa Cruz, 2001-2005, Adjunct Faculty, Color Photography, one quarter per academic year
University of California at Davis, 2000-2003, Adjunct Faculty, Beginning and Intermediate Black and White Photography
University of California at Berkeley, 2000-2003 Adjunct Faculty, Black and White Photography I and Photo As An Art Form, Summer Sessions
Academic Study Association, 1999, Instructor, Stanford University, Summer Session
Private Instructor, 1999, Black and White Photography Printing Techniques for Berry Levinson, Film Director/Producer
PROFESIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008-2011 Advisory Committee Board Member, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
2004-2005 Board Member-Fundraising and Artist Selection Committee, SF Arts Commission Gallery
2000-2007 Artist’s Assistant to Ann Chamberlain, Public/Installation Artist
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2018 PhotoEye@NVC, Janice E. & Bernard Charlup Endowment Lecture Series, Napa Valley College, CA
2016 Oxbow School, Napa, CA
2003 PhotoAlliance Lecture Series, San Francisco Art Institute, SF, CA
COLLECTIONS
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Sophia Coppola, Lance and Rima Acord, David and Mary Robinson, Robert Mailer Anderson, Geof Nunberg, Rena Bransten, di Rosa Foundation, Lynn Hershman, Roselyn Swig, Robin and Geoffrey Strawbridge
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
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