SOLO SHOWS
2024
– “A race of Angels” – Paradigm Gallery and Studio, Philadelphia, USA
2021
– ‘Night Stars’ Paradigm Gallery and Studio, Philadelphia, USA
2020
– ‘Future Antebellum’ Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
– ‘Colin Kaepernick - Know Your Rights Camp Photo Exhibit, KUUMBA25’, Toronto, Canada
2019
– ‘Shawn Theodore’ The Photography Gallery at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, USA
– ‘These Subtle Declarations’ Allens Lane Art Center, Philadelphia, USA
– ‘A Castle Beyond the Inland Delta: Visions of Afromythology’, Rush Arts, Philadelphia, USA
– ‘Sisters of the Cypress’, TBWA\MEDIA ARTS LAB, Los Angeles, USA
2018
- 'One Leaf Does Not a Cypress Make', Hudson Valley Community College, Troy, NY, USA
2017
– 'Church of Broken Pieces', Richard Beavers Gallery, NYC, USA
– 'Future Antebellum', Art Sanctuary, Philadelphia, USA
– 'Ctrl+P', Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, USA
– 'Church of Broken Pieces', African American Museum in Philadelphia, USA
2015
– ‘The Avenues’, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, USA
GROUP SHOWS
2023
– ‘The Art and Influence of John Dowell: An Exhibition’. The Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA
– ‘Someone’, Sohn Fine Art. Lenox, USA
2020
– ‘Solidarity’ Sohn Fine Art. Lenox, USA
– ‘Black Art Matters’, photo SCHWEIZ, Zurich, Switzerland
– ‘Shifting Gaze: A Reconstruction of The Black & Hispanic Body in Contemporary Art’, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, USA
– ‘Black Culture – Identität und Kultur’, photoSCHWEIZ, Stockholm, Sweden
– ‘Lost Carmel, curated by Kris Graves’ Center for Photographic Art, Sunset Center, Carmel by the Sea, USA
2018
– ‘Shifting Gaze: A Reconstruction of The Black & Hispanic Body in Contemporary Art’, Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, USA
– ‘Yearbook’, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Mural Arts and For Freedoms, Philadelphia, USA
– “Redlining — Past, Present, Future”, A Dream Deferred, PHL, Philadelphia, USA
-‘Collective Conscious: The Art of Social Change’, African American Museum in Philadelphia, USA
– ‘Home Court’, Shawn Theodore, Aysha Ray Walker, Danielle Morris. Philadelphia, USA
- ‘Between Now & Then; Life in the Bardos’, Norwood Club by G A Macura, NYC, USA
- ‘Refraction: New Photography of Africa and Its Diaspora’, Steven Kasher, Chelsea, NYC, USA
– 'Legacy of the Cool, A Tribute to Barkley L. Hendricks' MassArt, Bakalar & Paine Galleries, Boston, USA
– 'SHABAZZ / THEODORE' Jamel Shabazz and Shawn Theodore, Snap! Space, Orlando, USA
2017
– ‘InVision Photo Festival’, Bethlehem, USA
– ‘We Are Stronger Together' Rush Arts Philadelphia, The Barnes Foundation, and Art Sanctuary, USA
– ‘Revolutionary: A Pop-Up Street Art Exhibition’, Philadelphia, USA
- ‘Other Articulations of the Real’ The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, NY, USA
– 'Philadelphia Renaissance', Art Sanctuary, Philadelphia, USA
2016
– OFF WHITE’, MoCADA Museum, Brooklyn, USA
– ‘Street Diaries’ Melbourne, Australia
2015
– PPAC 6th Annual Contemporary Photography Competition & Exhibition, Philadelphia, USA
ART FAIRS
2021
– Art on Paper, NYC, solo booth, Paradigm Gallery+Studio
2020
– Photoville, NYC, ‘Places of Inspiration’ New York, USA
– ‘Scope Art Fair Scope’ Immersive second Edition. Booth, Paradigm Gallery+Studio, Philadelphia, USA
– ‘Photo LA’: Booth, ParisTexasLA Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2018
– ‘The Photography Show at AIPAD’: Booth, Steven Kasher Gallery, NYC , USA
2017
-‘PRIZM Art Fair’, Art Basel, Miami, USA
2016
– ‘PRIZM Art Fair’, Art Basel, Miami, USA
2014
– ‘Art Takes Miami’, SCOPE Art Miami, Miami, USA
EDUCATION
2018
- Savannah College of Art and Design, MFA, Photography
2000
- Temple University, BA in Journalism, Public Relations and Advertising
AWARDS
2022
- ADC Awards, Hometown Shot on iPhone, Apple
2020
- AI-AP American Photography 35
2019
- PDN’s 30 New & Emerging Photograph
- Getty Images / ARRAY ‘Where We Stand’
2018
- Knight Foundation Grantee, ‘A Dream Deferred PHL’
-The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Fellowship, Nominee
- Magnum Foundation Fund, Nominee
2016
-The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Fellowship, Nominee
ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES
2018
- SPACES Residency at The Village of Arts and Humanities, "Home Court" Project
- VSCO Voices, Mentor
FILM & TELEVISION
2021
-‘American Refugee’
2020
-‘The Photograph’, Universal Pictures
2019
-‘Boomerang’, Halle Berry, Lena Waithe, BET Network, Viacom, Paramount Television
2018
-‘The Obituary of Tunde Johnson’, Zgreen Entertainment, Jason Shuman Productions, JRU Studios
PERFORMANCE
2017
-Participant/Actor in ‘Suburban Invasion,’ Sanford Biggers in collaboration with Xaviera Simmons and Michael Stablein as part of The Barnes Foundation ‘Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie’
MURALS & PUBLIC WORKS
2021
- ‘Wake’ Philadelphia International Airport, Terminal D, USA
-‘Future Antebellum’, The New Freedom Theatre
2020
-‘Seasons’, 2900 Ridge Avenue, Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia, USA
-Windows on Latimer’, Inaugural artist, The Print Center, Philadelphia, USA
- ‘The Sisters of Cypress’, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2019
-‘A New Life’, Eric Okdeh with contributions by Shawn Theodore, Mural Arts, Philadelphia, USA
2017
‘Aizen’, 990 Spring Garden, Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia, USA
COMMERCIAL WORKS
2021
-Apple campaign ‘Hometown’, television, billboard, and social media
-Spotify, Spotlight on Black photographers, Honoring Black History Month
2020
-Apple Feature Campaign ‘Mobile to Museum’ television, billboard, and social media
-Showtime Network, ‘The Chi’ Season 3 key art
2019
-RocNation, Buju Banton key art
-Apple, Instagram Account, Black History Month Profile: Poet Ursula Rucker
2017
Apple, QWERTY Campaign. Officially premiered during ‘Apple Special Event, October 2016’
2016
-Apple, Instagram Launch Campaign: Instyle (main image), Yahoo Finance (main image), TIME.
COLLECTIONS
Selected works in limited editions are held in international private and public collections.
Notable collectors/collections include:
- First lady Michelle Obama
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- The African American Museum of Philadelphia
- Library of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Library of the Whitney Museum
- Library of the Guggenheim Museum
- Library of the Getty Institute
- Amon Carter Museum of Art
- Arcadia University
- Texas State University
- ArtCenter College of Design
- Syracuse University
- Cornell Fine Arts Museum
- Drexel University
