Shelby Sharie Cohen — Résumé
Career Highlights
2024 – Archives acquired by The Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
2022 – Featured in Radical Desire: Making On Our Backs Magazine, Hirshland Gallery, Cornell University
2022 – Awarded Portrait of the Year, Nevada County Camera Club (“Newborn Four Days Old”)
2021–2023 – Featured in Swann Auction Galleries’ LGBTQ+ Art sales
2021 – On Our Backs cover photography featured at Cornell University
2021 – Awarded Center for Cultural Innovation Grant, Los Angeles, CA
1997 – Featured in Nothing But the Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image (Cleis Press)
1997 – Lambda Literary Award & Firecracker Award for Nothing But the Girl
1986 – Contributing Photographer, Gay Games (with On Our Backs)
1985–1989 – Contributor, On Our Backs Magazine
1985–1996 – Staff Photographer, Theatre Rhinoceros, San Francisco, CA
1984 – Graduated, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA
Selected Exhibitions
2024 – A Celebration of Water, Granucci Gallery, Grass Valley, CA
2024 – Wild and Scenic Art Exhibition, Granucci Gallery, Grass Valley, CA
2023 – Indigifest, Rama Institute, Los Angeles, CA
2022 – Radical Desire: Making On Our Backs Magazine, Cornell University, Hirshland Gallery, Ithaca, NY
2021 – Raw Anatomy, Tom of Finland Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
2020 – Nevada County Camera Club, Group Exhibitions & Awards, Nevada City, CA
2019 – LGBTQ Historical Photographs, San Francisco Public Library
2010 – Fabled Asp, San Francisco Public Library
2001 – Dance Graduates Exhibit, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1987–1998 – Exhibitions, San Jose Repertory Theatre, San Jose, CA
1983–1996 – Exhibitions, Theatre Rhinoceros, San Francisco, CA
1985 – Academy of Art University Graduation Show, San Francisco, CA
Auctions
2023 – Swann Auction Galleries, NY – LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History (Lots 284–286)
2022 – Swann Auction Galleries, NY – LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History (Lots 346–348)
2021 – Swann Auction Galleries, NY – LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History (Lots 178–180)
Awards
2022 – Portrait of the Year, Nevada County Camera Club (“Newborn Four Days Old”)
2021 – Center for Cultural Innovation Grant, Los Angeles, CA
1997 – Lambda Literary Award, Nothing But the Girl
1997 – Firecracker Award, Nothing But the Girl
Selected Publications & Features
Nothing But the Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image (First ed. 1996, Second ed. 1998) — Includes self-portrait Live to Ride, two-page spread with Catherine Opie
On Our Backs Magazine (1985–1989) — Multiple covers and features
Spectator Magazine, Oakland, CA (Dec 1996)
Coverage in: The San Francisco Chronicle, The Sentinel, Coming Up, East Bay Times, San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Bay Guardian, San Francisco Examiner (1986–1996)
Collections
Cornell University Library, Human Sexuality Collection, Division of Rare & Manuscript Collections, Ithaca, NY
San Francisco Public Library, James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco, CA
Leather Archives & Museum, Chicago, IL
The Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Private collections including Lisbet Tellefsen, Christa Hillhouse, Skeeter Barker, and othersShelby Sharie Cohen — CV