About Bill Shelley
"Good work should feel authentic. I strive to do work that reflects how I see the world. Being able to risk failure in art is an important ingredient for success. Making art is an exciting process: Sometimes all a piece needs to get to the finish line is to subtract whatever is irrelevant, sometimes just one thing needs to be added, and sometimes it’s a matter of gathering up what you've learned and starting over."
EDUCATION
Brooklyn Museum Art School, Max Beckmann Scholarship recipient
University of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Bachelor of Fine Arts
Sacramento City College
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 Intersectional 6.0 Pride and Prejudice, PrideArt, Berlin, Germany
2023 Stars & Stripes, Hammerfriar Gallery, Healdsburg, California
2023 True North, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, California
2022 Being Human: The Figurative Show, San Francisco Women Artists, San Francisco, California
2021 Bill Shelley and Shelley Spira Burns, Hammerfriar Gallery, Healdsburg, California.
2021 Our Precious Earth, Santa Rosa Art Center , Santa Rosa, California
2020 The de Young Open, de Young Museum, San Francisco, California
2020 Vote 2020!, Santa Rosa Art Center, Santa Rosa, California
2020 Sonoma County: Flattening the Curve, Blasted Art Gallery, Santa Rosa, California
2019 Selected Hammerfriar Artists – Spring Open House, Hammerfriar Gallery
2019 Member’s Show, Santa Rosa Arts Center
2018 13 Years, Hammerfriar Gallery, Healdsburg, California
2017 Small Works, Big Deal, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, California
2017 Bill Shelley & Chris Beards: Somewhere Else, Blasted Art Gallery, Santa Rosa, California
2107 Berlin Drawings (solo show), Hammerfriar Gallery, Healdsburg, California
2017 Shelley Spira Burns and Bill Shelley, Hammerfriar Gallery, Healdsburg, California
2016 Small Works Show, Hammerfriar Gallery, Healdsburg, California
2016 Mundane Architecture (solo show), Artspace1616, Sacramento, California
2015 Like Nothing Seen Before: Collage and Assemblage Today, Chroma Gallery, Santa Rosa, California
2015 Who We Are, Hammerfriar Gallery (solo show), Healdsburg, California
2015 Metamorphosis: The Art of Change and Rebirth, Chroma Gallery, Santa Rosa, California
2014 Seventeen, Hammerfriar Gallery, Healdsburg, California
2013 8th National Juried Exhibition - Juror’s Award, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, California
2013 The Male Figure: Form & Expression (solo show), Sacramento Temporary Contemporary Gallery
2013 Summer Show, Hammerfriar Gallery, Healdsburg, California
2012 Facing Forward, Hammerfriar Gallery, Healdsburg, California
2011 Frontburner Phantom Art Space, Windsor, California
2011 Summer Show, Skinner-Howard Contemporary Art, Sacramento, California
2011 Valentine Show, Skinner-Howard Contemporary Art, Sacramento, California
2010 Spring Show, Gallery 9, Culver City, California
2009 Mahoney Library, Santa Rosa Junior College, Petaluma, California
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Doyle Collection, Frank P. Doyle Library, Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, California
University of Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
PRINT & E-MEDIA
Studio / 50 Sonoma County Artists
Studio Four Magazine, Winter edition 2013
Hammerfriar Gallery
Hammerfriar Gallery, located in Healdsburg, California, represents established and emerging Bay Area conceptual artists. Since its opening in 2005, Hammerfriar has grown to establish itself as an important part of Sonoma County's visual arts scene.
Tel. 707 473-9600
132 Mill Street, Ste. 101
Healdsburg, CA 95448
Hours:
Tuesday - Friday, 10 am-6 pm
Saturday, 11 am-5 pm
closed Sunday & Monday