Eric Shaw

I decided I’d be an artist when I was four.

In grade school, I drew constantly, and, in high school, I had a special relationship with my art teacher, spending weekends with him and accepting special projects that came with pay.

In college, I painted with some focus at Willamette University, then finished my BA at the University of California, Santa Cruz. (A number of my college paintings were stolen, and that flattered.) I went on to do a 5th Year Graduate Certificate at UCSC.

I had a host of potent teachers in those years—Robert Hess, Hardy Hanson, Patrick Ahearn, and Eduardo Carrillo, among them.

While at UC Santa Cruz, I spent a summer working as a somewhat-confused boy-Friday for the art historian, Nan Rosenthal, in New York—who’d undertaken a monograph on Robert Rauschenberg.

While claiming her drycleaning, repainting her table-lamps, and visiting Rberg’s studio, I was deeply influenced by the artist’s work, and that of his foil, Jasper Johns.

Nan stuck our noses deep into both artists’ careers as we studied with her.

My BA focused drawing and painting. My 5th Year Certificate concerned itself with painting and printmaking (the school had no MFA). I spent the next two years painting canvases, while painting ho...

-5th Year Certificate, Studio Art, 1987
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ
SANTA CRUZ, California
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-BA, Studio Art, 1986
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ
SANTA CRUZ, California
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-MA, Asian Studies, 2011
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES
SAN FRANCISCO, California
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-MA, Special Education, 2000
WESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY
SILVER CITY, New Mexico
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-MA, Religious Studies, 1995
UNITED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota

Visual Art Exhibitions

November, 2023 - Glamor and Estates, (Group Show), Cute DFW, Dallas, Texas, paintings.

November, 2023 - Stories, (with Kasey Short), Short Event Space, Dallas, Texas, paintings

January - February, 2023 - Dezigned, (Group Show), The Beeman Hotel, Dallas, Texas, paintings.

August, 1997 - Uplifting Indescretions, Crashing Thunder Gallery, Galllup, New Mexico, drawings and paintings.

August, 1995 - Lazy Parents, Crashing Thunder Gallery, Galllup, New Mexico, drawings, and paintings

June, 1992 - A Dozen Pork Quartets, Awake and Afraid, Minneapolis, Minnesota, paintings.

December, 1989 - Tall Machinations, Rennet Gallery, Portland, Oregon, paintings.

June, 1987 - Hard Rhymes, Zachary’s Restaurant, Santa Cruz, California, paintings and woodblock prints.

May, 1986 - Fifth Year Certificate Exhibition, (Group Show), University of California, Santa Cruz, paintings, woodblock prints, and hand-printed lithographs.

May, 1985 - Gestol Grey, University of California, Santa Cruz, drawings, paintings, woodblock prints, and hand-printed lithographs.