Carol Shaw-Sutton
www.carolshawsutton.com 562 985-4380 cshawsutt@aol.com

EDUCATION
1976 – MFA, California State University , San Diego
1972 – BA, California State University , San Diego

POSITION
1984 – present. Professor of Art, California State University , Long Beach .
1990 – present. Chairperson of the Fiber Program at CSULB.

SELECTED AWARDS and HONORS
1977  The Young American Award. The American Crafts Council. New York, New York
1980  The Nettie Marie Jones Fellowship. Parsons School of Art and Design. New York, New York
1984   Individual Artist Fellowship. National Endowment for the Arts. Washington, D.C.
1988  United States France Grant. The Napoule Foundation. Nice, France
1988  Individual Artist Fellowship. National Endowment for the Arts. Washington, D.C.
1989  United States Japan Fellowship. The United States Government and The Japan Foundation. Washington, D.C. and Kyoto, Japan
1990  The Fine Art Award. International Textile Organization Biennale. Kyoto, Japan
1992  Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award. California State University, Long Beach
1996  Faculty Career Enhancement Grant. California State University, Long Beach
1997  Scholarly and Creative Activities Award. California State University, Long Beach
1998  Individual Artist Fellowship. Public Corporation for the Arts, Long Beach, California
1999  Scholarly and Creative Activities Award. California State University, Long Beach , California
2000  Finalist for the Flintridge Fellowship. Flintridge Foundation. Pasadena, California
2001  Scholarly and Creative Activities Grant– Summer Stipend. California State University, Long Beach
2002  Outstanding Professor, Awarded from the Art Department, California State University, Long Beach
2007  Scholarly and Creative Activities Grant – Summer Stipend. California State University, Long Beach

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2007  Sex on the Beach,  Angel's Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
2007  Light Installation at Carriage House. Islip Art Museum. Long Island, New York. Collaboration with Fran Siegel
2007  Material Girls, Riverside Museum of Art. Riverside, California
2006  Fiber Program Artists. Biola University. La Mirada, California. Exhibition of my work and three other CSULB fiber artists.
2006  Fiber and Fabrics. Angel's Gate Cultural Center. San Pedro , CA
2005  SOFA. Work represented by the Long Beach Museum of Art. Chicago, Illinois
2005 SOFA . Work represented by the Brown Grotta Art Gallery. New York, New York
2005  Beyond Nature. Objects chosen from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection. Long Beach Museum of Art. Long Beach, California
2005  Faculty Biennial. University Art Museum. California State University, Long Beach. Long Beach, California
2005  Open Studios. Angel's Gate Cultural Center. San Pedro, California.
2004  California Artists. John Wayne Airport. Santa Ana, California
2004  Sculpture. Grossmont College Art Museum. La Mesa, California
2004 Collections. Brown Grotta Arts Gallery. Wilton, Connecticut
2003 About Sculpture. University of California, Riverside. Riverside, California
2003  Touch. California State University, Long Beach. Long Beach, California
2003 Masters of their Craft. Coastline College Art Museum. Santa Cruz, California
2002 Faculty Biennial. University Art Museum. California State University, Long Beach. Long Beach, California
2002 SOFA. Represented by Brown/Grotta Arts. Chicago, Illinois
2002 Artists. Angel's Gate Cultural Center. San Pedro, California
2001 25 for the 25th: Glancing Back, Gazing Ahead. Brown Grotta Arts. Wilton, Connecticut
2000  Faculty Biennial. University Art Museum. California State University, Long Beach. Long Beach, California
1999  Re-Generations. The Craft and Folk Art Museum. Los Angeles, California
1999  SOFA. Represented by Brown Grotta Arts. New York, New York
1999  Carol Shaw-Sutton. The Portland Center for Art. Portland, Oregon
1998  Apart / A Part: Carol Shaw-Sutton. Angel's Gate Cultural Center. San Pedro, California
1998  Carol Shaw-Sutton. CSULB Art Department Gallery. Long Beach, California
1998  Tradition and Contemporaneite. Conseil des Arts du Quebec. Quebec, Canada. Traveling
1997  Expanding Textiles. The Art Alliance. St. Louis, Missouri
1997  Our bones are made of stardust….: Carol Shaw-Sutton. The Richard and Karen Carpenter Center. CSULB. Long Beach, California
1997  The Nature of Creativity. University of California, Irvine. Irvine, California
1997  Through the Looking Glass. Cypress College. Cypress, California
1996  Fibre Art Synergy: Biennial Du Lin en Haute Normadie. Notre-Dame Abbey. France
1996  From Our Vault to the Studio. Wutsum Museum of Art. Racine, New York
1996  Fiber Now. Downey Museum of Art. Downey, California
1996  Arduous Happiness. University of California, Los Angeles. Los Angeles, California
1996  Radical ARTifice. California Medical Arts. Santa Monica, California
1996  On the Edge. The Art Alliance. St. Louis, Missouri
1995  International Textile Exhibition. Textile Museum of Holland. Tilburg, Holland
1995  Crossing Boundaries. Pro-Art Galleries. St. Louis, Missouri
1995 Life Work. El Camino College Gallery. Torrance, California
1994  Biennial Internationale de la Tapestry. Museum de Beaux Arts. Lausanne, Switzerland
1994 The State of the Art. The Loveland Museum of Art. Loveland, Colorado
1994 Flags: A Cross European Project to Commemorate the German Re-Unification. Erfurt, Germany. Traveling
1994  Permanent Collection Exhibition. The Oakland Museum of Art. Oakland, California
1994 The Edge of Beauty. California State University, San Jose. San Jose, California
1993  Poetry of the Physical. American Craft Museum. New York, New York and traveling
1992 Biennial Internationale de Tapesty. Museum de Beaux Arts. Lausanne, Switzerland
1992 International Textile Exhibition. Fine Art Award. Museum of Art . Kyoto, Japan
1992 International Textile Exhibition. Netherlands Museum of Art. Tilburg, Holland
1991  The Edge of Beauty. San Jose State University. San Jose, California
1991 Distinguished Graduates. San Diego State University. San Diego, California
1990 New Visions. School of the Visual Arts. New York, New York
1990 Bewitched by Craft. Museum of Contemporary Craft. New York, New York
1990 Art Fiber. San Francisco Craft Museum. San Francisco, California
1990 From Tapestry to Vessel. Stanford University Museum of Art. Palo Alto, California
1989  Art as Ritual: The Other Gods. National traveling exhibition to museums in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, CA, and New York, New York
1988 Twelfth Biennale International de la Tapisserie. Museum de Beaux Arts. Lausanne, Switzerland
1985  The Boat as Metaphor. John Michael Kohler Museum. Sheboygan, Wisconsin (many more exhibitions from 1977 – 1985)

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Arrowmont School of Crafts. Gatlinsburg, Tennessee
Center for Music, Drama and Art. Otis/Parsons School of Design. New York, New York
Center for Tapestry, Ancient and Modern. Laussane, Switzerland
Contemporary Crafts Museum. New York, New York
Charles A. Wutsum Musuem of Art. Racine, New York
Greenville County Museum of Art. Greenville, South Carolina
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. San Francisco, California
Marietta College. Marietta, Ohio
The Mint Museum. Charlotte, North Carolina
Oakland Museum of Art. Oakland, California
Pax Community of Saint Luke's Cathedral. Washington, D.C.
The Cartier Collection. Paris, France
Saks Fifth Avenue Collection. New York, New York
The Elizabeth Mandell Collection. Los Angeles, California
The Neutrogena Corporation Collection. Santa Fe, New Mexico
The Jack Lenor Larsen Collection. New York, New York
The Robert Pfannenbecker Collection. Lancaster, Pennsylvania
The Joan Borenstein Collection. Brentwood, California

PUBLICATIONS
“The Ecological Imperative: Elements of Nature in Late Twentieth-Century Art” MIT Leonardo Music Journal. April 2006.
    Written by Aleksandra Ma N Czak, Head of the Fiber Art Studio in Lodz, Poland
Material Girls. Catalog from exhibition at Riverside Museum of Art. 2007. Riverside, California
Konseptuell Designutvikling: Artist working now. 2006. Oslo, Norway
“Beyond Nature”. Los Angeles Times Newspaper. Los Angeles, California
25 for the 25th: Glancing Back, Bazing Ahead. 1999 Published by Brown Grotta Arts. Wilton, Connecticut
The NewTextiles. 1995. Published by Rizzoli International. New York, New York and London, England
The State of the Art. 1993. Catalog from The Loveland Museum of Art. Loveland, Colorado
“Established Artists Introduce the Next Wave”. 1993. Fiberarts Magazine. Asheville, North Carolina
15th biennale Internationale de la Tapesserie. 1992. Catalogue from Museum de Beaux Arts. Laussanne, Switzerland
“Artist as Healer”. 1992. Visions Magazine. Los Angeles, California
“International Fiber Art”. 1990. Vytvarnictro Fotografia Film. Prague, Czechoslovakia
“The Lausanne Biennale: An interview with Gerhardt Knodel”. Fall 1989. Surface Design Journal. Oakland, California
“The Lausanne Biennale”. 1989. Craft. London, England
“La quattordicesima biennale di Losanna”. I1989. Italia Home. Milan, Italy
“The 14 th International biennale of Tapestry”. 1989. American Craft. New York, New York
The 14 th Biennale Internationale de la Tapisseie. Catalog from Museum de Beaux Arts. 1989. New York, New York
Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical. 1988. American Craft Museum (now, The .Museum of Art and Design) New York, New York
“Bewitched by Craft”. Spring 1988. American Craft Magazine. New York, New York
The Other Gods. 1986. Exhibition catalog from Washington, D.C.
“The Other Gods”. 1986. Artforum International Magazine
“The Other Gods.” 1986. The Los Angeles Times. Susan Munchin. Los Angeles, California
“Carol Shaw-Sutton's Work” . Crafts International Magazine. Issue 18, 1984. Australia
“Rites of Passage: The Art of Carol Shaw-Sutton ”. by Betty Park. 1982. Fiberarts Magazine. Asheville, North Carolina