CV
MFA
Fondazione Arte Della Seta, Florence, Italy/
University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
BFA
University of Poitier, Poitiers, France/
University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
French Art History minor
Manufactures Nationale des Gobelins, Paris and Usez, France
Tapestry Apprenticeship under Gobelins master weavers
2024
S’hade Garden/ solo exhibition
Sarratt Gallery, Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee
2023
Weaving Data / curated by Theo & Nancy Downes-Le Guin
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Portland State University
Portland, Oregon
2020
Malleable Pursuits of Protection; recent works by Sarah Nance & Shelley Socolofsky
AB Gallery, Portland State University
Portland, Oregon
2019
Juxtaposition: Contemporary Collage
Barrett Art Center
Poughkeepsie, New York
Tapestry International Invitational
Queen Elizabeth Community & Cultural Center
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
2018
By Way of the Matrix
Praxis Fiber Workshop Gallery
Cleveland, OH
Material Turn/ International small group
FOFA Gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada
Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia University
World Tapestry Now/ International
American Tapestry Alliance online exhibition, Wlodzimierz Cygan, juror
Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts, Lodz, Poland
2016
Tapestry: Contemporary Takes on an Ancient Art Form / Invitational
Featherstone Center for the Arts, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Faculty Biennial, Hoffman Gallery / Invitational
Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, Oregon
Pacific Time Zone, Jurors Award/The Arts Center, Corvallis, Oregon
2015
Materialities, Sandra J Blain Gallery / Juried International
Arrowmont School of Art & Craft, Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Cauldron / Invitational Solo
A Wrinkle in Time Festival/ Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Portland, Oregon
The Art is the Cloth: A Series of Reflections / Juried North America
von Auersperg Art Gallery, Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Massachusetts
The Art is the Cloth: A Series of Reflections / Juried North America
Walton Center Gallery, George School, New Town, Pennsylvania
2014
The Art is the Cloth: A Series of Reflections / Juried North America
NHIA Amherst Gallery, New Hampshire Institute of Art
Manchester, New Hampshire
2024 | Artist Residency Workshop
La Romita
La Romita School of Art & Monestary, The Art of Tapestry and Natural Dyeing, Terni, Italy
2020 | Artist Residency
The Civita Institute
Civita di Bagnoregio, Italy
2020 – present | President
American Tapestry Alliance
Board of Directors/ International non-profit
2020 – present | Professor
Portland State University
School of Art + Design, Portland, Oregon
2024 | Lecture
Dust to Matter: Matter to Dust
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art/
Portland State University, Portland, OR
2011 – Present | Faculty
IB Visual Arts Seminars, 2D Design/ Drawing/ Color Theory/ Painting
Tigard High School, Tigard, Oregon
2018 | Artist Residency
The Jacquard Center
Hendersonville, North Carolina
2017 | Lecture
image:pattern:structure
Surface Design Association Making Our Mark
Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
2010 – 2017 | Professor
Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, Oregon
Faculty, Fibers and General Studies
2016 | Committee Chair
MFA Program/ Oregon College of Art & Craft
Graduate Thesis Committee
Juror/ 67th Annual – Salem Art Fair & Festival
Salem Art Association, Salem, Oregon
2011 – Present | Mentor
AC&D Graduate program
Pacific Northwest College of Art/ Oregon College of Art
& Craft collaborative, Portland, Oregon
2015 | Lecture
Textiles in the Expanded Field
Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon
Workshop
Traces, Layers, Narratives & Surfaces
Intermountain Weavers Conference
Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado
Lecture
Time and Multi Media Work / Wrinkle in Time
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Portland, Oregon
2013 | Lecture
Shape Shifting / Outside the Line; Small Tapestry Int’l
Handforth Gallery, Tacoma, Washington
Workshop
Traces, Layers, Narratives & Surfaces
American Tapestry Alliance
Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington
Lecture
Artist Reproductions: Textiles from Analogue to Digital
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2008 – 2010 | Professor
University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
Adjunct, Fibers Department
The Civita Institute/ Civita di Bagnoregio, Italy (forthcoming)
AC Boutique Hotel /Portland, Oregon
Hamersly Library/ Western Oregon University, Monmouth, Oregon
Public Valley Library/ Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
Chemeketa Community College Library, Salem, Oregon
2019
Fellowship
2019 Astra Zarina Fellow
The Civita Institute/ Civita di Bagnoregio, Italy
2008
Fellowship
Ruth & Harold Chenven Foundation
New York, NY
Award
Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Surface Design Association / National
2006
Honorarium
Art in the Governor’s Office
Oregon Arts Commission, Salem, Oregon
Scholarship
Handweavers Guild of America/ National
2005 | Best of Show
Delaplaine Visual Arts, Frederick, Maryland
2001 | Fellowship
Individual Artist Grant
Oregon Arts Commission, Salem, Oregon
1997 | Award
Marijike M van Linden Award, Fiber National
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1994 | Residency
Salem Art Association, Salem, Oregon
2020
Online Feature
What’s on your Loom, DigitalWeaving Norway
2019
Catalogue
Tapestry International, Canadian Tapestry & Texture Center
2015
Catalogue
Materialities, Surface Design Association/ Numita Gupta Wiggers
Catalogue
The Art is the Cloth: A Series of Reflections / Micala Sidore
Review
The Art is the Cloth / Cori Urban; The Republican, Massachusetts, March 18
2012 | Catalogue
Public Art Archive of North America / WESTAF
Catalogue
Fiber Arts Now / Rebecca Twist, Pacific University
Library
2011 | Roster
Public Arts Roster, Regional Arts & Culture Council
Oregon Arts Commission
2006 | Catalogue
Real Physical Labor: Material Understanding and the Wisdom of the Weaver’s Hand / Jessica Hemmings
2005
Feature
Fertile Associations: the Tapestries of Shelley Socolofsky / Mary Lane, Fiber Arts, Vol.32, #1
Feature
The Work of Shelley Socolofsky / Ming-Whe Lion, Artist Magazine, Taiwan