JOHN SHORB
Born 1978, Joint Andrews Base, Maryland.
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
john.shorb@gmail.com
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (* indicates solo)
XX, GOLESTANI Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany, June 17-July 26, 2023*
A Cosmic Womb, Tops Gallery, Memphis, TN, January 22-March 5, 2022*
Friend and Foe, Santa Clara University Gallery, Santa Clara, CA, February 13–April 11, 2020
The Daily Avalanche, Tops Gallery, Memphis, TN, March 24–May 13, 2018*
Scenes in the Unseen, University of Mississippi Museum Historic Home Rowan Oak, February 10–August 1, 2017
Structure Unbound: Interdisciplinary Book Art, The Robert & Elaine Stein Galleries, Wright State University, January 17–February 26, 2017
Text, Type. Typology, Marylyn & Chuck Klaus Center for the Arts, Marymount California University, November 3, 2016–January 18, 2017
Interior Dimensions, The Fine Arts Center of Hot Springs, Arkansas, June 3–July 31, 2016
WAKING, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, Humanities Gallery, September 2013*
As Subject and Object: Contemporary Book Artists Explore Sacred Hebrew Texts, Museum of Biblical Art, NYC, June–September 2013
Remnants, Northeastern University, Gallery 360, Boston, October 2012–February 2013*
Gifted Visions, University of Mississippi Museum, September–October 2012
Waking & Sleeping, University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses, June–September 2012*
Memory Remains, Northeastern University, Gallery 360, Boston, March–May, 2012
Can’t Hear the Revolution, Kunsthalle Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY, August 2011
Red Hook Hoe-Down, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, May 2010
RESIDENCIES, TEACHING, & WRITING
Penland School of Craft, Winter Resident, January 2024
"A Garden So Brilliant: LaKela Brown," Catalog essay for Paper: Post-colonial Narratives curated by Klaudia Draber, 2022
Blue Mountain Center, Visual Arts Resident, September 2018
Penland School of Craft, Winter Resident, January 2017
Long Island University, Solvent Transfer Demonstrations, 2012-2015
Brooklyn Arts Council Visual Arts Grant Panel, Panelist, 2009, 2010, 2012 (chair), 2013
Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Lecture on Intersections of Art and Religion, February 2012
Hambidge Center, Fellow in Residency Program, April 2011
Peace Corps, Volunteer, Republic of Benin, West Africa, 2001–2003
Fulbright Commission, Teaching Assistant, Republic of Austria, Steyr, 2000-2001
EDUCATION
Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, Bachelor of Arts, 2000
Union Theological Seminary, New York City, Master of Divinity, 2007
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Asheville Art Museum
Art Museum at the University of Memphis
Brooks Museum of Art
LeBonheur Children’s Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
New York University Center for Spiritual Life
Turchin Center of Art, Appalachian State University
University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses