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b. 2000, East Village, NYC

Shay Rutkowski is a multimedia artist abstracting landscape and memory. Shay is fascinated by how architecture and design factor into urban gentrification. Walking down certain streets, they want to re-imagine what they see, as a tool of protection and a means to memorialize a place. In Shay's works, they convey something that has gone awry for both the human and non-human worlds and weave together these realities. Shay primarily uses colors and shapes as a self-taught language to translate their observations and animate a sensory feeling. 

Recently, Shay has been studying tensions between corporate hyper-development and buildings created before the turn of the century. They gravitate towards finding something fantastical that grows in between these structures. 

PHOTO BY RAINER TURIM

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EXHIBITIONS /\ WORKS SHOWN 

2024                     Annual Faculty Exhibition, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

                             Large group exhibition. 

2024                     WWCC 18th Juried Exhibition, Dirty Franks, Philadelphia, PA

                             Small group exhibition.

2023                     125th Annual Exhibition, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

                             Large group exhibition. 

2023                     Little Windows, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA 

                             Large group exhibition.

2023                     Safe Colors, New Meridian Arts, New York, NY 

                             Book cover for author Thaddeus Rutkowski. 

2023                     Epilogue, Pilot Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

                             Large group exhibition.

2023                     Closetoten EP, Philadelphia, PA

                             Cover art for musician Nineishuman.

2023                     Bluestockings Bookstore, New York, NY 

                             East River Park, reprinted into zine format, for sale. 

2022                     Static Arts Collective, New York, NY 

                             Small group exhibition. 

2022                     Everyone Must Leave! Second State Press, Philadelphia, PA 

                             Small group exhibition. 

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