SHELLEY LAKE, Miami, FLORIDA 1954 -
EDUCATION
2021 School of Visual Arts, Master of Fine Arts
1997 Cleveland Chiropractic College, Doctor of Chiropractic
1979 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Master of Science in Visual Studies
1976 Rhode Island School of Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 SIGGRAPH Art Exhibition, Language of the Body, Denver, CO
2024 Piece of Me, HMVC Jumbotron Exhibition, Times Square, NYC, NY
2021 Artport, “Exposed”, July 30 - August 15, 2021, Kingston, New York
2021 SVA Thesis Exhibition, New York City
2021 Orlando Museum of Art, First Thursdays, Bella Donna - Orlando, FL
2021 Launched DoctorLake.com, Online Virtual SVA Thesis Document
2020 Launched LakePlaybook.com, Photographic portfolio of political candidates
2019 Art Basel, Spectrum Miami, Booth 917, Miami, FL
2019 React, NEoN Digital Arts Festival, “Polly Gone”, Dundee, Scotland
2019 Open Studios, School of Visual Arts, Art Practice Studio Exhibition, NYC, NY
2019 Video Forever, “Polly Gone”, Galerie Danysz, Paris, France
2018 Art Basel, Spectrum Miami, Solo Booth S531, Miami, FL
2018 Orlando Museum of Art, First Thursdays, Nerds in the City - Orlando, FL
2018 LACDA: Electron Salon, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Orlando Museum of Art, First Thursdays, Open Call - Orlando, FL
2018 LACDA Members Artists Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Proto_Pop at Dab Art, Ventura, CA
2017 Art Basel, Spectrum Miami, Solo Booth S1109 - Miami, FL
2017 Orlando Museum of Art, First Thursdays, Mettle With It - Orlando, FL
2017 Art of Medicine Gala, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
2017 TAG 2017 California Open Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Electron Salon, LACDA, Los Angles, CA
2017 International Top 40 Winners Exhibition, LACDA, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Perception and Reality II, SNAP! Downtown - Orlando, FL
2017 The Radical Eye, Aldo Castillo Gallery - Estero, FL
2017 Nude Nite Orlando, Central Florida Fairgrounds - Orlando, FL
2017 Arts for All Day, Orlando Museum of Art - Orlando, FL
2017 Launched Lake.camera, Online Photography Portfolio
2016 Art Basel, Spectrum Miami, Solo Booth S1109 - Miami, FL
2016 Orlando Museum of Art, First Thursdays, Going Goth - Orlando, FL
2016 City Arts Factory, The Art of Skateboarding - Orlando, FL
2016 Orlando Museum of Art, First Thursdays, Declaration of Mind - Orlando, FL
2016 SeeMe Exhibitions, “Creators Deserve to be Seen”, 2016-06-08, 4 Times Square
2016 Orlando Museum of Art, First Thursdays, Rock - Orlando, FL
2016 Camera USA, von Liebig Art Center, Daniel - Naples, FL
2016 Art Sheffield 2016, Seizure, Hearn/Lake - Sheffield, England
2016 Art is Everywhere, Squarespace Event, Times Square - New York City, NY
2016 Orlando Museum of Art, First Thursdays, Eat or be Eaten - Orlando, FL
2016 SNAP! Downtown, Constructed Abstractions - Orlando, FL
2016 Nude Nite Tampa - Tampa, FL
2016 Nude Nite Orlando, Artegon Marketplace - Orlando, FL
2015 Spectrum at Art Basel Miami - Miami, FL
2015 Endangered: Art for Apes, Miami Club Gallery - Miami, FL
2015 The Von Liebig Art Center, Call up the Figure - Naples, FL
2015 The Art of Medicine, Orlando Museum of Art - Orlando, FL
2015 The Winter Park Autumn Art Festival - Winter Park, FL
2015 Internet Archive, Archive.org, Polly Gone, May 26, 2015
