Line #2 Machine stitched fabric on canvas

Howdy!

I went to grad school in Savannah, GA and began selling handmade products and art while there.

Much of my art making is now focused on small to medium scale assemblages featuring reused materials and found objects. Part of my process for creating my assemblages is finding the source material, which leads me to estate sales, yard sales and reuse centers (like Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse).

While hunting for art materials I also find great vintage items that need rescuing and TLC. Many of these rescued treasures are offered in my Esty shop, Cowboy Goods, along with handmade pinback buttons and magnets.

You can purchase my designs on all sorts of clothing and home goods from my Threadless store, Cowboy Goods Artist Shop. Click over to the Contact & Links page of this site for more info on where to find my art and other goods.

Thanks for checking out my site and about page. Feel free to contact me with any questions.

 

Selected Exhibitions

  • Living with Art, Online Feature and Store, aapgh.org

  • SIX FEET, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space

  • AAP New Members Show, The Mine Factory, Pittsburgh PA

  • Creative Reuse, Percolate: Art Space, Gallery, Creative Laboratory, Wilkinsburg, PA

  • AAP Juried Group Show, Kauffman Gallery, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA, Curated
    by Professor Michael Campbell and Art 385: Art Seminar students

  • Staff Show, Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Myth America (solo), Most Wanted Fine Art, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Three Rivers Arts Festival (Juried Visual Art Exhibition), Pittsburgh, PA, Juried by Cecile Shellman, Curator of the August Wilson Center; Adam Welch, Curator for Pittsburgh Center for the Arts; and Lauren Wetmore, Curatorial Assistant to the 2013 Carnegie International

  • Darth and Dolls, Most Wanted Fine Art, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Dia de los Muertos, Most Wanted Fine Art, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Plastic Horizon (solo show), Wildcard, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Collecting the West, The Desert Caballeros Western Museum, Wickenburg , AZ, Curated by James Burns, Executive Director, Desert Caballeros Western Museum

  • Women of Steel, Men of Cloth, Suffolk Museum, Suffolk, VA, Curated by Nancy Kinzinger,
    Director, Suffolk Museum and Trudi Van Dyke, Director, Independent Curator

  • House Show, Margaret Strous Row, Savannah, GA

  • 96th Annual, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, Juror: Doug Fogle, Curator of Contemporary
    Art, Carnegie Museum of Art; Schorn Award recipient

  • Daniel Shapiro – Painting Exhibition (solo show) ShopSCAD, Savannah, GA

  • Identifying Subjectivity, Garfield Artworks, Pittsburgh, PA. Curator: Sara Abrams

  • Cowboys and Other Gentle Men (solo show), Alexander Annex Gallery, Savannah, GA

  • Artists for Charity, Desoto Row Gallery, Savannah, GA

  • Small Works, Red Gallery, Savannah, GA

  • Group Show, Maggie's, Savannah, GA

  • Faces of SCAD, Hamilton Hall Gallery, Savannah, GA.

  • ShopSCAD, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

  • Savannah Film Festival Studio Showcase, Orleans Gallery, Savannah GA. Curated by Fred Jesser

  • The Boys of Summer (The Last Gender Show), Gallery 28, Savannah GA. Invitational

  • In the Round, Jen Library/Boundary Hall, Savannah GA

  • All Dolled Up, The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen, Richmond, VA. Curated by Nancy Kinzinger,
    Director, Suffolk Museum and Trudi Van Dyke, Director, Ellipse Arts Center

  • Small Works, Exhibit A Gallery, Savannah GA

  • All Dolled Up, The Suffolk Museum, Virginia Beach, VA. Curated by Nancy Kinzinger, Director,
    Suffolk Museum and Trudi Van Dyke, Director, Ellipse Arts Center

  • Photo 2001, Ellipse Arts Center, Arlington, VA. Juror –K. Johnson Bowles, Director, Longwood
    Center for the Arts; Juror’s Award recipient

  • Interpretations: Works by Merri Nelson and Daniel Shapiro, George Washington University,
    Ashburn, VA

  • Fresh Works, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA. Juror –Phillip Brookman, Senior Curator of
    Photography, Corcoran Gallery of Art

  • 2001 All Media Juried Exhibition, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA. Juror – Trinket Clark,
    Independent Curator

  • National All Media Show, Touchstone Gallery, Washington DC. Juror – Stephen Phillips, Associate
    Curator, The Phillips Collection

  • The James McLaughlin Memorial Staff Exhibition, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC

  • Photo 2000, Ellipse Arts Center, Arlington, VA. Juror – Elizabeth Chang Krist, Editor of
    Photography, National Geographic

  • Art-O-Matic 2000, alternative space, Tenleytown, Washington, DC

  • Summer Salon 2000, Ellipse Arts Center, Arlington, VA. Juror – Marta Kuzma, Director, PA/Corcoran

  • Art Count 2000, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA

  • Solo Exhibition, February - March, Borders Books, Sterling, VA

  • Not All D.C. Art Sucks, MOCA D.C., Georgetown, Washington DC

  • Photo ’99, Ellipse Arts Center, Arlington, VA. Juror – Brooks Johnson, Curator of Photography,
    Chrysler Museum

Press

  • Rachel Lange, “PUFF’s Queer Marketplace at Assemble,” QueerPGH.com, April, 22 2019

  • Kurt Shaw, “‘Myth America’: Mixed Media Assemblages by Daniel Shapiro,” TribLive, August 5, 2015

  • Kurt Shaw, “Juried Exhibit Spotlights Regional Artists,” TribLive, June 12, 2013

  • “Visual Art,” Pittsburgh City Paper, September 5-12, 2012.

  • “Worth the Trip,” Mary Engelbreit’s Home Companion, April 2007, Vol 11, Issue 3.

  • “ShopSCAD Features Shapiro’s Paintings,” The Chronicle, October 13, 2006

  • “Back Page,” Washington City Paper, February 11-17, 2000.