CJ SHAPIRO
@carenjoshapiro
EXHIBITIONS
2023
Amazing Portraits, Modern Visual Arts Gallery, Bethlehem, PA
2022
New Show, Gamut Gallery, Stroudsburg, PA
Celebrate Art, Modern Visual Arts Gallery, Bethlehem, PA
Art on the Mountain, Shawnee Mountain, Stroudsburg, PA
Music Motif, Pocono Arts Council, Stroudsburg, PA
Mixed Bag, The Feature Gallery, East Stroudsburg, PA
Words Exhibition, Pocono Arts Council, East Stroudsburg, PA
Love the Skin You’re In, Create and Be Studio, East Stroudsburg, PA Where’s Ya Mind At? Pt. II, Create and Be Studio, East Stroudsburg, PA
Member’s Exhibition, Pocono Arts Council, East Stroudsburg, PA
Love and Peace, Antoine Dutot Museum and Gallery, Delaware Water Gap, PA
Black Culture in the Burg, Create and Be Studio, East Stroudsburg, PA No Man’s Land, Shockboxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA
Pop-Up Show, The Gallery, East Stroudsburg, PA
Human Faces and Figures, Las Laguna Gallery, Online
2021
The Art of New York: Annual Juried Art Show, Arkell Museum, Canajoharie, NY
We’re Doing it all Wrong, Edward A. Dixon Gallery, Dayton, OH
Artsy Mood, Boomer Gallery, London
“May I …”, StartaArta, New York, NY
Exhibition TWO, International Women Artists’ Salon, Online
Women Artists, Fusion Art, Online
6th Annual Artist’s Choice Art Exhibition, Fusion Art, Online
Figures and Faces, Fusion Art, Online
4th Annual Women Artists Art Exhibition, Fusion Art, Online
Contemporary, Art Room Online Gallery, Online
Color Sense 2021 Showcase, CollexArt, Online
Open Theme/All Media, Las Laguna, Online
LGBTQ+ Positive Voices, Online
The Second Half, Online
Memorial. Monument. Movement, Art Against Racism, Online
Portrait, Grey Cube Gallery, Online
She/ Her/ They/ Them, IncuArts Gallery, Online
Visions of the Self: A Show of Female Artists Around the World, Yosemite Arts, Online
When She Rises, We All Rise, Art Gallery 118, Online
Time and Tide, Art Gallery 118, Online
All Women’s Art Show, SmugMug, Online
124th Juried Exhibition, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Online
Nuditas, Exhibizone, Online
2020
Art for Social Change: DISSENT, Oak Park Art League, Chicago, IL
GOOD TROUBLE / U DECIDE: America’s artists honor the legacy of John Lewis; Center for Contemporary Political Art; Washington D.C.; Austin, TX; New York, NY
Present Tense: Beyond Words, Pocono Arts Council, Stroudsburg, PA
Immigration: An American Story, Dunning Gallery, East Stroudsburg, PA
Political Discord, Las Laguna Gallery, Online
Black Lives Matter: Silence Equals Violence, Pablo Gallery, Online
Are You Serious?, ArtisTTable, Online
2019
Political Art, Main Street Gallery, East Stroudsburg, PA
Anti-Gun Violence, Main Street Gallery, East Stroudsburg, PA
2018
SoHo in the Burg, Renegade Winery, East Stroudsburg, PA
Make Resistance Great Again, Main Street Gallery, East Stroudsburg, PA
2014
We Tell Stories, SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY
2013
The Fourth Unitarian VDay Benefit, Unitarian Church, New York, NY
Indwelling, Friends Academy, New York, NY
2012
Exhibition TWO: Color Talk, Chasama, New York, NY
2011
Passion, Leslie Lohman Gallery, New York, NY
Estrogenius 2010, Source Manhattan Theatre, New York, NY
2010
Exhibition ONE: Zero Gravity, International Women Artists’ Salon, New York, NY
Noho Artwalk, T.D. Bank, New York, NY
Speak Out: Women’s Art / Women’s Bodies, Friends Academy, New York, NY
Feminart, Welles Gallery, Lenox, MA
2009
Passion, Leslie Lohman Gallery, New York, NY
Huntington Council of The Arts, Huntington, NY
Theater for the New City Gallery, Artistas De Loisaida Foundation, New York, NY
2008
Feminart, Becket Arts Center, Becket, MA
AWARDS
2022
Third in Show, Member’s Exhibition, Pocono Arts Council, East Stroudsburg, PA
2021
Honorable Mention, Portrait, Grey Cube Gallery
Special Recognition, “Figurative” Art Exhibition, LightSpaceTime
Best in Show, ALL WOMEN ARTIST, Contemporary Art Gallery Online
Finalist, “Open” Art Exhibition, Art Room Online Gallery
Finalist, 5th Annual “Colors” Art Exhibition, Fusion Art
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022
“Does This Look Pro-Life To You?” WTCI: And Intersectional Feminist Psychotherapy Institute, 2022.
2021
CLWAC 124th Exhibition NYC Catalog
Shapiro, Caren Jo. “Can Black Lives Matter Yet?” Artistonish, May 2021, p. 32
The Working Artist, Vol. 1, 2021
Shapiro, Caren Jo. “Great Again for Who?” Into The Void, Issue 18, 1 Feb. 2021
2020
Art Hole Magazine, Edition 7, 2020
2011
Manhattan Theatre Source, Estrogenius 2010, December 14, 2011
2010
Russell, Heidi. “Heidi Russell Presents Painter Caren Jo Shapiro.” The New York Optimist, 2010
EDUCATION
2018
Post-Graduate Degree, Specialization in Eating Disorders, Women’s Therapy Center Institute, New York, NY
2005
Master of Social Work, Ehrenkranz School of Social Work, New York University, New York, NY
1984
Master of Fine Art, School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York, NY
1983
Bachelor of Art, Art and Psychology, State University NY, Old Westbury