2015 Orlando Museum of Art, First Thursdays, Medicine - Orlando, FL
2015 Artexpo New York Pier 94, Solo Exhibition Booth S119 - New York City, NY
2015 National Art Encounter, von Liebig Art Center - Naples, FL
2015 Photography and Technology, Orlando Museum of Art - Orlando, FL
2015 Contempo: Pushing the Limit, Lighthouse Art Center - Tequesta, FL
2015 Nude Nite Orlando - Orlando, FL
2014 Endangered, Miami Club Rum - Miami, FL
2014 Art Basel, Spectrum Miami, Booth S909 - Miami, FL
2014 SNAP! Attacks! - Orlando, FL
2014 18th Street, EZTV, Polly Gone - Santa Monica, CA
2014 Orlando Museum of Art, Inside Out - Orlando, FL
2014 Orlando Museum of Art, Art is Love - Orlando, FL
2014 Nude Nite, Orlando, FL February 13, 2014
2013 Art Basel, Spectrum Miami, Booth 617 - Miami, FL
2013 Automobiles Extraordinaires, Galerie 203 - Montreal, Quebec
2013 A Hero’s Journey, Orlando Museum of Art - Orlando, FL
2013 Nude Nite Tampa - Tampa, FL
2013 Nude Nite Orlando - Orlando, FL
2012 Art Basel Miami, Artexpo, Booth 614 - Miami, FL
2012 National Art Encounter, von Liebig Art Center - Naples, FL
2012 Urban Wild, Orlando Museum of Art - Orlando, FL
2012 RED, Stage Gallery Shakespeare Theater - Orlando, FL
2012 Back to the Future, Texas A&M Art Gallery - Laredo, TX
2012 Fall in Furniture, Scan Design - Orlando, FL
2012 Nude Nite - Orlando, FL
2011 49th Founders Exhibition, von Liebig Art Center - Naples, FL
2011 2011 Juried Show, Arts on Main - Ventura, CA
2011 Camera USA, von Liebig Art Center - Naples, FL
2011 Citiescape, Orlando Museum of Art - Orlando, FL
2011 Nude Nite, SODO Plaza - Orlando, FL
2010 Amway Center Inaugural Exhibition - Orlando, FL
2010 Snap! Celebrate the Photograph, City Arts Factory - Orlando, FL
2010 The Happy Show, Orlando Museum of Art - Orlando, FL
2010 Fall in Furniture Love, Scan Design - Orlando, FL
2009 Computer Baroque, Tate Modern - Bankside, London
2009 RISD New England Alumni Biennial - Watertown, MA
2009 Inaugural Exhibition, Sky Lake Studios - Winter Park, FL
2008 Art Dimensions, Fall Into Art - Los Angeles, CA
2008 Maitland Art Center, “Dining with an Artist”, September 2008
2008 Preston Contemporary Art Center, Xhibit - Mesilla, NM
2008 San Marino Gallery, Au Naturel - Pasadena, CA
2008 Artexpo NYC, SOLO exhibition - New York City, NY
2007 Artexpo Las Vegas, SOLO exhibition - Las Vegas, NV
2007 Betterlight Owners’ Conference, Speaker, May 31, 2007
2007 Artexpo NYC, SOLO exhibition - New York City, NY
2007 Stage Gallery, Festival of New Plays - Orlando, FL
2006 Valley Photo Center, Anything Goes - Springfield, MA
2006 Stage Gallery, UCF Shakespeare Festival - Orlando, FL
2005 Kentucky Museum, Ever-Changing Landscape - Louisville, KY
2005 Valley Photo Center, Large Format - Springfield, MA
2005 Watkins Gallery, Debut - Northampton, MA
2004 Galerie Luna, Chi of Ancestry - Salem, MA
2004 Watkins Gallery, Small Wonders - Lenox, MA
2004 Watkins Gallery, Inaugural Exhibition - Lenox, MA
2004 New City Art, Favorite Things - Easthampton, MA
2003 New City Art, Small World - Easthampton, MA
2003 CKSpace, Emerging Artists - Kansas City, MO
2001 Launched SkyLakeStudios.com, Easthampton, MA
1992 Liberty Science Center, Random-Object Stereograms - Jersey City, NJ
1990 Gensler and Associates, Spring Break - Los Angeles, CA
1990 EZTV Gallery, SIGGRAPH LA, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Sally Hawkins Gallery, Home Sweet Home - New York City, NY
