Awards and Residencies
2024 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
Vashon Island Artist Residency, Vashon Island, WA
2023 Minnesota State Arts Board Grant for Creative Individuals
2021 Grand Marais Art Colony, Artists Residency, Duluth, MN
2019 Joan Mitchell Center Artist Residency, New Orleans, LA
2018 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant
St. Cloud State University Faculty Improvement Research Grant
2015 Vermont Studio Center International Artists Residency, Artist Grant, Johnson, VT
2014 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant
2013 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters and Sculptors
St. Cloud State University Faculty Research Grant
2011 Vermont Studio Center International Artists Residency, Artist Grant, Johnson, VT
St. Cloud State University Faculty Research Grant
2010 Red Gate International Artists Residency, Beijing, China
2000 Minnesota Museum of American Art Purchase Award
1999 Minnesota State Arts Board Visual Arts Fellowship
1997 McKnight Foundation Artist Fellowship
1994 Arts Midwest/ NEA Regional Visual Arts Fellowship
1993 Minnesota State Arts Board Visual Arts Fellowship
1991 McKnight Foundation Artist Fellowship
1990 Walker Art Center Open Studio
1989 Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Denler Gallery, The House Is Upside-Down, University of Northwestern, St. Paul, MN
Rosalux Gallery, The Small Parts, Minneapolis, MN
Alice R. Rogers Gallery & Target Gallery, Inhabit, St. John’s University, St. Joseph, MN
2017 Rosalux Gallery, Collapsible Podiums, Minneapolis, MN
2015 The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Near and Far, Minneapolis, MN
Rosalux Gallery, Low Lying Area, Minneapolis, MN
2014 Rosalux Gallery, New Work, Minneapolis, MN
2010 Minnesota Center for Book Arts, New Paintings, Minneapolis, MN
2009 Law Warschaw Gallery, ReGroup, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
2008 Franklin Art Works, New Paintings, Minneapolis, MN
2001 Franklin Art Works, A Sense of Pull, Minneapolis, MN
2000 Detroit Artists Market, Billboard Project, Detroit, MI
1998 Thomas Barry Fine Arts, New Paintings, Minneapolis, MN
1995 Thomas Barry Fine Arts, The Uncertainty Principle, Minneapolis, MN
Kiehle Gallery, St. Cloud State University,The Uncertainty Principle, St. Cloud, MN
1993 Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Lightness and Gravity, Minneapolis, MN
Catherine G. Murphy Gallery, College of St Catherine, New Paintings, St. Paul, MN
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2025 Joan Mitchell Center, History or Premonition, Curated by Nyeema Morgan, New Orleans, LA
2024 Inez Greenberg Gallery, Bloomington Center for the Arts, Used (with Rachel Breen and Heather Cole), Bloomington, MN
2021 Dreamsong Gallery, In Search of Lost Time, Minneapolis, MN
2020 Katherine E. Nash Gallery, The Beginning of Everything; An Exhibition of Drawings, University of MN, Minneapolis, MN
2019 Minneapolis College of Art and Design Gallery, With, Through, and Beyond; 20 Yrs of the Women’s Art Institute, Minneapolis, MN
2018 Gallery 71, Situations (with Paula McCartney, Anne George, and Mary Bergs), Edina, MN
2017 Form + Content Gallery, Unstoppable, Minneapolis, MN
2016 The Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, superusted – The Midwest Biennial, Grand Rapids, MI
Tianjin Art Museum, Harmony: International Contemporary Artists, Tianjin, China
2015 Waiting Room, No Vacancy, Minneapolis, MN
Teda Museum of Contemporary Art, Beyond Boundaries: International Contemporary Artists,Tianjin, China
The Soap Factory, superusted – The Midwest Biennial, Minneapolis, MN
National Gallery of Scotland, Scottish Society of Artists Exhibition, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Homewood Studios, Making Our Mark – The Drawing Project Exhibition, Minneapolis, MN
2014 Track 29 Gallery, Shift (with Laura Stack), Minneapolis, MN 2013
Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Power Lines II, Minneapolis, MN
2013 The Third Place Gallery, Same Difference (with Meng Tang), Minneapolis, MN
2012 Trans-Mongolian : Trans-Siberian Express Train, TransXpress, A moving exhibition taking place on the
route between Beijing, China, Ulan-Bator, Mongolia, and Moscow, Russia.
Austro Sino Arts Program, Left and Right, Beijing, China
Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Rose Colored Glass, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Tychman Shapiro Gallery, Fitting In, Sabes Jewish Community Center, Minneapolis, MN
2010 Plains Art Museum, From Individual to Icon, Fargo, ND
2008 801 Gallery, Kaplow, Belleau, Luehmann, Minneapolis, MN
2007 Weinstein Gallery, Summer, Minneapolis, MN
Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Critical Translations – Art of Social Engagement, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
The Minneapolis Foundation, Layers: Race and Identity, Minneapolis, MN
2006 Phipps Center for the Arts, Prisms - Jews and Arabs, Hudson, WI
Weinstein Gallery, Less Is More, Minneapolis, MN
2005 Weinstein Gallery, Portraits, (with Kelli Connell), Minneapolis, MN
55 Mercer Gallery, Eye Witness (with Christine Baeumler), New York, NY
College of Visual Arts Gallery, From Life – Four Video Artists, St. Paul, MN
2004 Twin Cities Public Television, MNTV: Homegrown Independent Film, St. Paul, MN
Walker Art Center, Women with Vision Film and Video Festival, Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis College of Art and Design Gallery, All the Wiser, Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis Jewish Community Center, In Book Form – Israeli and American Artists, Minneapolis, MN
The Art Space, In Book Form – Israeli and American Artists, Tel Aviv, Israel
2003 Asheville Art Museum, Self and Soul – The Architecture of Intimacy, Asheville, NC
2002 Walker Art Center, Women with Vision Film and Video Festival, Minneapolis, MN
2001 Detroit Artists Market, Body as Metaphor, Detroit, MI
2000 The Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minnesota Biennial, St. Paul, MN
The Maryland Institute, College of Art, Invitational, Baltimore, MD
The Soap Factory, The Deal, Minneapolis, MN
1998 Momenta Art and Greene Naftali Gallery, Momenta Art Benefit, Brooklyn and NYC, NY
Minneapolis College of Art and Design Gallery, New Work – 5 McKnight Artists, Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis College of Art and Design Gallery, MCAD Faculty Exhibition, Minneapolis, MN
1997 The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Shana Kaplow and Shannon Kennedy, Minneapolis, MN
Momenta Art and White Columns, Momenta Art Benefit, Brooklyn and NY, NY
Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Flesh, Minneapolis, MN
College of Visual Arts Gallery, Modular Body, St. Paul, MN
University of Wisconsin/River-Falls Gallery, Three Painters, River Falls, WI
Catherine G. Murphy Gallery, Group, College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN
Steensland Museum, Intentional Irregularities, St, Olaf College, Northfield, MN
1996 Minneapolis College of Art and Design Gallery, The Private Eye, Minneapolis, MN
Katherine Nash Gallery, Figured, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
1995 Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Self as Subject, Minneapolis, MN
1994 Minneapolis College of Art and Design Gallery, MCAD Faculty Exhibition, Minneapolis, MN
The Rochester Art Center, Tin Works, Rochester, MN
North Dakota Museum of Art, Crossing Boundaries, Grand Forks, ND
1992 Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Painting at the Nash, University of Minnesota
Minneapolis College of Art and Design Gallery, Eight McKnight Artists, Minneapolis, MN
1990 Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Works on Paper, Minneapolis, MN
Education
Maryland Institute, College of Art, MFA/Interdisciplinary Art, Mount Royal School of Art
Connecticut College, BA/Printmaking
Santa Reparata Atelier, Florence, Italy; Printmaking, Photography
Press and Publications (selected)
2024 Workman, Elisabeth, Grief, Play, and Gleaning at the End of Empire: On Used, MNartists.org, May 8
2021 Morris-Pusey, Eric, Artists’ Book Reviews, Review of Object Objects : Shana Kaplow, May, 2021
2019 Object Objects : Shana Kaplow, Self-published artist’s book, texts by Veronica Kavass, Sarah Petersen
2018 Wambach, Leah and Zanghi, Alexis, INREVIEW Art Journal, Minneapolis, MN
2015 Soap Factory’s Biennial Celebrates Nature and Nurture in Handsome Show, Star Tribune, September 17
Regan, Sheila, Beaded Paintings, Epic Narratives, and Beastlands at a Midwest Biennial, Hyperallergic, Oct 28,
Brown, Sammy, The Soap Factory Hosts the 4thMidwest Biennial Art Exhibition, Wake Magazine, Oct 5
Erickson, Camille, Home and the Unseen World, MNartists.org, August 27, 2015
Erickson, Camille, Finding Stories in the Ordinary:Shana Kaplow’s Near and Far, newartsmia.org, Aug 2015
Riddle, Mason, Minnesota Artist Exhibition highlights the Cross-Cultural and the Unseen, Twin Cities DailyPlanet, May 21, 2015.
