2025    
Arrival Art Fair, Sears-Peyton Gallery, North Adams, MA
2022    
Shelley Reed: Bouquet, Carol Corey Fine Art, Kent, CT
2021    
These Green Pastures, Visions West Contemporary, Denver, CO
2018    
In Dubious Battle, Visions West Contemporary, Denver, CO
Second Nature: Shelley Reed, Zillman Art Museum, Bangor, ME
2017    
Shelley Reed, Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, CA 
A Curious Nature: Paintings by Shelley Reed, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
2016     
Shelley Reed: Up Close, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
2015    
Tiger in the Living Room: Work by Shelley Reed, Beard and Weil Galleries, Wheaton College, Norton, MA     
In Dubious Battle: Paintings by Shelley Reed, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY
2014     
Animal Instinct: Paintings by Shelley Reed, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
2013     
Shelley Reed: In Dubious Battle, Danese/Corey, New York, NY
2010     
Something is amiss amidst all this beauty and delight, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
2009     
Paintings: Shelley Reed, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2007    
Shelley Reed, Gibsone Jessop Gallery, Toronto, Canada     
Caught in a Net, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY                                                                
2005    
Shelley Reed: 2005 Maud Morgan Prize Recipient, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA     
A Golden Age, Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA
1993    
White Paintings, Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA
1992    
Shelley Reed, Zoe Gallery, Boston, MA
1991    
Shelley Reed: Recent Paintings, Bannister Gallery Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
1990    
Shelley Reed, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY
1989    
Shelley Reed, Zoe Gallery, Boston, MA 
Shelley Reed, Chapel Gallery, Newton, MA
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025    
Still Life Stories: Beauty, Bounty, and Reflection, Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA    
Hazy Shade of Winter, Carol Corey Fine Art, Kent, CT 
2024    
Art on Paper New York, Carol Corey Fine Art, New York, NY 
Vita Wild, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA   
Rigorous Fun, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
Dallas Art Fair, Sears-Peyton Gallery, Dallas, TX
Bird Stories/Human Narratives, Concord Art, Concord, MA    
The Best Advice I Ever Got Was From a Bear, Visions West Contemporary, Bozeman, MT    
It's all in Black and White, Carol Corey Fine Art, Kent, CT
2023    
Shelley Reed, Antler Gallery, Portland, Oregon    
Fall Preview, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
Wait till the Moon is Full, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY    
ABLOOM, Carol Corey Fine Art, Kent, CT    
Intersect Palm Springs, Sears-Peyton Gallery, Palm Springs, CA    
Un/Natural Selections: Wildlife in Contemporary Art, Gibbes Museum of American Art, Charleston, SC    
Think Twice II, Carol Corey Fine Art, Kent, CT    
Beating Under Cover of the Woods, Carol Corey Fine Art, Kent, CT
2022    
Un/Natural Selections: Wildlife in Contemporary Art, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA    
To Market, The Bundy Modern, Waitsfield, CT    
The Gravity of Beauty, The Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA    
On Such a Winter's Day, Carol Corey Fine Art, Kent, CT    
Think Twice, Carol Corey Fine Art, Kent, CT    
Spring Fling, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
Intersect Palm Springs, Sears-Peyton Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
2021    
Un/Natural Selections: Wildlife in Contemporary Art, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY
The Dallas Art Fair, Sears-Peyton Gallery, Dallas, TX    
Garden Party, Carol Corey Fine Art, Kent, CT
2020    
Winter Selections, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
2019    
Getting Real, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY    
Wild Kingdom: 100 Years of Animal Art, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
2018    
The Pollinators, The Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA    
High Summer, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY    
Touchstones, Totems, Talismans: Animals in Contemporary Art, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT
2017    
Ref*er*enced, Danese/Corey, New York, NY    
We Dream/Beauty Beyond and Beneath, Suffolk University Gallery, Boston, MA    
Animal as Metaphor, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA    
Paperwork, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2016    
Fertile Solitude, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA    
Natural Wonder, Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH    
Drawing Conclusions: Works on Paper, Danese/Corey, New York, NY    
Van Dyck, Rembrandt, and the Portrait Print, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2013    
Pedigree, New Art Center, Newton, MA