1989 The Art Store Gallery, The New Photography - Los Angeles, CA
1989 National Computer Graphics Assn, Innovation - Mesa, AZ
1989 Future Perfect Gallery, The First Show - Los Angeles, CA
1989 Centre de Congres Auditorium, Imagina - Monte Carlo, Monaco
1989 American Film Institute, AFI/L.A. FilmFest - Los Angeles, CA
1989 19th National Educational Film & Video Festival - San Francisco, CA
1989 Fantasporto, Festival de Cinema do Porto - Porto, Portugal
1989 San Francisco International Film Festival - San Francisco, CA
1988 Natoli-Ross Gallery, Generic, (Lake/Duardo) - Santa Monica, CA
1988 Walt Disney World, Festival of the Masters - Orlando, FL
1988 24th Chicago International Film Festival - Chicago, IL
1988 ACM SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Art Show - Atlanta, GA
1988 Euphrat Gallery, De Anza College - Cupertino, CA
1988 Laforet Museum, American Pop Culture - Tokyo, Japan
1988 Intl Film & Television Festival of New York - New York City, NY
1988 Cites des Sciences et de L’Industrie, Images Calculees - Paris, France
1988 Bilbao International Film Festival - Bilbao, Spain
1988 ACM SIGGRAPH, 15th Annual Film and Video Show - Atlanta, GA
1988 Apple Computer, “Imagine” The Newport Resort, Newport Beach, CA
1988 Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Video Festival - Dallas, TX
1988 Public Broadcast Systems, Digital Dreams - PBS National Television
1988 The Beverly Center, Women in Film Festival - Los Angeles, CA
1987 Photographic Resource Center, High Tech New Pop - Boston, MA
1987 ACM SIGGRAPH, 14th Annual SIGGRAPH Art Show - Anaheim, CA
1987 EZTV Gallery, Computer Superstars - Los Angeles, CA
1987 California Museum of Science and Industry, Teapot - Los Angeles, CA
1986 Videoeil, (Lake/Hearn) - Lyon, France
1986 Berlin Film Festival, (Lake/Hearn) - Berlin, Germany
1986 National Video Festival, (Lake/Hearn) - Los Angeles, CA
1986 Denver Film Festival, Artificial Intelligence (Lake/Hearn) - Denver, CO
1986 Beard’s Fund Exhibition, (Lake/Hearn) - New York City, NY
1986 Video Marathon, (Lake/Hearn) - Copenhagen, Denmark
1986 American Center, Group Exhibition, (Lake/Hearn) - Paris, France
1986 Cedar Festival of Vallavolid, (Lake/Hearn) - Vallavolid, Spain
1985 L. A. C. E., Group Exhibition, (Lake/Hearn) - Los Angeles, CA
1985 Hallwall, Group Exhibition, Seizure, (Lake/Hearn) - Buffalo, NY
1983 Festival International du Nouveau Cinema - Montreal, Canada
1980 The Kitchen, Live Contortions - 1980-09-14 New York City, NY
1980 The Kitchen, Shelley Lake - 1980-04-13 New York City, NY
1979 M.I.T., Graduate Exhibition - Cambridge, MA
1976 Woods Gerry Gallery, Graduate Exhibition - Providence, RI
AWARDS
2021 Best in Show, Orlando Museum of Art, 1st Thursdays, “Venus of Willendorf”
2018 Finalist, Photoshop Guru Award, Photoshop World, "The Photographer"
2017 Image of the Year Award, Wayne Bennet, Orlando Camera Club, "Son of Man"
2017 Honorable Mention, Orlando Museum of Art, 1st Thursdays, "Kryptonite"
2017 First Place, Photoshop Guru Award, Photoshop World, Superman
2017 Artavita Artist of the Month, 1st Place Award, "Tai Chi"
2016 People’s Choice, Orlando Museum of Art, 1st Thursdays, “The Skull Queen”
2015 People’s Choice, Orlando Museum of Art, 1st Thursdays, “The Photographer”
2015 First Place, Orlando Museum of Art, 1st Thursdays, “Think Different”
2014 Silver Medal, Endangered, Photography, Caress
2014 Best in Category, Orlando Camera Club, Cormorant Fisherman, Color
2014 Best in Category, Orlando Camera Club, Snowstorm over Tsurui Mura, Monchrome
2014 Best in Category, Orlando Camera Club, Caress, Color
2014 Best in Category, Orlando Camera Club, Barn Door, Color
2014 First Place, Chasing the Light, Red Competition, Woman in a Red Hat
2014 Google Earthshots Photograph of the Day, Waiting, 22 August 2014
2014 Google Earthshots Photograph of the Day, Red Crown of Japan, 11 April 2014
2014 Google Earthshots Photograph of the Day, Caress, 2 April 2014
2013 First Place, 9th Annual Competition, Monochrome, Orlando Camera Club, Daniel
2013 Photoshop Guru Awards, Finalist, Photoshop World, Black Hawk Down
2012 Best in Category, Passion, Orlando Camera Club, Abandon
2012 Epson International Pano Award, Silver Medal, 360VR, Open Heart
2012 Epson International Pano Award, Silver Medal, 360VR, Studio
2012 Epson International Pano Award, Silver Medal, Nature, Cormorant Fisherman
2011 First Place, Annual Competition, Orlando Camera Club, Woman in a Red Hat
2011 Epson International Pano Award, Silver Medal, 360VR, Santa Maria di Nazareth
2010 First Place Creative, Annual Competition, Orlando Camera Club, Immortal Pine
2010 Epson International Pano Award, Bronze, Nature Category, Dry Brush
2010 Aurora Awards Grand Prize, Architectural Photography, Naples, FL
2010 Best in Category, Orlando Camera Club, Orlando, Fl, Deonte
2009 Aurora Awards Grand Prize, Architectural Photography, Orlando, Fl, Mandell
2008 First Place, Mixed Media, Artexpo NYC, Solo Exhibition, Monster
2007 First Place, Digital Illustration, CIPNE Image Competition, Monster
2006 First Place, Anything Goes, Valley Photo Center, Slot
2003 First Place, Best of Open Category, CIPNE Image Competition, Quaking Aspens
2003 Finalist, Small World, New City Art, Stereo Pairs
1997 Clinic Excellence Award, Cum Laude Doctorate, Cleveland Chiropractic College
1989 Still Picture Grand Prize, NICOGRAPH, Tokyo, Japan, 1,000 ?’s
1989 Finalist, Festival of the Masters, Walt Disney World, Fruit
1989 Silver medal, International Film and Television Festival of New York, Polly Gone
1987 First Place, AT&T Image Contest, Teapot
1986 Clio Award, Winner, Computer Animation, STP Oil Treatment, “Engine”
1985 Clio Award, Recognition, Animation, Rockwell International, “Manage”
1984 Clio Award, Recognition, Computer Animation, Cable Music Channel
1984 Clio Award, Recognition, Computer Animation, Star Frontiers Game
1984 Academy Award, Technical Achievement (Whitney/Demos), The Last Starfighter
1971 Orlando Sentinel, “The Winnah!”, First Prize Cover Design, Orlando, Florida
1971 Edgewater High School, Senior Year Book Cover Illustration, Orlando, Florida
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Albertson International, Winter Park, FL
American Embassy, Nigeria
Amway Center, Orlando, FL
Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA
Betterlight Corporate Collection, San Carlos, CA
Carr Auditorium, Orlando, FL
Alan and Betsey Harris Collection, Naples, FL
Human Rights Campaign Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
The Kitchen, New York City, NY
Peter and Eileen Norton, Santa Monica, CA
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
PUBLICATIONS
2024 Academia.com, Shelley Lake academic collection of essays, 2024
2021 Language of the Body, Shelley Lake, SVA Thesis Document, March 8, 2021
