Kerry Shaw

Currently living in San Clemente, California, Kerry is a large-scale photo based artist, originally from Canada.

With a conceptual approach, she absorbs remembrance into her daily practice with a focus on highly detailed and colorful aesthetics. In 2011, she lost her brother Stuart. This inspired a life-long devotion to creating epic imagery to meditate on and consolidate her loss as well as propel tributes to him into tangible visuals. Her translation of longing into allurement emerge as large scale, often mystically surreal, pigment prints. Her work explores the ever evolving, consequential, perpetual flow of nature and the elaborately beautiful.

Her background as a modern dancer and traditional painter is evident in her elegant, choreographic approach to complicated elements. Her seamless illustrations are made up of often hundreds of images and layers, painted into a distinctly effortless composition.

Kerry’s work was first published in Magenta Foundation’s 2006 Carte Blanche, a book of 200 of Canada’s best photographers. She has since been included perpetual publications of Magenta’s Flash Forward, celebrating the best emerging photographers from Canada, USA and UK.
She had her television debut on Fashion Televisio...

York University, Toronto Honors Bachelor of Fine Arts

Ryerson University, Toronto Dance & Theatre

George Brown College, Toronto Graphic Design + Advertising

2017 "Photography Now" 8' x 12' lobby installation + FCP Gallery, First Canadian Place, Toronto
2017 "Feminas Noche De Proyecciones" with Foto Feminas, Alimentación General Gallery, Buenos Aires2016 “Bad Behaviour” SOFIA [Society of Feminists in Art] Artscape Youngplace, Toronto
2015 “Cuba Gust” Love Art TO, First Canadian Place, Toronto
2012 “Blossom Sunrise” Flash Forward - Outdoor Exhibition, Battery Wharf Harborwalk, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2011 “Drawn To Develop,” Street Kids International Auction, Distillery District Toronto
2010 “Drawn To Develop,” Street Kids International Auction, Distillery District Toronto
2009 Rouge Concept Gallery, Toronto
2009 “Drawn To Develop,” Street Kids International Auction, Distillery District Toronto
2008 “Drawn To Develop,” Street Kids International Auction, Distillery District Toronto
2007 “Rising Exhibition”, Contact Photography Festival, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
2006 Blue Mountain Foundation for the Arts Juror Showcase, Collingwood, Ontario
2006 Apertura Gallery, Toronto
2005 44th Annual Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto
2004 Naked In the House, Bibianne Gallery, Toronto
2004 Outdoor Art Exhibit, Historic Distillery District, Toronto
2004 "On Our Sleeves", Tri...