Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
M.F.A. in Studio Art, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
B.F.A. in Printmaking, Minors in Digital Arts, Enamel, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2025
Hi-Vis, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY
Sweet Spot, C. Stuart and Jane H. Hunt Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2024
Paper, Pulp & Possibilities, Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory & Educational Foundation
Necessary/Unstoppable, Raft of Sanity, Buffalo, NY
2023
Inter-Affection, The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, Buffalo, NY
Riso Riso, The BICA School Lab, Buffalo, NY
2022
The Persistence of Practice, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Traveling, Connect/Collect: Illuminations, Oklahoma City, OK, Spearfish, SD
Traveling, Mixed Grit, Longmont, CO, Kent, OH, Council Bluffs, IA, Nashville, TN, Iowa City, IA
Emergence, Buffalo Center for Arts and Technology
Traveling, Leave Quietly, Buffalo, NY, Lexington, KY, Mumbai, India, Nicosia, Cyrpus
Making Space, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY
2021
Mural, Adaptive Cycle, Commissioned by Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Public Installation, Sanctuary Space, 50 Fountain Plaza, Buffalo, NY
Last Year on Earth, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
Stillness - Movement - Chaos, City Art Space, Rochester, NY
2020
Lithography, Megalo, ACT, Australia, (virtual due to Covid)
Under Fire 3, Enamel Guild North East, Virtual
Mural, Works, From Home, Commissioned by Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
The Presence of Absence, Indigo Art, Buffalo, NY
2019
Art in Craft Media 2019, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Environs, Bret Llewellyn Art Gallery, Alfred, NY
Take Back the Walls, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
2018
Immutable — Mutant Notations, El Museo, Buffalo, NY
Mirabo, Nichols School Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2017
Don't Be So Blue, Western New York Book Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
Emergent, Heights Arts, Cleveland Heights, OH
Ataraxy: Monotype Prints by Rachel Shelton, Benjaman Gallery, Buffalo, NY
New Directions, Harris Stanton Gallery, Akron, OH
2016
The Measure of All Things: Rethinking Humanism, UB Department of Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Eleven, UB Art Galleries, Buffalo, NY
2015-16 On view at Harris Stanton Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2013-15
On view at Fiddlehead Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2011
Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books, World Traveling Exhibition
Women on Waterloo, Arts Collinwood, Collinwood, OH
Short North Exhibition, Studios on High, Columbus, OH
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2018-Present | Co-Founder & Collaborative Printer, Mirabo Press, Buffalo, NY
2017-18 | Gallery Manager, Eleven Twenty Projects, Buffalo, NY
2017-18 | Project Research Assistant, Sam Francis Foundation, Buffalo, NY
2016-17 | Curatorial Graduate Assistant, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
2015-16 | Teaching Assistant, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
2011-15 | Jewelry Artisan, Photography/Marketing, Heather Moore Jewelry, Cleveland, OH
2011-15 | Instructing Artist in Residence, CIA Print Club, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
SELECT HONORS & RESIDENCIES
2023 | Artist in Residence, Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory & Educational Foundation
2021 | Hervé Tullet Shape & Color Artist Residency, Albright Knox Northland
2020 | Keep NYS Creating Grant, NYFA/NYSCA, NY
2020 | Relief Grants for Artists, Albright Knox Art Gallery
2016-17 | Curatorial Graduate Assistant Scholarship, Department of Art, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
2015-16 | Teaching Assistant Scholarship, Department of Art, SU at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
2011-15 | Printmaking Artist in Residence, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2011-12 | Artist in Residence, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
2025 | “A Less Than Usual Amount of Despair.” Hi-Vis: Ten Years of Public Art at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (2025), 151.
2022 | Rachel Shelton. “Printmakers Connect.” Mid America Print Council Journal, Spring ’22 Issue, Repair, 68-72.
2021 | “Artist Spotlight: Hervé Tullet: Shape and Color Resident Artist Rachel Shelton.” Albright Knox Art Gallery Blog (2021).
2018 | John Coe, Jake Kennedy. “From Sketchbook to Print: Ataraxy.” Pressing Matters Magazine, Issue 3. (2018), 40-43.