2019 The Vitruvian Man, Shelley Lake, December 12, 2019
2019 The Subliminal Seduction of Marcel Duchamp, Shelley Lake, October 13, 2019
2017 Perception and Reality II, SNAP! Downtown - Orlando, FL
2017 Orlando Arts, “Perception and Reality II”, Emily, May/June 2017 (page 26)
2017 Artborne, Cover Photography (Maxwell Hartley), Volume 2, Issue 2, 2017
2016 Naples Florida Weekly, Cover, “Camera USA”, June 16-22
2016 Gulfshore Life, “Worth a Thousand Words”, June, page 42
2016 Orlando Weekly, “The Skull”, Nude Nite – The Gist, February 10
2015 RISDxyz, “Lighthouse ArtCenter”, Spring/Summer, page 68
2014 Art Business News, “Top Emerging Artists”, Fall, page 28
2014 United Arts, Cover Illustration, 2014
2013 RISDxyz, “Shelley Lake 76 IL”, Fall/Winter, page 71
2013 ARTnews, “Blackhawk Down”, Advertisement, November, 2013
2013 Growing Bolder, Cover Photography, October
2012 Naples, “National Art Encounter” Modern Family, December, page 133
2012 Art in America, “The Politicians”, Advertisement, Annual August, page 69
2012 ARTnews, “Celestial Corvette”, Advertisement, Summer
2011 ARTnews, “Brooklyn Bridge”, Advertisement, September (page 71)
2010 Orlando Arts, “The Art of Amway”, Slash, November/December 2010 (page 31)
2010 Orange Appeal, Cover Photograph, November/December 2010
2010 ARTnews, “Biker Chick”, Advertisement, December 2010
2010 Orange Appeal, Cover Photography, November/December 2010
2010 Red Chair Project, “4 Elements”, August
2010 Art in America, “Love Triangle”, Advertisement, Annual, August 2010 (page 29)
2010 ARTnews, “Immortal Pine”, Advertisement, Editions, February 2010 (page 43)
2009 Panorific Puzzle, The Canadian Group, Stout Grove, Lefferts Pond, Alma Moulton Barn
2009 Art in America, “Hell in Heels” “Eight Ball”, Advertisement, Annual (page 55)
2008 ARTnews, “Monster”, Advertisement, June (page 89)
2007 ARTnews, “American Beauty”, Advertisement, March
2007 ARTnews, “Ecola Point”, Advertisement, Summer
2007 Orlando Style, “Her Agenda”, July/August, Volume 6 (page 46)
2007 View Camera, “Lefferts Pond”, Betterlight Advertisement, January/February
2006 ARTnews, “Midnight David”, Advertisement, December (page 95)
2006 ARTnews, “Slot”, Advertisement, May (page 127)
2005 ARTnews, “Quaking Aspens”, Advertisement, November (page 125)
2005 View Camera, “Lefferts Pond”, Betterlight Advertisement, (page 15)
2005 ARTnews, “Jenne Farm”, Advertisement, (page 81)
2005 Art in America, “Gifford Farmhouse”, Advertisement, Annual Guide (page 49)
2005 ARTnews, “Quaking Aspens”, Advertisement, February (page 89)
2004 Art in America, “Peep Show”, Advertisement, June/July (page 67)
2004 CIPNE, “2003 Image Competition Winners”, April (page 8)
2004 Artforum International, “Nothing to Wear”, Advertisement, Spring
2004 ARTnews, “The Guild”, Advertisement, February (page 77)
2003 ARTnews, “Flag”, Advertisement, November (page 109)
2003 ARTnews, “Times Square”, Advertisement, September (page 93)
2001 ARTFORUM, “Pat Hearn”, Passages: Mary Heilman, January 31, 2001
1995 Essential Orthopedic Tests, Self Examination aid, Board Review Series, January
1990 Photomethods, “The Dreambox”, March (pages 9-10)
1990 The Treasure of Computer Graphics, Justsystem, Japan (pages 30-31)
1989 CAVS, “Shelley Lake”, Otto Piene und das CAVS, 23.10.88 (pages 112-113)
1989 Computer Graphics World, “Graphics Portfolio”, September (Cover, page 82)
1989 IDEA, “Computer Superstars”, (Japan) no, 213 (pages 62-65)