Olson, Craig, Rust Never Sleeps, MNartists.org, October 14, 2015
Catalog, superusted – The Midwest Biennial, essay: Christina Schmid, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
Catalog, Beyond Boundaries, Teda Contemporary Art Museum, Tianjin, China, June 2015
2014 Schmid, Christina, Shana Kaplow: A Coterie of Chairs, ArtPulse Magazine, #19, Vol. 5, Summer 2014
MNOriginal,Video Profile, Twin Cities Public Television, 2014
Regan, Sheila, Shana Kaplow Taps into the Subconscious, City Pages, April 9, 2014
Peloquin, Jahna, Critics Pick: “New Work: Kaplow + Sweere”, Vita.mn, April 7, 2014
2013 Faehnrich, Anke, Third Place Gallery in Minneapolis, Twin Cities Daily Planet, October 22, 2013
2012 New American Painting, volume 101, Open Studios Press, MA
2010 Sheehy, Colleen, From Individual to Icon, Exhibition Catalog, Plains Art Museum, March 2010
2009 New American Painting,volume 77, Open Studios Press, MA
2007 Blocker, Jane, Critical Translations, Exhibition Catalog, Katherine Nash Gallery, U of MN, January 2007
2005 Briggs, Patricia, Eye Witness, Exhibition Brochure, 55 Mercer Gallery, February 2005
2003 Batchelder, Ann, Self and Soul, The Architecture of Intimacy, Exhibition Catalog, Asheville Art Museum
2002 Best Single-Artist Exhibition, City Pages, May 1, 2002
2001 Kalstrom, Jeffrey, Reviews, New Art Examiner, July-August
Fallon, Michael, Reviews,Art Papers, September-October
2000 Fallon, Michael, Art of the State, City Pages, June
Marcum, The A List, City Pages, June
1998 Heartney, Eleanor, Artist Profile, McKnight Foundation Artists Fellowship Catalog, April
Riddle, Mason, Body of Work, (Review), St. Paul Pioneer Press, July
Petrie, Carolyn, Artist Profiles, Skyway News, August
1997 Mullin, Diane, Review, New Art Examiner, September
Steiner, Rochelle, Shana Kaplow + Shannon Kennedy, Exhibition Brochure, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Randall, Cynde, Shana Kaplow + Shannon Kennedy, Arts, May
Koelsh, Patrice, The Visual Arts, Minnesota Monthly, May
Krone, Keith, Modular Body, The Spinal Column, February
1996 Lefkowitz, David, Artists of the Year,Minneapolis City Pages, Dec. 27
Abbe, Mary, In the Galleries, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Feb. 15
1995 Schmitt, Christina, Body and Soul, The Minnesota Daily, Jul. 12
New American Painting, The Open Studio Press, MA
Shackelford, Laura, Culturata, Minneapolis City Pages, May 31
Abbe, Mary, In the Galleries, Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 31
1994 Arts Midwest/NEA Artists Fellowships Catalog
1991 Kastner, Jeffrey, Artist Profile, McKnight Foundation Artists Fellowships Catalog
Teaching and Professional
2024 Founder of Art/Science/Energy Consortium, St. Paul, MN
2019 - present Associate Director of Artist Development, PF Studios, Public Functionary, Minneapolis, MN
2020 - present Mentor, MFA Program, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
2019 - present Founder, TITLE collective, Artist’s Book Collective, St. Paul, MN
2016 – 2019 Professor, 2D Media and Interdisciplinary Studies, St. Cloud State University Art Department, St. Cloud, MN
2010 – 2016 Associate Professor, 2D Media and Interdisciplinary Studies, St. Cloud State University Art Department, St. Cloud
2004 – 2010 Assistant Professor, 2D Media and Interdisciplinary Studies, St. Cloud State University Art Department, St. Cloud, MN
2004 Adjunct Faculty, Painting, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
1997 – 2004 Adjunct Faculty, Painting and Drawing, College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, MN
1995 – 1997 Adjunct Faculty, Painting, Drawing, and Graduate Studies, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN