Beth Shadur

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Beth Shadur, featured in AQ Volume VII, has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad, including at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Drawing Center in NYC. She has created over 150 large public murals as public, private, and community art projects in both the United States and Great Britain. She has taught and served as a visiting artist at many colleges and universities, and her work appears in numerous publications, books, and catalogues, including Twentieth Century Watercolors, Abbeville Press, and Art and Cartography, Art Institute of Chicago.

Shadur has been awarded numerous Ragdale Foundation Fellowships and is a Thomas Watson Fellow from Brown University, as well as a recipient of the Denis Diderot Grant, France; a grant from USA Projects; grants from the Illinois Arts Council; Chicago Artists Abroad; and the Governor’s Award for International Arts Exchange.

From 2004–2006, she served as Executive Director of ARC Gallery, Chicago. She participated in the Cool Globes Public Art Project in Chicago in 2007 and, in 2008, was Artist-in-Residence at the Burren College of Art in Ireland through a Governor’s Award for International Arts Exchange from the Illinois Arts Council. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Hafnarfjörður Art Museum in Iceland, and, in 2024, completed a residency at Château Orquevaux in Orquevaux, France. She has been invited to return for a residency there in spring 2026.

She is a board member of the National Watercolor Honor Society, a member of the collective Space 900, and of the Jewish Arts Collective Chicago.

From 2012–2024, she was the Gallery Director at Prairie State College in Illinois and is an independent curator as well, most notably of the Poetic Dialogue Project.


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