Education
1997 MFA, Yale School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut
1996 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
1993 BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Awards And Residencies
2024 Baker Artist Awards, Baltimore, Maryland
2022 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, Virginia
2017 Franz and Virginia Bader Fund Grant
2017 Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, New York
2016 Rubys Artist Grant, Baltimore, Maryland
2007 Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize, Baltimore, Maryland
2005 Bethesda Painting Prize, Bethesda, Maryland
2002 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award and Grant, Baltimore, Maryland
1998 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award and Grant, Baltimore, Maryland
1997 Phelps Burden Award, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Visiting Artist Lecturer
2019 Visiting artist and critic, Yale School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut
2019 Visiting artist and critic, Cranbook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
2019 Visiting artist, critic, and master class, New York Academy of Art, New York City
2019 Visiting artist and critic, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2018 Panelist, China National Academy of Painting, Beijing, China
2014 Visiting artist and critic, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Painting in the Dark, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York City
2022 Black Velvet, If You Please… (Curated by Michael Sherman), Carlye Packer HQ, Los Angeles, California
2019 Blue-Collar Baltimore: New American Realism, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York City
2013 Harry, Pinkard Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
2008 Violence and Tranquility, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
2006 New Paintings by Tony Shore, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
2006 ‘Back in Black’ A Decade of Velvet Paintings, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, Maryland
2004 Hidden Truths, New Paintings by Tony Shore, C. Grimaids Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
2000 Tony Shore, New Works, Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
1998 Tony Shore, Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
1997 No Place Like Home, Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland
Group Exhibitions
2022 A Few of My Favorite Things (Curated by Michael Sherman), Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2020 The Doors of Perception: New Approaches to Realism, KuBe Art Center, Beacon, New York
2020 Darkness Before Dawn: Art in a Time of Uncertainty, KuBe Art Center, Beacon, New York
2020 Variations in Line: From Baltimore to Beijing, to Abidjan, and Back to New York, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York City
2019 Fears of Art, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York City
2018 Inaugural Alumni Biennial Exhibition (Juried by Claire Gilman), Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
2018 Sabbatical Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
2016 Baltimore Rising, Riggs and Leidy Galleries, Maryland Institute Collage of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
2016 Trawick Prize Exhibition, Gallery B, Bethesda, Maryland
2015 MICA Then and Now, Noyes Museum, Oceanville, New Jersey
2013 MICA Then and Now, KuBe Art Center, Beacon, New York
2011 Sabbatical Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
2011 Power Struggles, Goucher College, Towson, Maryland
2009 The American Scene, The Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, Delaware
2008 Cool, George Adams Gallery, New York City
2008 Salon, Sloan Fine Arts, New York City
2008 Trawick Prize, Heineman Myers Contemporary, Bethesda, Maryland
2008 Born Bornagain, FiveMyles, Brooklyn, New York
2007 Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize Exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
2006 Resident Artist Exhibition, Museum de Rocheforte, Rocheforte-en-terre, France
2006 Bethesda Art Prize Exhibition, Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland
2000 Biennial 2000, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
2000 Pogo, Contemporary Arts Collective Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada
2000 Culture of Class, (Curated by Will Hipps), Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
1999 Heaven and Earth, Yale Norfolk School of Painting, Norfolk, Connecticut
1999 Gen Art: New Visions’98: Under Construction, (Curated by Anastasia Aukeman and Debra Singer), West Chelsea Art Building, New York City
1998 20/XX (Twenty Years/Twenty Artists), Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
1998 New Painting: Erin Riley, Tony Shore, and Su-en Wong, Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire
1998 A Skowhegan Decade, David Beitzel Gallery, New York City
1997 MFA Thesis Show, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut