GAIL SHAW- CLEMONS
3012 P. St. S.E. Washington, DC 20020
gshawclemons@gmail.com 646-623-8765
website: gailshaw-clemons.com

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SELECTED EDUCATION:
1979 -76 BFA. Master of Fine Arts, Printmaking/drawing, University of Maryland,

SELECTED EXPERIENCE:
2016/Present Bowie State University, Md., Adjunct Professor
1992 /2015 United Nations International School, New York, NY, Art Instructor
1981/1992 The Maret School Washington DC, Art Instructor
1979/1980 University of Maryland, MD, Art Instructor
1978/1979 Duke Ellington School of the Arts Washington, DC, P/T Art Instructor

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION:
2024 Angie Newman Johnson Gallery, Alexandria Virginia
2023 “Over the Rainbow: color, value, form” Pyramid Atlantic Art Center MD
2023 “I’m Done” Southern Area Aquatics Complex Brandywine MD
2022 “Open Studio” StableArts Washington DC
2017 “Retrospective” Iona Gallery Wash. DC
2013 “Harlem Open Studio” Magnolia Mansion, NY
2009 “The Color Dance” Columbia University, NY. 2005
“Family” Artist in Residence, Odeshog, Sweden 2005”
“Dust to Dust and Somewhere In-between” Ballycastle, Republic of Ireland
2003 “Indigo: Artist in Residence, Odeshog, Sweden
2002 “Indigo” Cinque Gallery, Soho, New York
1997 “Influences” Gallery Heda, Odeshog, Sweden
1990 “The O Street Gallery, Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
1981 “Landsburg Building Window Exhibition”, Washington DC.
1979 “Masters’ Thesis Exhibition” University of Maryland MD

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION:
2024. “Hidden Treasures”, The Goldstein Treasury Building MD.
2024 “5 th Biennial Maryland Regional Juried Art Exhibition”, UMGC MD
2023 “DC Art Now,” Art Bank Finalist Exhibition, DC Commission, Wash, DC 2023
“Color + Form + Blackstraction” Honfleur Gallery Wash, DC
2022 “Prints with Paths to Color” Governors Island NY, NY
2022 “MASHUP” Pyramid Atlantic Hyattsville, MD
2022 “Interlude Exhibition” Kreeger Museum Washington DC
2022 “Resilience. Resistance. & Remembrance” Maryland Institute of Art
2021 “Oh What a relief” The Phillips Collection @ The ARC Washington DC
2021 “9 Artists 9 Months 9 Perspectives: Birth of 2020 Visions NY, NY
2021 “9 Artists 9 Months 9 Perspectives: Birth of 2020 Visions Hyattsville Md.
2021 “DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Exhibition
2021 “David Driskell and His Students Exhibition, Univ. Of Maryland

2020 “Wells International Foundation Exhibition, Virtual
2020 “Phillips Collection Instagram Exhibition, Washington DC
2020 “Vote” Pyramid Atlantic, Hyattsville, MD
2020 “Abstraction”” Hilo University Hilo Hawaii
2019 “Prints & Artists: WD Printmaking Workshop American University
2019 “Crossing Boundaries and Breaking Borders: American Univ. Museum
2019 “Homegrown” DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
2019 “MASHUP” Pyramid Atlantic Art Center
2018 “Member’s Exhibition, Bob Blackburn Printmaking Studio NYC
2017 “We Who Believe in Freedom, Edison Gallery, Wash. D.C.
2016 “Carnival: Celebrations of the African Diaspora, Edison Gallery Wash DC
2015 “Finding a way out of no way” Banneker Douglass Museum MD
2012 “ECHOES: A Time to Keep & A Time to Let Go” Art in Flux N.Y.
2011 “The Art of Giving Back” The School of Visual Arts, NY
2009 “The Sister’s Three” Sharon Simmons Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007 “Keep the Change” Nathan Cummings Foundation, NY
2006 “10th Annual National Black Fine Art Show, Hatch-Billops Collection
2004 “Creating Their Own Image”, Parsons School of design, NY

SELECTED AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND RESIDENCIES:
2024 Tamarind Institute Collaborative Residency Program, New Mexico
2023 DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Public Project Art Bank
2023 DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowship
2022 DC Commission on the Arts and humanities Artist Fellowship
2022 The Arts Center at Governors Island, Residency
2021 NYC Remarque printmaking residency, Albuquerque, NM
2019 Selected for a studio at Stable Studio in NOMA. Washington, DC.
2019 Pyramid Atlantic, Key Holder Residency, Hyattsville MD
2018 DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowship
2018 DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Public Project Art Bank
2016 DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Public Project Art Bank
2015 Commissioned Mural, Banneker Douglass Museum Annapolis Md
2014 Conference travel award, International School of Amsterdam, Netherlands
2004 Artist in Residence Tougaloo Art Colony Instructor, Tougaloo, Mississippi
2013 Artist in Residence, Soaring Gardens, Pa
2013 Residence Tougaloo Art Colony Instructor, Tougaloo,
2013 Artist in Residence, Soaring Gardens, Pa
2012 Artist in Residence, Soaring Gardens, Pa
2005 Artist in Residence, Ballycastle, Republic of Ireland
2005 Artist in Residence, Odeshog, Sweden
2003 Artist in Residence, Odeshog, Sweden.
2002 International Baccalaureate Conference travel award Madrid, Spain
1997 Artist in Residence, Odeshog, Sweden
1994 International Baccalaureate Conference travel award Hamburg, Germany
1989 DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (Program Grant)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

2023 Article by Mark Jenkins Washington Post
2019 “Prints & Artists: WD Printmaking Workshop 1970-Present
2019 “Crossing Boundaries and Breaking Borders: DMV Printmaking Catalogue
2019 “Homegrown” Catalogue, by Claude Elliott
2013 “Emancipation” Catalogue DCAC Wash. DC
2013 “Old Money” Catalogue Melinda Graphics
2004 “A History of African American Women Artist” Oxford Univ. Press
2002 “Indigo” Catalogue, Cinque Gallery Soho, NY
2000 “Creating and Understanding Drawings” Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
1997 “Correspondenten” newspaper/Odeshog Sweden
1995 “Gumbo Ya Ya” An Anthology of African American Artist
1992 “Gathered Visions” Catalogue, Smithsonian Institute D.C.
1983 “Surrealism and the African-American Artist” Catalogue by Thurlow Tibbs

PERMANENT COLLECTION:

Tamarind Institute Print Collection. Kathy
Caraccio Collection, Printmaking Studio NY
Remarque Printmaking Workshop NM
Bob Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
American University WD Print Archives
DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Bob Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
American University Print Archives
DC Commission Art Bank, Washington, DC
Georgetown University Library, Washington, DC
Martha’s Table, Washington, DC
The David Driskell Center College Park, Md.
Iona Senior Services Washington, DC
D C Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washingtonia Collection
Banneker-Douglass Museum Annapolis, Md.
Ballinglen Arts Foundation and Museum Republic of Ireland
The Library of Congress, Print Collection, Washington, DC
Milwaukee Power Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Bob Blackburn Printmaking Studio New York, NY
WD Printmaking Studio, Wash., DC
Billops-Hatch Collection New York, NY
The Maret School, Wash., DC
Tougaloo College Tougaloo, Mississippi