Painter and printmaker David Shapiro was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1944. He earned his BFA from the Pratt Instutute and his MFA from Indiana University. He taught at John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, IN (1966), Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI (1968-'69), University of Birdgeport, CT and simultaneously at the Pratt Institute, NY (1970-'71), Barnard College, NY (1971-'72), and Parsons School of Design, New York (1974-'80). He was known for his multi-media paintings that incorporated materials such as pumice and metal filings into the paint, as well as his subject matter: abstractions that were influenced by his studies in Hindu and Buddhist religions. He died in 2014. 

Solo Exhibitions
2015:  David Shapiro, Leslie Sacks Gallery, CA (posthumous)
2005, 2001, 1998:  The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA 
1999:  The Fine Art Society, London, England; Numark Gallery, Washington, DC; Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Canada. 
1998: St. Louis, MO; Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998, 1996:  Elliot Smith Contemporary Art
1997:  Numark Gallery, Washington, DC; Sen Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. 
1996, 1994, 1990: : Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Canada;
1996, 1995, 1990, 1998: Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994:  Kaoru Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 
1992:  Davidson Gallery, Seattle, WA; "Twenty Year Retrospective", Indiana University Fine Art Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN; Thompson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1990:  Kansas City Artist Coalition, Kansas City, MO; Kaoru Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Fay Gold
1990, 1988, 1987, 1985, 1983, 1981, 1979: Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami, FL 
Gallery, Atlanta, GA; Dolan/Maxwell Gallery, New York, NY and Philadelphia, PA
1989:  Thompson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 
1989, 1988, 1987:  Dolan/Maxwell Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1988:  Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA; Souyun Yi Gallery, New York, NY
1987:  Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Thompson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1986:  Vandewoude-Tananbaum Gallery, New York, NY
1985, 1983, 1981, 1970:  Getler/Pall Gallery, New York, NY 
1985:  Thompson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1983:  Vandewoude - Tananbaum Gallery, New York, NY; Styria Studio, New York, NY; Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN 
1982:  Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN; Canton Art Institute, Canton, OH; Butler Institute of America Art, Fort Wayne, IN
1979, 1978:   Alexander Milliken Gallery, New York, NY  
1979, 1974, 1973, 1971:  Poindexter Gallery, New York, NY 
1978:  Huntington Galleries, Huntington, WV; Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL 
1973:  William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1973, 1971: Gertrude Kasle Gallery, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions
1995:  US Print Grafikan Paja Himmelblau Tampere, Finland; "Frameless", Inaugural International Invitational Biennial, Mie Cultural Center, Ise, Japan
1990:  "Eleventh British International Print Biennial", traveling show, Bradford Art Galleries and Museums; "Echo Press: A Decade of Printmaking", Indiana University; Museum of Art, Bloomington, IN; "Art on Paper", Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro 
1989:  "Myth Symbol Dream: Structures of the Unconscious", Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington; Graphic Biennial, exhibition sponsored by U.S.I.A., Ljubljana,
Yugoslavia and the University of Florida Gallery, USA; "Mind and Matter", traveling exhibition sponsored by U.S.I.A., to Seoul, Tokyo, Japan; New Zealand, Australia, Bangkok, Manila, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore
1988:  23rd National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY; Contemporary American Prints, Garton & Cooke, London; “Combination Prints - 1980's”, New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ 
1983:  World Print Four, San Francisco, CA. 
1982:  Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY. 
1981:  22nd National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY; Recent Acquisitions, Brooklyn Museum, NY 
1980:  Recent Acquisitions, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY. 

Selected Public Collections
Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, San Francisco, CA. 
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY. 
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH. 
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH. 
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. 
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA. 
Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL. 
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN. 
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN. 
Kresge Art Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. 
Kunsthalle der Stadt Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany. 
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL. 
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC. 
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. 
North York Performing Arts Center, North York Ontario, Canada. 
Ohio University Art Museum, Athens, OH. 
Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia, PA. 
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA. 
Soloman Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY. 
University of Iowa Art Museum, Iowa City, IA. 
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. 
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. 
Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. 
Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. 
Aichi Prefecture Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan 

Selected Corporate Collections
American Express 
Amoco 
Ashland Oil Corporation 
Bayer, USA 
The Chase Manhattan Bank 
Continental Grain Corporation 
First National Bank of Chicago 
General Mills 
Highlands Group 
Holder Construction Company 
Hospital Corporation of America 
Mobile Oil Corporation 
Northern Telecom 
Philadelphia Savings Fund Society 
Security Pacific National Bank 
Southeast Banking Corporation 
3M Corporation 
Union Bank of Switzerland (Canada) 
Haworth Canada, Toronto 
American Telephone & Telegraph 
Bank of New York 
Coca Cola 
Dun & Bradstreet International 
The General Electric Corporation 
Hewlett-Packard

Visiting Artist
1993:  Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT. 
1991:  Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO; Southern Graphic Association Convention, Kansas City, MO (lecture) 
1988:  University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. 
1986:  Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA. 
1985:  Iowa State University, Ames, IA. 
1982:  Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. 
1981:  Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY; State University of New York at Buffalo; State University of New York at Purchase; Nova Scotia School of Art & Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Drake University, Des Moines, IA
1973:  Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO.