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