Rene Shoemaker

René Shoemaker is a master silk painter, born in New York City, who maintains studios in Athens, GA, USA and Aubusson, France. Spanning four decades and embracing a variety of mediums, her artwork highlights a sense of place while capturing the ways spaces work together and how people inhabit and interact with those spaces. René has exhibited in museums in Georgia, Mississippi, and Paris and in galleries and public spaces in Georgia, New York, the UK, and France. She teaches and speaks on silk painting and in 2020 she received a Fiber Forward Focus Fellowship from AIR Serenbe in Georgia.

BFA 1980, University of Georgia, Athens, GA USA
MLIS 1993, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC USA

Museum exhibitions:

Lauren Rogers Museum, Laurel, MS USA, 2019
"Magical Landscapes: An Artist’s Fusion of Japanese Ukiyo-e Prints and Laurel’s Architectural Heritage,"
Solo exhibit

Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA, USA, 2015-16
"Discovering the Chattahoochee Valley: Silk paintings by René Shoemaker"
Solo exhibit

Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2019
Cosmopolis #2 (with a unique opportunity to share Shoemaker's silk painting in an installation piece by Simón Vega: Archipiélago de Intercambio)

Art spaces:
Lyndon House Arts Center, Athens, GA, USA, 2018-2019
"Call & Response: Works by Judy Bales + René Shoemaker"

La Mairie, Felletin, France, 2018
"Découvrir: Felletin et ses villages"

Galerie AM'Carta, Aubusson, France, 2018

Ciné Arthaus, Athens, GA, USA 2018
"La Rentrée"

La Mairie, Felletin, France, 2017
"La memoire et le lieu: Exposition de peintures sur soie de René Shoemaker"