Bio

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