Gwen Shockey is a Brooklyn-based multi-disciplinary artist, activist and educator. She teaches drawing and painting and directs the Anne Reid ‘72 Gallery at Princeton Day School in New Jersey. She is also the founder of The Addresses Project.
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2023 What did it feel like to be there? 12 Portraits from The Addresses Project, Pen and Brush Gallery, New York, NY
2022 What did it feel like to be there? 12 Portraits from The Addresses Project, The Center, New York, NY
2019 Venus Rising, Practice Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Addresses, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 No Man’s Land, The Leslie-Lohman Museum Project Space, New York, NY
2015 The Hand Inventory Project, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 The Continuation of Life, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Group Exhibitions
2021 Dissolution, The Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY
2019 Idol Worship, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2019 “I wanna dance with somebody!” Every Woman Biennial, La Mama Gallery and 222 Bowery, New York, NY
Image credit: Katharina Poblotzki, 2021
2018 Mapping Memory, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
2017 Other Spaces, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Expanded Visions: Fifty Years of Collecting, The Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York, NY
2017 Some Assembly Required, Thorndike Gallery at Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
2016 Like Smoke, Equity Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Who's Afraid of Feminism?, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Out on 9, Reynolds Fine Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2014 In/Visible PRIDE, Open House SoHo, New York, NY
2014 Past/Forward, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Collections
The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY
Curatorial and Consulting Projects
2019 Letting Loose and Fighting Back: LGBTQ Nightlife Before and After Stonewall, New-York Historical Society, New York, NY
Publications
2019 The Lost Landscape of Lesbian Nightclubs in New York City in Change Over Time: An International Journal of Conservation and the Built Environment at University of Pennsylvania Press by Karen Loew and Gwen Shockey
2019 Queer Holdings: A Survey of the Leslie-Lohman Museum Collection, Edited by Gonzalo Casals and Noam Parness, Distributed for Hirmer Publishers, Published by The University of Chicago Press
2018 Undertow, Silent Face Projects, curated by Pacifico Silano, Forward by Emily Colucci
2015 Who’s Afraid of Feminism?, Women’s Caucus for Arts and A.I.R. Gallery, curated by Catherine Morris
Web-Based Publications
2021 Smithsonian Magazine, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/rise-and-fall-americas-lesbian-bars-180976801/
2020 Them.us, https://www.them.us/story/now-list-2020-gwen-shockey
2019 HYPERALLERGIC, https://hyperallergic.com/514210/addresses-project-gwen-shockey/
2019 The New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/16/arts/design/every-woman-biennial.html
2019 The Daily News, https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-lesbians-queer-women-bars-nightclubs-new-york-history-20190519-dvbvom7rwrcpllr7pg3o74aec4-story.html
2017 Filthy Dreams, https://filthydreams.org/2017/11/17/dont-leave-me-this-way-finding-the-remnants-of-nycs-lesbian-bars-in-gwen-shockeys-addresses/
2017 CITYLAB, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-11/preserving-scenes-of-disappearing-lesbian-bars
2017 Dance NYC, http://www.dance.nyc/jcomm/blog/2017/04/Melding-Art-and-Activism-An-interview-with-Gwen-Shockey/
2013 Huffington Post, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gwen-shockey_b_4436463
Visiting Artist and Lectures
2017 Fashion Institute of Technology, Guest Lecturer, New York, NY
2017 Connecticut College, Guest Lecturer, New London, CT
Residencies
2018 The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2016 OxBow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI
2012 Nowhere Studios, Paonia, CO
2009 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Blue Hill, ME
Fellowships and Awards
2020 Them.us Now List
2018-2019 The Leslie-Lohman Museum Queer Art Fellowship Program