Beth Shipley

About

Beth Shipley is a visual artist and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work engages the mediums of painting and the language of reductive abstraction to locate form and claim space for the marginalized, erased, abject, or otherwise felt but not yet seen. Shipley teaches foundation and studio art courses in the Department of Art and Art History. Prior to joining the faculty in 2011, she taught at Pratt Institute and Kingsborough Community College (CUNY). 

She has exhibited in the US and abroad, including solo shows at the Solar Grandjean de Montigny, Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, AZ Project Space, NY; Westminster Gallery, NJ and group exhibitions at the Kleinert James Center for the Arts, NY; Whitelight Contemporary, NM; Park Place Gallery, NY, Geoffrey Young Gallery, MA, Silvermine Gallery, CT; Mid-Atlantic Painting Biennial, MD; and the Islip Art Museum, NY.

Numerous foundations and organizations have supported her work including individual grants from Change Inc; Marymount Manhattan College, and the City University of New York and residency awards from Virginia Center of the Creative Arts; Helene Wurlitzer Foundation; Jentel Foundation; RAiR Foundation Historic Studios; Hambidge Center for Creative Arts; Nave/New Works (Ecuador), Byrdcliffe Guild with a Pollock Krasner grant; Klots International Foundation residency and travel grant (France); Fundacion Valparaiso (Spain); and the Vermont Studio Center.