Sterling Shaw is a product of Philadelphia’s public school system. He entered the Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts in the year 2000 receiving his certificate in 2004. His work has been exhibited at The Painting Center New York, The Woodmere Art Museum, Delaware Center For Contemporary Art, Rosenfeld Gallery, The Main Line Art Center, Seraphin Gallery, Artists House Gallery and Gross McCleaf Gallery. Select prizes include: Woodmere Endowment Fund Memorial Prize 2012, the Betsy Meyer Memorial Prize 2006, William Emlen Cresson Memorial Travel Scholarship 2004.
His work is held in various private and public collections, including the Woodmere Art Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art.
He is currently working from a studio in West Philly.
Previously Shown at Kings Oaks
