bio // cv
Photo Based Visual Artist // Stills + Motion,
Based out of Southern California + Toronto
Born in small town, Ontario, Canada
My work explores the ever-evolving, consequential, perpetual flow of nature and in there, the elaborate, and explosively beautiful. I'm a former modern dancer, turned traditional painter, turned self-taught Photographer, turned Visual Creator. This eclectic background within traditional arts, has influenced a highly choreographic approach. I love creating simple, visual stories from many elements. My ‘digital knitting’ process of photo illustrations/collages are made up of often hundreds of images and layers, painted into one, seamless composition. Some projects are made from original images and we jump into full shoot production, wonderful, call my Producer! Others require stock photography research + sourcing from yours and my extensive, personal library and beyond. Wicked good too. Either way, let's make magic together.
Kerry Shaw + image[s] = true LOVE
CLIENTS // Nike, Apple, Sony, Ford Motors, Las Vegas Tourism, Cialis, Johnson & Johnson, BMO, Lilly Canada, Wonderbra, Manulife Financial, Kraft Canada, Wind Mobile, Entertainment One, Remicade, Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls, Plan Canada, Liberal Party of Ontario, Globe & Mail, Report On Business, Global Live, Drawn to Develop, Accessible Media Incorporated, License to Learn, Adball, Yescarta, The Grid, IBI Group, Tidy Tab, The Hive, Mobile Jam Fest, Nancy Boy Pictures, Culture Creative & co., Osler Hospital, Eye Weekly, Today’s Parent, Aurora Photos, Canadian Music Week, Alliance Films inc, Pretty in the City, Underground Garage, Sub Zero Wolf, Kenaidan, Indigo Wild Adventures, Profit Magazine, Grazia Magazine UK, Enroute Magazine, Novus Select, Ontario College of Teachers, Toonies for Tummies, Precedent Magazine
AGENCIES // Sandbox, R&R Partners, Young & Rubicam, Taxi, Tribal DDB, Grey Canada, The Hive, Fresh Creative Inc., Dentsu, Bensimon Byrne, Euro RSCG, Zulu Alpha Kilo, Lowe Roche, Capital C, Filament Creative Inc., One Advertising, LG2, Mosaic
Selected Awards // Publications//Press
2017 Selected Artist for CAMH Installations, Toronto
2016 Guest Judge “Snaphots: Shoot & Score” CBC Kids Television show
2016 SOFIA PRESS: https://www.thefader.com/2016/05/13/canadian-media-collectives-women
2016 SOFIA PRESS: https://aquarteryoung.com/2016/05/16/7995/
2016 Launch of collective SOFIA: Society of Feminists in Art, Toronto
2015 Magenta Foundation's Flash Forward Photography Annual
2015 Guest judge “Snapshots” pilot episode, CBC Kids Television show
2015 nominated for Best Portrait, National Magazine Awards, Canada
2015 Communication Arts - Advertising "Because I am A Girl"
2015 Applied Arts Photography Annual 2014 ADCC Merit Award "People For Good" Campaign
2014 Graphis Advertising Silver "People For Good" Campaign
2014 Highlighted in Magenta Foundation's "Flash Forward Tenth"Book
2014 Guest speaker, Full Time Photographer Podcast
2013 Magenta Foundation’s Book of Emerging Photographers “Flash Forward”
2012 Reel World Film Festival, Official selection Director: Papermaps Music Video
2011 Drawn to Develop, The Grid Feature Article
2011 Magenta Foundation’s Book of Emerging Photographers “Flash Forward”
2009 Photo Ed Magazine: Featured Artist, The Altered Image - Issue 22 2007 “Rising Exhibition”, Contact Photography Festival, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
2007 Juror for BMFA Annual Photography Competition, Collingwood, Ontario
2006 Speaker, Canadian Camera Conference, Toronto 2006 Published works in “Carte Blanche” The Magenta Foundation's Book of Canada's Top Photographers
2006 Speaker, Toronto Camera Club, Toronto
2004 Canserrat Artist Residency, Barcelona, Spain
2004 winner Naked In the House photography competition & Documentary, Fashion Television, Bibianne Gallery, Toronto
2004 Honors BFA, York University, Toronto, Canada 2004 V-tape Not For Profit Arts Organization Internship, Toronto
2003 CASA York Artist Exhibition Grant
2002 George Brown College, Graphic Design + Advertising, Toronto, Canada
2001 Ryerson University, Dance & Theatre, Toronto, Canada
Solo Exhibitions //
2004 "Nomadic" Fressen, Toronto
2003 "Found In Voids" The Gallery, York University, Toronto Selected
Group Exhibitions //
2017 "Photography Now" 8' x 12' lobby installation and gallery presented by Eye Buy Art, FCP Gallery, First Canadian Place, Toronto
2017 AAF, New York
2017 "Feminas Noche De Proyecciones" with Foto Feminas, Alimentación General Gallery, Buenos Aires
2016 AAF, New York
2016 "Bad Behaviour" SOFIA Collective, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto
2017 AAF, New york
2015 “Cuba Gust” Love Art TO, First Canadian Place, Toronto
2012 “Blossom Sunrise” Flash Forward - Outdoor Exhibition, Battery Wharf Harborwalk, Boston, MA
2011 “Drawn To Develop,” Street Kids International Auction, Distillery District Toronto
2010 “Drawn To Develop,” Street Kids International Auction, Distillery District Toronto
2009 Rouge Concept Gallery, Toronto 2009 “Drawn To Develop,” Street Kids International Auction, Distillery District Toronto
2008 “Drawn To Develop,” Street Kids International Auction, Distillery District Toronto
2007 “Rising Exhibition”, Contact Photography Festival, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
2006 Blue Mountain Foundation for the Arts Juror Showcase, Collingwood, Ontario
2006 Apertura Gallery, Toronto 2005 44th Annual Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto
2004 Naked In the House, Bibianne Gallery, Toronto
2004 Outdoor Art Exhibit, Historic Distillery District, Toronto
2004 "On Our Sleeves", Trinity Square Video 2004 43rd Annual Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto
2004 “Final Pictures”, Akasa Gallery, Toronto 2004 "Found in Voids", Flipside of Film Festival, Toronto
2003 Tranz<-->Tech Toronto International Media Art Biennial, Toronto
2003 "Foot by Foot", Akasa Gallery, Toronto
2003 42nd Annual Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto
2003 "Something For You To Peruse", Flipside of Film Festival, Toronto
--- Member of F Collective An initiative that asks brands + their agencies to pledge to present a female photographer option on each job, with a goal of increasing gender diversity in advertising photography.
Founding Member of SOFIA, an all-women photo collective and mentorship program