
AMY SHELTON PHOTOGRAPHY
Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2017 | BFA, Studio Art: Design and Media Arts, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
Curatorial & Digital Media Projects
2025 | Documenting Everyday Life: Illumination of the Mundane, Purple Window Gallery, Chicago, IL
2024 | Queer Joy, Purple Window Gallery, Chicago, IL
2021–2024 | Co-Producer & Co-Host, The Hot the Cat Show (Podcast/Twitch)
2023 | Curatorial Committee, Dispatch Gallery (Online/Mobile)
Two-Person Exhibitions
2025 | Rewinding Roots: Return to Ground (with Angelina Diana), Purple Window Gallery, Chicago, IL
2024 | Pedestrian Party (with Natalie Pivoney), Purple Window Gallery, Chicago, IL
2023 | FONDAGE (with Claire Burke-Dain), Purple Window Gallery, Chicago, IL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 | PANTONE Chalk Violet , The Waiting Room, Kansas City, MO
2025 | Terrain Biennial, Lubeznik Center for the Arts (with Unpacked Mobile Gallery), Michigan City, IN
2024 | Group Exhibition, Lubeznik Center for the Arts (with Purple Window Galley), Michigan City, IN
2023 | Group Exhibition, STNDRD, Granite City, MO
2023 | Picasso: Fifty Years Later, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
2022 | Orientation, Purple Window Gallery, Chicago, IL
2020 | Hello Neighbor!, Purple Window Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018 | Punk Space/Cyanotype Contraceptives, The Milfcrate, Aurora, IL
2016 | Arising Diversity, Gallery 215, DeKalb, IL
Solo Exhibitions
2017 | Pride and Protest, DeKalb Area Women's Center, DeKalb, IL
2017 | Dirty Laundry: Contraceptives care exposed with cyanotype, Private Gallery, DeKalb, IL
2016 | Punk Space, Private Gallery, DeKalb, IL
2015 | Work Studies, Jack Arends Hall, DeKalb, IL
Bibliography (Press & Features)
2025 | The Chicago Reader
2021 | M.A.A.B.P Zine, Issue I
2020 | Sixty Inches from Center
2019 | NON Magazine, Plymouth College of Art, United Kingdom
Published Art Documentation
Technical documentation for artists/galleries appearing in:
ABC News, Forbes Travel Guide, Bridge Chicago, Comp Magazine, The Visualist.
Professional Experience
2025–Present | Documentation Photographer, Crosswalk Gallery, Chicago, IL
2020–Present | Commercial Proof of Performance Photographer, Intersection, Chicago, IL
2019–Present | Documentation Photographer, Cleaner Gallery, Purple Window Gallery, Unpacked Mobile Gallery
2016–2017 | Studio Assistant, Luis Sahagun (Sculpture), Chicago, IL