One Person Exhibitions

2011 Skull Couch: Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT

Mirror Ball: One Art Space, NY, NY

2010 Blake Shirley: Contemporary Gallery, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Laundry Day: Barnes-Franklin Gallery, Tunxis Community College, Farmington, CT

2009 Purple and Blender: Curated by Barry Rosenberg, Jorgensen Gallery, Storrs, CT

Ben Schwab and Blake Shirley: Albany Center Gallery, NY

2008 Blake Shirley Selected Works: University Gallery at UMass Lowell, Lowell, MA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011 Double Time: Akus Gallery, ESCU, Willimantic, CT

2010 Radius: Curated by Monica Ramirez-Montagut, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum / Ridgefeild Guild of Artist Galleries, Ridgefield, CT

Vector Video: Participant Inc., NY

Painting NOW: Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery, Fall River, MA

Figurative Distance: CCT Gallery, Hartford, CT

2008 New Work: La Motta Gallery, Hartford, CT

Sketchbook Project: traveling show, Chicago Art Source Gallery, Chicago, IL, Museum of Design Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, 3rd Ward Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington, DC, Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA

Coast to Coast: Curated by Kathryn Myers, Dakshina Chitra Gallery, Muttakadu, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Ruchika’s Art Gallery, Mirimar, Panaji, Goa, India

Painting as Presence: Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT

Plus 3 Ferris Wheels: traveling Show, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Richmond Center Art Gallery, Richmond, VA, University of Buffalo Center for the Arts, Buffalo, NY, Alfred University, Alfred, NY

2007 50/50: Art Space Gallery, Willimantic, CT, Artwell Gallery, Torrington, CT

A Collection of Similar Houses: Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT

Cultural Identity: Alexy Von Schlippe Gallery, Groton, CT

Parallel Worlds: National Gallery of the Arts, Sophia, Bulgaria

CAA Exhibition: Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY

2006 Out Video 2006: Traveling Show, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Volgograd

Snap to Grid: Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, Los Angeles, CA

2005 Small Works: Soho20 Gallery, Chelsea, NY

AWARDS

2011- Fellowship to Vermont Studio Center

2010- Artist Grant from Connecticut Commission on the Arts