Bethany Shorb was born in Boston, MA. She received her MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art and BFA from Boston University. Her photography and product design work have been widely published in the United States and abroad; her visual art and product work have been exhibited throughout the US and included in numerous private and public collections. Her musical projects have performed at many venues and festivals across North America including the Guggenheim Museum in New York and Movement: Detroit’s Electronic Music Festival. As a founding member of OmniCorpDetroit, Detroit’s first hacker/makerspace, she has exhibited at the inaugural Maker Faire Detroit 2010, ‘11, and ‘12 and World Maker Faire New York, receiving seven Editor’s Choice Awards.
Shorb has served as a curatorial collaborator at Gallery Project, Ann Arbor’s leading non-profit venue for challenging contemporary art and The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit’s “New Wave” Board. Most recently Shorb was a visiting artist in printmaking at Summit Series, has shown at the 2013 Luciano Benetton Foundation Small Works Series at the Venice Biennale and completed time as an artist in residence at the Red Bull House of Art Detroit for their 7th Cycle and Synesthesia Sound and Art exhibition.
Her work been featured on the Martha Stewart Show, PBS Newshour, HGTV, CBS Detroit, Fox 2 Detroit; WDIV Detroit, various design blogs such as WIRED, Boing Boing, io9, thrillist, NotCot, Refinery29, Design Milk, The Consumerist, Uncrate and print publications such as Grazia France, Le Figaro, The New York Times, Time Out New York, Time Out Chicago, Antenna, Hemmings Muscle Machines, Sports and Exotic Car Magazine, Motorcyclist, Brides, Make Magazine, Details, Nylon, Fiberarts, Bust, Adorn, URB, BPM, and more.
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Shorb has served as a curatorial collaborator at Gallery Project, Ann Arbor’s leading non-profit venue for challenging contemporary art and The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit’s “New Wave” Board. Most recently Shorb was a visiting artist in printmaking at Summit Series, has shown at the 2013 Luciano Benetton Foundation Small Works Series at the Venice Biennale and completed time as an artist in residence at the Red Bull House of Art Detroit for their 7th Cycle and Synesthesia Sound and Art exhibition.
Her work been featured on the Martha Stewart Show, PBS Newshour, HGTV, CBS Detroit, Fox 2 Detroit; WDIV Detroit, various design blogs such as WIRED, Boing Boing, io9, thrillist, NotCot, Refinery29, Design Milk, The Consumerist, Uncrate and print publications such as Grazia France, Le Figaro, The New York Times, Time Out New York, Time Out Chicago, Antenna, Hemmings Muscle Machines, Sports and Exotic Car Magazine, Motorcyclist, Brides, Make Magazine, Details, Nylon, Fiberarts, Bust, Adorn, URB, BPM, and more.
More:
Cyberoptix Tie Lab
Well Done Goods
Cyberoptix on Etsy