Selected Exhibitions
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Exhibition (jurors: Lucy Byatt, Danie Mello and Isabel Seligman), Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, and travelling. 2022-2023
Aids Benefit Invitational, Krakow-Witkin Gallery, Boston, annually 2002-2022
- A Putative Life of Hannah Arendt symposium and exhibition, Eli Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies,Boston University, May 2018
- Seeking Sanctuary (collaborative work including music, spoken word and community art-making with Palaver Strings and John Powell) Boston Center for the Arts Cyclorama, 2018
- Placemaking Objects, (curated by Jennifer Hall), Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, 2016
- Putative Portraits of Great European Thinkers, Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University, 2014
- Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, New York Center For Book Arts, travelling, 2013-16
- Quand les Livres SʼAmusent, Musée de l’Imprimerie de Lyon, France, 2012
- Amalgam and Another Kind of Monster, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, 2010
- The Boston Drawing Project: Ten Years On, Carroll and Sons, Boston, 2009
- People and Animals, (solo exhibition) Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA, 2009
- The Book As Art, 25th Anniversary Invitational Exhibition, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, 2006, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2009
- The Drawing Show, (Juror: Bill Arning), Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, 2002
- The Drawing Show, (Juror: Ellen Gallagher), Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, 2000
- Society of Illustrators Annual, Society of Illustrators, New York, 2001
- Made in Massachusetts, (Juror: Robert Andrew Parker), Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA 1999
- Changing Pages, Touring Exhibition, Collins Gallery, Glasgow, 1998
- Contemporary Canadian Bookworks, Gallery at the Embassy, Tokyo, 1995
- Worse Than Animals: Meditations on Racist Violence, Artists Foundation Gallery, Boston, 1993 (co-curator)
- The Art of the Book, National Library, Ottawa, 1993
Collections
- Brown University
- Boston Public Library
- Bucknell University
- Evergreen State College
- Florida Atlantic University (Miami)
- Fogg Museum of Art
- Harvard University Fine Arts Library
- J. Paul Getty Museum
- Jerusalem Print Workshop
- Messiah College
- National Museum of Women in the Arts
- Newark Public Library
- Newberry Library
- New York Public Library
- Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (Oslo)
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Temple University
- University of California (Los Angeles)
- University of Colorado at Boulder
- University of Delaware
- University of Iowa
- University of Louisville
- University of Missouri (Columbia)
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Texas (Austin)
- Rochester Institute of Technology
- Scripps College
- Virginia Commonwealth University
- Walker Art Center
- Wellesley College
- Yale University
Illustrations
- New Yorker Magazine
- New York Times Book Review
- Washington Post
- Harvard Magazine
- Boston Lyric Opera
Grants/Awards:
- Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, shortlisted, 2022
- Harvard Public Realm Flexible Fund Grant recipient in 2019 and 2020
Received grant to create, maintain and grow a network of pollinator gardens in Lower Allston, mapped and marked by metal icons. Founded a team of artists, gardeners, school children and community members to work together on this ongoing project. - Women’s Studio Workshop, Artist Book Award, 1994
Received Artist in Residence grant to attend residency and produce an artist’s book
Residencies
- Centre Pompadour, Abbeville, France, 2018
- Palette People, Kerala, India, 2017
- Carpe Diem, Jodphur, India, 2017
- Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY, 1995-1996
Selected Bibliography
- Coleman, Sandy, Are We Worse Than Animals?, Boston Globe, 7/4/93
- Hauth, M, Graveurs de Boston, lʼAlsace, 2/28/90
- Holland, Christian, Studios@35 at the BCA, Big Red and Shiny #55, Dec.2007, http://bigredandshiny.org/11712/studios35-at-the-bca/
- Nyarts.com, 4/02
- Sherman, Mary, Drawing The Line, Boston Herald, 5/7/00
- Stapen, Nancy, Artists Foundation Show Explores Racial Violence, Boston Globe, 7/18/93
- Zank, Michael, A PUTATIVE (PRIVATE) LIFE OF HANNAH ARENDT: BIO- PORTRAITURE AS PERFORMANCE IN THE WORK OF MIRIAM SHENITZER, Journal of Performance Philosophy, Vol 5 No 1, 2019 https://www.performancephilosophy.org/journal/article/view/272/357