Pauline Shaw

Pauline Shaw (b. 1988, Kirkland, USA) creates sculpturally rooted works informed by genealogies of craft, intertwining personal histories, cultural inheritance, scientific inquiry, and mysticism. Best known for large-scale felts and installations, her abstracted imagery draws from diverse sources including MRI-scans, ancestral textile patterns, early cartography, and ornate motifs to create dually fluid and fragmentary compositions with mythopoetic narratives.

Shaw has recently exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Frost Museum, Miami; The Shed, New York; Chapter NY, New York; Naranjo 141, CDMX, Mexico; and Newchild Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium. Her work is held in international public and private collections including at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and JP Morgan Chase Collection.