Curriculum Vitae: Dorothy Bury Shaw

Summary

2024 - current
Resident artist at Water Street Studios, Batavia, Illinois in Studio #19

2023 - 2024

Shared a studio/gallery space with two other artists, Rebecca Russow and Jennifer Starchvill, on the 4th floor at Bridgeport Art Center in Chicago, Illinois

2014 – current
Full-time fine artist, based in Downers Grove, Illinois

1994 – 2014   
Designer/Proprietor of Elderbury Interiors, Geneva and Downers Grove, Illinois

1975-1978      
Freelanced as an editorial illustrator, Chicago, Illinois

1974 - 1979

Art Instructor at the Union League Boy Club, Chicago, Illinois

1972-1976      
Attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Art, Chicago, Illinois

1954               
Born in Chicago, Illinois

Select Solo and Group Exhibitions

2026

• Bridgeport Art Center - Pictures of You - Chicago, IL

2025

• St. Charles Arts Council - Winter Light - St. Charles, IL

• Elmhurst Art Museum - Members Show - EAG Gallery - Elmhurst, IL

• Yoga Among Friends - DGAG Art Installation - Downers Grove, IL

• Water Street Studios - Members Juried Group Exhibit - Batavia, IL

• Downers Grove Public Library - Midwest Collage Society Group Show - Downers Grove, IL

• DuPage Art League - BEST OF THE BEST, Award Winners 2024 - Wheaton, IL

• Bridgeport Art Center - Annual Art Competition - Chicago, IL

• Naperville Art League - Inside, Outside Juried Exhibit - Naperville, IL

• Downers Grove Public Library - DGAG group show - Downers Grove, IL

2024

• Elmhurst Art Museum - Members Show - EAG Gallery - Elmhurst, IL

• Woodridge Public Library - DGAG Members Show - Woodridge, IL

• Yoga Among Friends - DGAG Art Installation - Downers Grove, IL

• Burnham Harbor Yacht Club - SOLO SHOW - Beyond the Mist - Chicago, IL

• Water Street Studios - Telling Her Story - Batavia, IL

• Elmhurst Art Museum - Later Impressions, CAVA - Elmhurst, IL

• DuPage Art League - BEST OF THE BEST, Award Winners 2023 - Wheaton, IL

2023

• Bloomingdale Museum - SOLO SHOW - Story Lines, Art and Verse - Bloomingdale, IL

• Elmhurst Art Museum - Inspired by Warhol - EAG Gallery - Elmhurst, IL

• Mayslake Peabody Mansion - Nature’s Ambiguities - Oak Brook, IL

• Indian Prairie Public Library - DGAG Members Show - Darien, IL

• Yoga Among Friends - DGAG Art Installation - Downers Grove, IL

• Bridgeport Art Center - CAVA Members Show - Chicago, IL

• Mayslake Peabody Mansion - CAVA Winter Show - Oak Brook, IL

• Epiphany Center for the Arts - Happiness Show, CAVA - Chicago, IL

• Chicago Cultural Center - Later Impressions, CAVA - Chicago, IL

• DuPage Art League - BEST OF THE BEST, Award Winners 2022 - Wheaton, IL

• North Central College Gallery -Anawim Arts Exhibit - Naperville, IL

2022

• Elmhurst Art Museum - Members Show - EAG Gallery - Elmhurst, IL

• Indian Prairie Public Library - DGAG Members Show - Darien, IL

• Yoga Among Friends - DGAG Artist Gallery - Downers Grove, IL

• Glen Ellyn Public Library - SOLO SHOW - Nature, the Soul’s Landscape - Glen Ellyn, IL

• Addison Center for the Arts - SOLO SHOW - Line by Line, Art & Verse of Dorothy Bury Shaw - Addison, IL

• Beverly Art Center - Collective Awakenings - Chicago, IL

• Bloomingdale Museum - Attention to Detail - Bloomingdale, IL

• Mexican Counsulate - Karla Wong curator, LGBT art and artists - Chicago, IL

2021

• Elmhurst Art Museum - Engaging Frida - EAG Gallery - Elmhurst, IL

• Bloomingdale Museum - Archeological Imagination - Bloomingdale, IL

• Indian Prairie Public Library - Between The Lines (Midwest Collage Society) - Darien, IL

• DuPage Art League - BEST OF THE BEST, Award Winners 2020- Wheaton, IL

2020

• Elmhurst Art Museum - Members Show - EAG Gallery - Elmhurst, IL

• Lesley Wolf Gallery - Later Impressions, CAVA - Chicago, IL

• LaGrange Art League - Member Show - LaGrange, IL

• Mayslake Peabody Mansion - Our Storied Paths, Book Club Artists - Oak Brook, IL

