Biography
LAUREN SHAW received her MFA in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design where she studied with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. She is Associate Professor at Emerson College, where she has been teaching photography for 36 years. She is Co- founder of New England Women in Photography, and Co-chaired the National Conference in 1997. She is the recipient of two National Endowment Regional Grants and ten Emerson College Faculty Advancement Fund grants. She was awarded the Excellence in Photographic Teaching Award from the Santa Fe Center for Photography, 2004. Her work has been exhibited widely throughout the United States and is in photographic collections at the Getty Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Fogg Museum, Harvard University, High Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Newark Museum and the Library of Congress. Her exhibition and documentary video, Maine Women: Living on the Land, premiered at the Farnsworth Museum, Rockland Maine on August 7, 2005, and has traveled to ten venues throughout the United States since then. Maine Women; Living on the Land was published in 2005 to accompany the exhibition. Lucy Lippard has written the introduction essay.
Selected Exhibitions
One Woman Show, Maine Women: Living on the Land, Schumacher Gallery, Westover School, Middlebury, Conn., December 7-January 31, 2009
Some Homes: Bates Museum, Hinkley, Maine, May-August, 2008
One Woman Show, Maine Women: Living on the Land,
Nesto Gallery, Milton, Ma. May 6- May 28, 2008
Baldwin Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Jan.22-Feb 28, 2008
Panopticon Gallery, Waltham, Ma. February 8-March 12, 2006
Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, Maine, August 6-November 27, 2005
Selected Publications
Popular Photography, Learn from the Best, September, 2006
Maine Women: Living on the Land, Farnsworth Museum, monograph, essay by Lucy Lippard, 2005
Photo-Eye: Booklist, Publishing Your Photography Book, Extending the Life of Your Project, Mary Virginia Swanson and Darius Himes
Frederic Sommer, Monograph, Philadelphia Museum, 1989
The New American Nudes, Morgan and Morgan, 1988
SX-70 Photographs, Lustrum Press, 1980
Selected Collections
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C
Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Polaroid Collection, Cambridge, MA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
David Ruttenberg Collection, The Art Institute, Chicago, ILL.
Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA