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Technology and Humanity Canvas (installation), Vernissage at Kanvas, Dubai, UAE — 2023
Inclusiverse, 0x17 Gallery, Seaport, New York, NY — 2023
Portland Winter Lights Festival, Portland, OR — 2019
Signal (Installation), Artist in Residence, TEDxSalem (talk: Reframing the Journey), 2019; Portland Winter Lights Festival, Portland, OR, 2019; Pickathon, Happy Valley, OR, 2023
The Act of Stillness (installation) — TEDxMtHood, Portland, OR — 2015
The Act of Stillness, Untangled (installations), Artist in Residence, TEDActive, Whistler, Canada — 2015
Beyond the Story, Hillsboro Public Library, Hillsboro, OR — 2014
Untangled (installation); debuted TEDxConcordiaUPortland, 2013 (talk: Untangling the Stories); Portland International Airport, Concourse E, 2013–2014; TEDActive, Whistler, Canada, 2015
Spiral (installation), Cascade AIDS Project, Portland, OR (installation) – 2012
Real Lives of Women Artists, Smith College Museum of Art, 2010
SEE (installation), Portland City Art at Milepost 5, Portland, OR (installation) – 2009

Exhibited and installed work throughout the Pacific Northwest and Northeast, including a solo show at Smith College (Northampton, MA), Cascade AIDS Project, DragonFire Gallery (Cannon Beach, OR), Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts, PICA, and numerous regional galleries, festivals, and civic arts initiatives.

Smith College, Northampton, MA
A.K. Bingham, Portland, OR (private collector)

Footloose Enterprises, Cambridge, New Zealand — 2011
Eco-Luxury Fur, LLC, Portland, OR — 2008

Article & illustrated art walk map, Oregon City Chamber of Commerce Travel Guide — 2026
Conceptual illustrator for Disney-licensed sculptor — 2021-2023
Illustrations, Histology & Gross Anatomy syllabi, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR — 1994-1999
Illustrations, Rescue the Rainforest, Save Some for Me, Moon Sun Emporium, Boulder, CO ) — 1999
Art E. Facts, illustrated children’s-programming character & spokesperson, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX  — 1989
Illustrations, Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, TX, The Wortham IMAX Theatre, The George Observatory, Dinamation, Carthage: An Ancient Mosaic of Tunisia, The Dinosaur Dash — 1987-1989
Illustrations, Histology & Pathology syllabi and Medical Arts Department, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, TX — 1980-1985
Illustrations, Schmidt, Waldemar A., Principles and Techniques in Surgical Pathology, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA — 1983
Illustrations, Bulger, R.E., Dobyan, D.C., Recent Advances in Renal Morphology, Annual Review of Physiology, 44:147–179 (figs. 1, 2, 16)  — 1982

Published under Rebecca Shapiro prior to 2023.
Featured work, Terra Magazine, Oregon State University — October 2014
Russo, Carla Herreria, New Shade of Blue Set To Change Our Homes For The Better, HuffingtonPost — 2016
Painters Shapiro, Mish and Pavlenko Now at DragonFire Gallery in Cannon Beach, Coast Explorer, Summer 2011, p. 29 — 2011
Oujiri, Lauren, R Shapiro and D Fox, Artclectic PDX — June 2011
Haatia, Lorraine, Shapiro Uses Beeswax to Create Green Art, Greening Business Everyday — 2010
Hawkey, Cameron, Saturday 4/17/10: Rebecca Shapiro, An Artist a Day — 2010

TEDx Incubator Prize for TEDxArtist in Residence program, co-creator (with Michelle Jones, TEDxMtHood) — 2014
Published author, Work Independently and Live Connectedly: 52 Steps to Freelancing Freedom — 2014
Artistic Focus Project Grant recipient, Regional Arts & Culture Council — 2011
Community Cultural Participation Grant, Multnomah County Cultural Coalition — 2011
Professional Development Grant recipient, Regional Arts & Culture Council — 2010

Production & conceptual illustrator, tension-structure design-build firm, Portland, OR — 2019-2021
Creative Arts Director, Creative Science School, built K-8 arts integration program connecting classroom curriculum to original art projects, using parent, artist, and subject-specialist volunteers, Portland, OR — 2010-2012
Design, writing & programming, placenta.org, Cascadia Placenta Registry, Portland, OR — 1998–2003

Travel Oregon City Marketing Board — 2026-2027
Oregon City Arts Commission, Vice Chair; wrote and designed website content (site built by Ink Stained Creative) — 2024-2026
Business Development Committee, Oregon College of Art and Craft — 2012
Arts In Schools, Project Grant Panelist, Regional Arts & Culture Council — 2012

Presented TEDx Artist in Residence Program to TEDx organizer trainings: TED Vancouver, BC, TEDxBeaconStreet, TEDxMtHood, TEDxSalem — 2014-2019
Speaker, Bates Center for Entrepreneurship and Leadership, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR — 2018
Stories from the Field: How five local artists forged professional paths, Region Arts & Culture Council, Portland, OR — 2014
Social Media for Artists, Working Artists Network, Portland, OR — 2009
Designed & led monthly on-air art segments, AM Northwest, KATU, Portland, OR — 2009

Painting, Murals, Illustration, Public Art, Photography, Sculpture, Video, Animation
Procreate, Affinity Suite, Adobe Suite, StudioArtist
Graphic Design, Marketing, Copywriting

Therapeutic Arts Facilitator, Youhjung Song, New York, NY — 2025
Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR — Technical Drafting 2021
Portland Community College, Portland, OR — Digital Arts Certification, 2013
Portland Children’s Museum, Portland, OR — Artist as Educator Certification, 2011
Smith College, Northampton, MA — B.A., Fine Art, 1985
Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX — five-time recipient, Frank Freed Memorial Scholarship for Printmaking, 1986
University of Texas Medical School, Houston, TX — Graphic Design Department, early 1980s