Michael Shaw

BIOGRAPHY

Michael Shaw is a Los Angeles-based artist and activist. His work was most recently included in the exhibitions “Sociality” at LA Tate gallery in 2023, and It’s My House! at the Porch Gallery in Ojai, CA, in 2022, and has been exhibited throughout the U.S. He is the recipient of a Culver City Arts grant in 2023, a Puffin Foundation Grant and the Rauschenberg Emergency Grant in 2022, the Center for Cultural Innovation’s Quick Grant in 2021, and the New Student Award at Hunter College, where he received his MFA. His article, “Urban Theater in Plain Sight: The Drama and Ceaseless Advancement of Gentrification in Los Angeles,” was recently published in Space on Space magazine. In the fall of 2023, he was part of the three-person Ellsworth Artist Residency cohort at Art Share L.A. In the spring of 2024, he is slated to be included in the exhibition “Meshuganah” at A Very Serious Gallery in Chicago.