liam donohue shaw

Education

BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2025

University of Houston, 2019-2022

Group Exhibitions

2026 The Big Show (Juried by Valerie Cassel Oliver, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts), Lawndale Arts Center, Houston, Texas

2026 Heartbreak Show, Studios on Kedzie, Chicago, IL

2025 Oddments, 33. East Washington Street Galleries, Chicago, IL

2024 SIP Public Collaboration, Chicago, IL

2020 Yardsale, Serving the People, online based in New York City, NY

2020 Open Studio Shows #1, #2 & #3, Hardy & Nance Studios, Houston, TX

2016 Tomo Mags, Fools, Houston, TX

2015 Open Studio Shows #3 & #4, Common House, Houston, TX

Publications

2025 Sequences, Iterations, Permutations (in collaboration with Jasper Goodrich for Diagrams/Systems exhibition at the Chicago Art Department)

2025 Magazine TM Issue Two

Residencies

2025 Living in the Play, Poor Farm, Manawa, WI

2020 Hardy & Nance Studios AIR, Houston, TX

2015-2016 Common House Studios AIR, Houston, TX

Talks

2026 The Big Slide Show, Lawndale Arts Center, Houston, Texas

Employment

2026 Co-Teacher, By Discovery, Oak Park, IL

2026 Teaching Assistant/Facilitator, Sequences, Images and Permutations, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago IL

2025 Facilitator, Diagrams/Systems, Chicago Art Department, Chicago, IL

2025 Teaching Assistant/Facilitator, Sequences, Images and Permutations, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago IL

2024 Assistant, Ken King Foundries, Houston, TX

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LIAM DONOHUE SHAW

CONTACT

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WORK

scene one

single wooden picket

steel

car window glass

scene two

birdhouse

steel

cardstock

scene three

gondola shelving unit

forty eight mason jars containing rubble from abandoned section of Route 66 (McCook, IL)

two fireflies (deceased) top right and bottom left [proposed mating pair]

fifty packages of glow stars

anti theft stoppers

three ceremonial thirteen fold american flags

ink blot anti theft pins

scene four

ringlights

iphones

asynchronous three channel video

(performed) found footage

cable ties

charging cables

scene five

window frame (modeled from childhood home)

monitor

single channel video

bee (deceased)

scene six

car side mirror

prairie grasses (gathered on site in Manawa, WI)

cable ties

single channel video

projector

scene seven

personal macbook

single channel video (recut and combined youtube survival tutorials)

scene eight

mre ration packaging

hot glue

yarn