EDUCATION
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M.F.A. in Image Text, 2025
Cornell University
M.F.A. in Painting + Drawing, 2018
University of California, Los Angeles
B.F.A. in Painting + Literary Arts Concentration, 2015
European Honors Program, Rome, Italy, 2014
Rhode Island School of Design
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Professor of Studio Art, Houston City College, Houston, Texas, 2025-08 – present
Visiting Researcher, Un-Writing Nature II, The Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research (CAD+SR), Spoleto, Italy, 2022-09 to 2022-10
Juror in Poetry, Vermont Studio Center Writing Program, Johnson, VT, 2022-06
Printmaking Instructor, Exceptional Children’s Foundation, South LA Art Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2022-02– 2022-05
Altadena Arts, Aveson School of Leaders, Teaching Artist/ Curriculum Writer, Altadena, CA, 2021-11 – 2022-03
Printmaking Instructor, Exceptional Children’s Foundation, San Pedro Art Center, San Pedro, CA, 2019-04 – 2022-02
Commissioned Installation Artist, Possible Productions, The L Word GQ, Showtime, Los Angeles, CA, 2021-01 – 2021-04
UCLA Teaching Assistant, Advanced Printmaking, Los Angeles, CA, 2017-03 – 2018-06
UCLA Teaching Assistant, Beginning Drawing, Los Angeles, CA, 2017-03 – 2017-06
UCLA Teaching Assistant, Beginning Painting, Los Angeles, CA, 2016-03 – 2016-06
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GROUP & SOLO EXHIBITIONS & POETRY READINGS
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Collective Study, Microscope Gallery, New York, NY, 2025
Reading, ALL A PART, Argos Warehouse, Ithaca, NY, 2025
Iya, Arthur Rose Museum, Claflin University, Orangeburg, SC, 2025
Reading, allapart x Dear Giulia, After 8 Books, Paris, France, 2025
Image Text Ithaca Reading, Experimental Gallery, Tjaden Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2024
Bert Long, Jr. Gallery Spring Survey Exhibition 2024, Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC), Houston, TX, 2024
Artist Talk & Panel, Bert Long, Jr. Gallery Spring Survey Exhibition 2024, (HMAAC), Houston, TX, 2024
Image Text Ithaca Reading, Experimental Gallery, Tjaden Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2023
New Beginnings, Olive Tjaden Gallery + Experimental Gallery, Tjaden Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2023
No Feedback, Pop-Up Show, Elmwood Gallery, Ithaca, NY, 2023
Image Text Ithaca Reading, Experimental Gallery, Tjaden Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2023
Winter Writers Residency Open Reading, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 2023-01
Mixed Methodologies, WIRWIR gallery, Picture Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2022-09
Writers on the Rise reading series, Vermont Studio Center, Johnston, VT, 2021-09
She Learned Herself Awake (Solo), Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles, CA, 2021-07
Frogtown Art Walk, The L Word GQ (Showtime), Los Angeles, CA, 2021
City Speaks 4, “Inna House” poem, NewTown Arts, Pasadena, CA, 2020-2022
Black Heritage Exhibition, Gallery Azul, San Pedro, CA, 2020
The Shape of Support, DAC Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2020
Doesn’t Whine by Blue Moon (show/reading), Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA, 2020
Etchings, Exceptional Children’s Foundation, San Pedro, CA, 2019
Soft Shadows, Chen’s, Brooklyn, NY, 2018
Vermont Studio Center, Open Studios, Johnson, VT, 2018
ARC I, Navel, Arts Research Collective, Los Angeles, CA, 2018
Every Unlikely Story (show/reading), Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA, 2018
New Work, New Release Gallery, New York, NY, 2018
Graduate Open Studios, UCLA Graduate Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 2018-06
SoCal MFA Juried Exhibition, Millard Sheets Art Center, Pomona, CA, 2018
UCLA MFA #1, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2018
Black Light(show/reading), Otis Graduate Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 2018
MFA 2018 Preview Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2017
UCLA Academic Conference for English Students (ACES), Poetry Reading & Panel, 2017
Self-Curated, UCLA Graduate Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 2017
Graduate Open Studios, UCLA Graduate Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 2017-12
Graduate Open Studios, UCLA Graduate Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 2017-06
Graduate Open Studios, UCLA Graduate Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 2016-12
Graduate Open Studios, UCLA Graduate Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 2016-06
Graduate Open Studios, UCLA Graduate Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 2015-12
Senior Degree Project Exhibition, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI, 2015
Hot Box, Ice Box, Philadelphia, PA, 2014
Palazzetto Cenci, Rhode Island School of Design, Rome, Italy, 2014
Circolo Degli Artisti, Rome, Italy, 2014
Tiny Biennale, Temple University, Rome Campus, Rome, Italy, 2014
Group Gallery Exhibition, Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI, 2012
Fellowship Student Exhibition, Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI, 2012
Painting Departmental Exhibition, Rhode Island School Design, Providence, RI, 2010
Martel Scholar Solo Exhibition, Contemporary Arts Museum’Houston, Houston, TX, 2010
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GRANTS and AWARDS
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Cornell Council of the Arts (CCA) grant, 2024-2025
Cornell AAP Partial Tuition Scholarship, 2023-2025
Lecky Foundation Scholarships, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, 2023
Un-Writing Nature II Scholarship, The Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research (CAD+SR), 2022
Writers on the Rise Honorarium, Rona Jaffe Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, 2021
Jay Macpherson Literary Arts Endowment, 2021
Fiona Mee Foundation Endowment, 2021
City Speaks 4 Honorarium, NewTown Pasadena Foundation, 2020
UCLA Toby Fund Prize, 2018
Swan Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, 2018
John Baldessari Family Foundation Scholarship, 2017
Westfield Scholarship for Emerging Artists, 2017
Resnick Scholarship, 2015-2017
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RESIDENCIES
Winter Writers Residency, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 2023-01
Un-Writing Nature II, The Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research (CAD+SR), Spoleto, Italy, 2022-09 to 2022-10
Printmaking Artist Residency, Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium, 2022-08 to 2022-09
Picture Berlin, Hybrid online Spring Session 2022, Berlin, Germany, 2022-05
Poetry, Politics, and Embodiment Online, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 2021-09
Summer Writers Residency Online, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 2021-10
Vermont Studio Center Residency, Poetry, Johnson, Vermont, USA, 2018-09
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PUBLICATIONS
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Shepherd, Kamaria, Artist and Writer. The Last Man. By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Edited by Meg Onli, Image Text Ithaca Press, 2025.
Shepherd, Kamaria. Life of a So-Called Texas Preacher. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2025.
Shepherd, Kamaria. "Salmon in the Sky Excerpt." Issue 3: Self as Multiple, Allapart, Image Text Ithaca, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2024.
Shepherd, Kamaria. "Siddy Grls." Issue 3: On Translation, Allapart, Image Text Ithaca, Cornell University, Berkeley, CA, 2024.
Shepherd, Kamaria. "Selfie Drawing." Issue 2: Apart, Allapart, Image Text Ithaca, Cornell University, Mexico City, Mexico, 2024.
Shepherd, Kamaria. "Homophonous." Issue 1: Rest, Allapart Image Text Ithaca, Cornell University, Paris, France, 2023.
Shepherd, Kamaria. “Mega Magenta’s Tortured Throne.” SKEW 03: digital hub, Level Ground, Los Angeles, November 2021.
Shepherd, Kamaria. Record of Creative Work. Los Angeles, University of California, 2018.