Nancy Shaver

Nancy Shaver (b. 1946, Appleton, NY) lives and works in Jefferson, NY. Shaver, along with Jared Buckhiester, Walker Evans, and Robert Gober will be featured in a four-person show at American Art Catalogues, New York next month. Select solo and two-person exhibitions include Copper and Propane, a photograph: what it is and what it isn’t, F, Houston, TX (2022); Blockers, Spacers and Scribble Drawings 2020, Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2021); Gathering texture, following form (with Emi Winter), Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2019); Alex Olson and Nancy Shaver: Waters, 12.26, Dallas, TX; Nancy Shaver: Reconciliation, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (2015); Feature, Inc., New York, NY (2002-2011) and Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY (1987-1999). Select group exhibitions include Nayland Blake, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (2025); Second Annual Exhibition with Wolf, The Campus, Hudson, NY (2025); One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA (2018); Outliers and American Vanguard Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (2018); VIVA ARTE VIVA, 57th International Exhibition of Art, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (2017); Greater New York, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY (2015); and Robert Gober: The Heart is Not a Metaphor, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2014). This will be her fifth solo exhibition at the Gallery. (Resource: Derek Eller Gallery, 2025)

In 2023, Shaver exhibited her work in WOLF in Erie County at Hallwalls in Buffalo, NY. Her collaborators also included the book, Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield, lent by the Burchfield Penney Art Center. It was the catalogue for the traveling exhibition curated by Robert Gober that was shown at the Hammer Museum, UCLA; Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, NY; and Whitney of American Art in New York City (2009-2010).