1989 Computer Graphics World, “Graphics Portfolio”, September (Cover, page 82)
1989 Cray Channels, “Gallery”, Fall, 1989 “Fruit” (page 29)
1989 World Graphic Design Now, Katsui, Mitsuo and Kawahara, (Cover & p 142-143)
1988 Pixel, “Rebecca Allen et Shelley Lake”, (France), no. 1
1988 Artweek, “Generic”, Volume 19, Number 44, 1988-12-24, (page 7)
1988 Idea, “American Pop Culture Today”, (Japan) Vol. 2 by USSO (pages 48-49, 91)
1988 Imaging Sciences Offsite, “Imagine”, Apple Computer, Inc., page 3
1988 Cray Channels, “Gallery”, Spring, 1988 (page 37)
1988 Film and Video Show Catalog, “ACM SIGGRAPH ‘88”, (page 41)
1988 Otto Piene und das CAVS, “Shelley Lake artist”, September 17, 1988, page 112
1988 Cray Channels, “Gallery”, Teapot, Spring 1988, page 37
1988 Computer Graphics Anthology, Vol. X, Selected Works of 1988, Japan
1987 Film and Video Show Catalog, “ACM SIGGRAPH ‘87”, (page 21)
1985 American Video Awards, Cover Simulation from Cable Music Channel
1984 Creative Computer Graphics, Jankel and Morton, University Press, (pages 50-51)
1980 Ars Electronica, “Digital Portraits”, Linz, Austria, September 8, 1980 (page 106)
1971 Orlando Sentinel, “The Winnah!”, First Prize Cover Design, Orlando, Florida
REVIEWS
2024 HMVC, "Shelley Lake", Piece of Me, Times Square Jumbotron, February 2024
2024 Aldo Castillo Gallery, "Shelley Lake", Biography and Works, 2024
2018 Inside Artists, "Interview with Shelley Lake", March 1, pages 86-91
2017 Jenny Odell, “Polly Returns”, ELMCIP: Electronic Literature Knowledge base
2017 Jenny Odell, “On Polly Gone - An Interview with Shelley Lake”, August 2017
2016 Studio International, “Art Sheffield 2016” April 26, 2016
2013 Art Districts, “Shelley Lake: A Hero’s Journey”, June 30, 2013
2012 Leaver-Yap, Dealing With–, (pages 75-80)
2012 Leaver-Yap, Passing Time: Pat Hearn, 1980/81, September 1, 2012
2011 Winter Park Magazine, “Shelley Lake”, Cover (pages 32-34), December 2011
2009 Orange Appeal, “Sky Lake Studios: Coming Home”, May/June, (pages 22-24)
2009 Animate Projects Archive, Computer Baroque, Polly Gone, April 14, 2009
2006 Magnachrom, “Interview”, Volume 1, Issue 1, Build 2, June (pages 16-41)
2005 Technology Review, “Pioneering a Path through Arts and Healing”, Aug (p 46)
2005 Better Light Featured Photographer - Shelley Lake
2004 CIPNE, “How Members Market”, January (pages 3-5)
2004 The Summit, “Business Profile 2004”, March 16, 2004
1989 Artists of Art Forum, “Shelley Lake”, Spring Fall, Rancho Santiago College
1989 Betty Brown, “Shelley Lake”, January 1989
1989 Southwest Graphics, “NCGA Hosts Program, April 27”, April (page 13)
1989 Scanline, “NCGA Hosts Ms. Shelley Lake”, Volume 8, Issue 1 (page 6)
1989 Special Effects Business, “Women in Computer Animation”, Jan (pages 33-34)
1988 RISD AlumniNews, “Alumni Profile Shelley Lake”, June, 1988
1988 Orlando Sentinel, “Variety rounds out picture at Festival of the Masters”, 11-89
1988 Art New England, “High Tech”, New Pop”, March, page 23
1988 Illustration, “American Pop Culture Today”, (Japan) Feb (page 116)
1988 Microcad News, “Generating High End Images”, April (pages 14, 16)
1987 Primera Linea, “Las Computadoras de Hollywood” (Spain) no. 31
1987 Hardcopy, “And the Winners are…”, September (page 34)
1984 On Location, “The Last Starfighter”, Cover art, June (pages 98-173)
1984 Millimeter, “The Last Starfighter”, Hangar Simulation (page 92) June (pages 91-105)