Still Life Lives, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA                                                      
2012    
Captured: Specimens in Contemporary Art, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2011    
Animal Instinct: Allegory, Allusion, and Anthropomorphism, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI    
A Live Animal, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
A Debt to Pleasure, Montserrat College of Art Gallery, Beverly, MA
Achromatic Variations, Jane Deering Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA                                                   
2010    
Other as Animal, Danese Gallery, New York, NY
Black and White, J. Johnson Gallery, Jackson, FL
Black & White 1918-2010, Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA
2008    
I wonder if you know what it means, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY    
Free Reign, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2007    
Other Visions + Strategies, Jane Deering Gallery, Montecito, CA
Approaches to Narrative, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
Ferragosto, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
2006    
Going Ape: Confronting Animals in Contemporary Art, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, MA
Ars Botanica, Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
Summer Frieze, Jane Deering Gallery, Gloucester, MA                                                             
Artist’s Resource Trust Grant Winners, Trustman Gallery, Boston, MA
2005    
Group Show, Ogilvie/Pertl Gallery, Chicago, IL    
New Faces, New Visions, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
1998    
Women Whose Lives Span the Century, Starr Gallery, Newton, MA
1994    
New England, New Talent, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
1993    
South End Connects, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA    
The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, Drawing Center, New York, NY
1992    
Boston Master Drawings, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
Post-Modern Baroque: Contemporary Painting and Photography, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park,
Lincoln, MA                                 
Gifts of Compassion, Miller/Block Fine Art, Boston, MA                                                             
1991    
Gallery Artists, Zoe Gallery, Boston, MA    
Gallery Artists, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY
1990    
Flowers, Harrison Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Critical Revisions, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY
Boston 1990: the Sixth Triennial, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton,  MA
Invitational, Chapel Gallery, Newton,  MA    
Fears and Scruples, The Arno Maris Gallery, Westfield College, Westfield,  MA
1989    
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham,  MA    
Circa 1900, Scollay Square Gallery, Boston,  MA    
Summer Review, Zoe Gallery, Boston,  MA
1988    
The Faber Birren Color Award Show, Stamford Art Association, Stamford,  CT    
Future Earth, University of Massachusetts Medical Center Gallery, Amherst, MA             
20/20, Helio Galleries, New York, NY    
National Juried Exhibition, Viridian Gallery, New York, NY
1987  
The Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
1986    
Riverside Studios Exhibition, Riverside Studios, London, England    
Annual Exhibition, Chelsea Manor Street Gallery, London, England
1983    
Painters’ Progress, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, MA                                         

 SELECTED AWARDS

2025    
Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant for Creative Individuals 
2023    
Eleanor Briggs Fellowship Award, MacDowell, Peterborough, NH   
MacDowell Fellow, Peterborough, NH
2017    
Lux Art Institute Residency, Encinitas, CA
2015    
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Recipient    
Berkshire Taconic Artists' Resource Trust Grant
2013    
Traveling Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
2012   
Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Finalist
2006   
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Recipient
2005   
Maud Morgan Award, Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Berkshire Taconic Artists’ Resource Trust Grant
1985   
The Winsor and Newton Young Painter Award, London, England
1983   
Boit Competition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA

SELECTED PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts Boston,  MA
Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VA
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY
Fidelity Investment Corporation, Boston,  MA
Wellington Management Company, Boston,  MA
Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham,  MA
DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln,  MA
Bank of Boston, Boston,  MA
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham,  MA

EDUCATION
 
1984   
School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Diploma,  Boston, MA
1980   
Brandeis University, Bachelor of Arts in Psychology,  cum laude, Waltham,  MA