Dan Shapiro


born 1920, New York City
died 1982, Palo Alto



STUDIED

Cooper Union Art School, honors in painting & design 1941
Columbia University, 1944-46


TAUGHT

Bennington College, 1947-57
Columbia University, 1957-59
UC Davis, 1959-82


EXHIBITIONS

1940 & 1941   Cooper Union Art School
1942   Brooklyn Society of Artists
1944   Oakland Art Gallery
1945 & 1946   Library of Congress
1945 & 1946   Municipal Art Gallery, Jackson, Mississippi
1946   Seattle Art Museum
1946   Tribune Art Club
1952   Peter Cooper Gallery (solo)
1963   Library of Congress, 'National Exhibition of Prints'
1963   University of California, San Francisco (solo)
1963   San Francisco Museum of Art (showing embossed prints with Claire Falkenstein & Dennis Beall)
1964-65   Cellini Gallery, San Francisco (with Robert Arneson and others)
1965   Cellini Gallery (solo)
1967   San Francisco Museum of Art (solo)
1968   Rice University, Houston (solo)
1969   Art in the Embassies program
1970   Arleigh Gallery, San Francisco (retrospective)
1970   Expo '70, The San Francisco Exhibition, Osaka, Japan
1971   UC Davis (with fellow faculty members Robert Arneson, Manuel Neri, WIlliam Wiley, Wayne Thiebaud, Roy DeForest & others)
1975   EB Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento (solo)
1983   Kala Institute, Berkeley
1984   UC Davis
2015   Bennington Museum, VT & Bennington College, Usdan Gallery (both solo)
2016   Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis


COLLECTIONS

San Francisco Museum of Art
De Young Museum, San Francisco [Haiku series]
The Oakland Museum
Howard University (mural)
San Francsico Art Institute
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento
UC Davis


AWARDS

1963 MacDowell Colony Fellowship