• Vogt Art Center - Compendiums of Curiousities, MWCS - Tinley Park, IL

2019

• Elmhurst Art Museum - Members Show - EAG Gallery - Elmhurst, IL

• Downers Grove Public Library - Ekphrastic Art & Poetry Event - Downers Grove, IL

• Bridgeport Art Center - CAVA Members Show - Chicago, IL

• Woodridge Public Library - Midwest Collage Society Show - Woodridge, IL

• Mayslake Peabody Mansion - BEST OF THE BEST, Award Winners 2018 - Oak Brook, IL

• NSAL Gallery - Forgotten Illinois, CAVA Show - Winnetka, IL

• LaGrange Art League - Breaking the Ice - LaGrange, IL

• Old Courthouse Gallery - Identity, curated by J&K Isaacson - Woodstock, IL

• If These Walls Could Talk Gallery - Portals, Book Club Artists - Aurora, IL

2018

• Woodridge Public Library - Anything Goes - DGAG - Woodridge, IL

• St. Andrews Church Gallery - Artist Showcase - DGAG - Downers Grove, IL

• Bloomingdale Museum - SOLO SHOW - Musings - Bloomingdale, IL

• Beverly Art Center - CAVA Members Show - Chicago, IL

• Downers Grove Public Library - Open Doors, DGAG Members - Downers Grove, IL

• Walford Galleries, Wheaton College - BEST OF THE BEST, Award Winners 2017 - Wheaton, IL

• Art Prize - Annual Art Competition - Grand Rapids, MI

• Tallgrass Gallery - Heartland, group show - Park Forest, Illinois

• Indian Prairie Library - Artist in Residence SOLO SHOW - Darien, IL

• Freeport Art Museum - If You Only Knew - Freeport, IL

2017   

• Chicago Cultural Center – Remnants & Remembrances – Chicago, IL

• Bloomingdale Museum – Off the Beaten Path – Bloomingdale, IL

• Old Court House Gallery - Adam & Eve, the Beauty and Loss of Innocence – Woodstock, IL

• Mayslake Peabody Mansion – Best of the Best – Oak Brook, IL

• Du Page Art League – Heart – Wheaton, IL

• Brigantine Gallery – Art & Poetry Event – Downers Grove, IL

• If These Walls Could Talk – Portals – Aurora, IL

• Downers Grove Public Library - Some Like it Hot – Downers Grove, IL

• LaGrange Public Library - Art Showcase - LaGrange, IL

• Indian Prairie Public Library - Fall Into Fall, Midwest Collage Society - Darien, IL

• Mayslake Peabody Mansion - Later Impressions, CAVA - Oak Brook, IL

• Manhattan Arts - HERstory, online exhibition - New York, NY

2016   

• Benedictine University – We Are CAVA – Lisle, IL

• Bloomingdale Museum – Attention to Detail – Bloomingdale, IL

• Mayslake Peabody Mansion – 100 Year Anniversary, Du Page Forest Preserves – Oak Brook, IL

• La Grange Art League – Sailor’s Delight -  La Grange, IL

• Du Page Art League, - BEST OF THE BEST, Award Winners 2015 d- Wheaton, IL

• Woodridge Public Library – Annual Exhibit, sponsored by the Downers Grove Artists’ Guild  -  Woodridge, IL

• The Brigantine Gallery, Downers Grove, IL

• AWA, American Women in Art - Spring Exhibition – AWA online exhibition

• Plymouth Place Gallery - group show - LaGrange, IL

2015   

• The David Adler Center for the Arts – Observations & Reflections – Libertyville, IL

• The Brigantine Gallery, –Exhibit, sponsored by the Downers Grove Artists’ Guild -  Downers Grove, IL

• Next Gallery – National Exhibit of Select Artists - St. Charles, IL

• Woodridge Public Library – Annual Exhibit, sponsored by the Downers Grove Artists’ Guild  -  Woodridge, IL

• La Grange Art League – Juried Exhibit - La Grange, IL

• Downers Grove Public Library – Annual Exhibit, Downers Grove Artists’ Guild  -  Downers Grove, IL

• Creek Gallery – National Juried Exhibit -, Crystal Lake, IL

• National University of Health Sciences – Juried Exhibit -  Lombard, IL

• ArtFlash at the Arterie Gallery  - Select Award Winning Artists - Naperville, IL

• Mayslake Peabody Mansion – BEST OF THE BEST, Award Winners 2014 – Oak Brook, IL

2014   

Woodridge Public Library – Annual Exhibit, sponsored by the Downers Grove Artists’ Guild - Woodridge, IL