Biography
Lauren Shaw received her MFA in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design, where she studied with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. She is Professor Emerita of Photography at Emerson College in Boston and a co-founder of New England Women in Photography. Shaw’s work has been exhibited widely throughout the United States and is in the permanent collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Art Institute of Chicago; The Newark Museum of Art, NJ; Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME; and the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Her multimedia project Maine Women: Living on the Land (2005)—which included a photographic installation, a book, and a documentary film—was exhibited at the Farnsworth Art Museum and traveled throughout the United States. Her documentary films include: A Drop in the Bucket (2010), Angkor’s Children (2014), If They Had Known (2016), About John (2019), and Routine Interrupted (2022). Shaw lives and works in Boston.
