Born: Boston, MA. Studio based in Detroit, MI
Founder Cyberoptix & Well Done Goods
Education
BFA, Boston University. 1998
MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, 2001
Solo Exhibitions
2014 “Sonic Crystals.” Exterior installation, Chase Building plaza, Detroit, MI.
2013 “Bethany Shorb – Painting Machines: Klangfiguren (Sound Figures).” Devotion Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2012 “Bethany Shorb – Palimpsest.” 323 East Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
2011 “Bethany Shorb – Supplemental Restraint System,” Devotion Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010 “Crash: The Art of Bethany Shorb,” 323 East Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
1998 “Relics of Memory,” Out of the Blue Gallery. Cambridge, MA.
1997 “Photography of Bethany Shorb,” ManRay Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
1997 “Works of Bethany Shorb,” Stage One Gallery, Boston, MA.
Residencies
2014 Red Bull House of Art, Cycle 7 Residency. Detroit, MI
2012 Summit Series (printmaking), Eden Utah.
Select Group Exhibitions
2014
“Convergence.” Boston University, Boston MA. Upcoming.
“Glass, Cinder and Thorns III.” Inner State Gallery, Detroit, MI. Upcoming.
“Unseen II.” Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI.
Unseen. Gallery Project. Detroit, MI
OPENstudios Cranbrook Art Museum/Academy of Art. Bloomfield Hills, MI
“Synesthesia” — a three-day celebration of multidisciplinary artists in Detroit – Red Bull Music Academy/House of Art in conjunction with Movement Festival. Detroit, MI.
The CAMP (Community Arts Moving Projects). Dystopian Disco: Sonic Crystals. Movement 2014 Festival, Detroit MI.
Cycle 7. Red Bull House of Art. Detroit, MI
“f(Glitch), or The Function of Glitch.” Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University NY
DRONES II, via Gallery Project, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI.
2013
“Doing It, and Doing It, and Doing It Well.” The work of 20 Cranbrook Academy of Art graduates spanning nearly 40 graduating years. Studio Couture. Detroit, MI.
“DRONES,” Gallery Project, Detroit MI
“Imago Mundi.” Venice Italy. Luciano Benetton Collection.
Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Castello 5252 (Santa Maria Formosa) Venice Biennale, Organization: Fondazione Querini Stampalia onlus.
“Sky Burial” installation at “Hold the Fort,” Historic Fort Wayne, Detroit MI.
“New Direction,” Permanent installation/commission. Arrow steel and light bridge at Red Bull House of Art, Detroit, MI.
2012
“Glass, Cinder and Thorns II” 323 East Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
“Process as Content,” Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
“Quantified Self,” Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
“Ford Whisperer,” Detroit Design Festival poster released on 1xRun.
2011
“2011 Actual Size Biennial,” Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit
“Ideas for Detroit on Napkins,” Whitdel Arts, Detroit, MI
“Pop-Up Detroit,” Noel Night Exhibition, Detroit, MI
“Triumph/Ford Disaster III,” Pop-Up Detroit, 71 Garfield, Detroit, MI
“Automobiles: Shaping our Landscape, Designing our Lives”, Public Pool, Hamtramck, MI
2010
“WARP,” Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI (curator)
“Art Meets Technology: 10.10.10,” District VII, 2690 Detroit, MI
“Dark Talk”, a series of design talks in pitch black, Detroit
“What’s So Funny,” Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
“The Shift,” Devotion Gallery + 319 Scholes, Brooklyn, NY
“Mind,” Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
“The Big Read,” Paramount Gallery, Ferndale, MI
“Imaging the Future,” Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
2009
“Pherepaphe: The Fourfold Roots Of Everything,” Devotion Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Spring 2010 Collection,” Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
“Actual Size Biennial,” Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit.
“Crash,” Designer’s Night, Detroit, MI
“Aire: The Second Fourfold Root,” Devotion Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Aire: The Second Fourfold Root,” 319 Scholes, Brooklyn, NY
2008
“Detroit By Design’s 4 Year Anniversary,” Detroit MI
“BUY THIS/WEAR THAT!”, Anton Art Center, Mt. Clemens MI
2006
“Machines That Feel,” Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Detroit MI
[lapse in gallery showing while developing product design career]
2001
Network Gallery group show, Bloomfield Hills, MI.
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Graduate Degree Exhibition. Bloomfield Hills, MI.
2000
Network Gallery, “The Clarity of Seduction III.” Bloomfield Hills, MI.
Gravediggers Exhibit, “Dark-Celtic-Gothic.” Cleveland, OH.
Valkyrie UK. “Works from Clive Barker, David Bowie, Bethany Shorb, Steve Withington.” Sheffield, England.
Cranbrook Academy of Art. “Nutrageous.” Bloomfield Hills, MI.
1999
The Distillery Gallery, “Beauty.” South Boston, MA.
DeCordova Museum, “Make Your Move: Interactive Computer Art.” Lincoln, MA. (fabrication assistant)
1998
Out of the Blue Gallery. “CAOS” (Cambridge Artists Open Studios). Cambridge, MA.
The Distillery Gallery, “Six Artists·In Search of a Theme.” South Boston, MA
Boston University Art Gallery, BFA Degree Show, Juried Undergraduate Show. Boston, MA.
The Copley Society of Boston, Annual Juried Show. Boston, MA.
Out of the Blue Gallery, Cambridge, MA. “Spring Show.”
4827 Gallery, Boston, MA. “Winter Exhibition.”
1997
Positive Space Gallery, “No Dead Artists.” Juried group show. New Orleans, LA.
The Copley Society of Boston, Annual Juried Show. Boston, MA.
Boston University School of Management, Commission for six-by-six foot site-specific permanent installation. Installed October 1997. Boston, MA.
Out of the Blue Gallery, in conjunction with Cambridge Open Studios Group Show. Cambridge, MA.
Out of the Blue Gallery, “The Beheld” Juried group show. Cambridge, MA.
Golden Key National Honor Society, International Art Competition. Juried group show. Atlanta, GA.
ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Boston, MA. “Gothic.”group show. Photography included in exhibition catalog, MIT Press. May 1997.
Boston University Art Gallery, Annual Juried Student Show. Boston, MA.
1996
First Expressions Gallery, Annual juried show. Boston, MA
Sherman Gallery at Boston University, Junior/Senior Exhibition. Boston, MA.
Bennington Center for the Arts, Woman: An Artist’s View. Juried group show. Bennington, VT.
Forgotten Arts, Photography exhibit. Cambridge, MA.
Boston University School for the Arts, Individual juried photography show. Boston, MA.
Fuller Gallery at Boston University, The Art of the Matter. Student/Alumni show. Boston MA.
Curatorial
“Eye on the D” 555 Gallery, Detroit, MI 2013
Curatorial Collaborator at Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI, 2010-2011.
Awards
Detroit Young Professionals, Vanguard Award
The Esther B. and Albert S. Kahn Career Entry Award
Donations/Charitable works
Longboard show. Imperial, Ferndale MI
Artworks for Life, MAPP. Museum of Contemporary art Detroit, Detroit, MI
944 Magazine, “Chucks for Charity,” Detroit MI
Bibliography
Re-Toolkit for Detroit. University of Michigan Press. 2014
Grazia France, Les Hipsters au Secours de Detroit. 2013
Yahoo News, Procrastinaut. “Making With Waves” by Rob Walker 2013
Post-Industrial Complex. Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. 2013
Core 77, 2011.
Make Magazine, 2010, 2011, 2012
New York Times Magazine, Consumed: Viral Inflection. 2009
FiberArts Magazine. 2005.
ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Boston, MA. “Gothic.” MIT Press. May 1997.
Speaking Engagements
The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, ASAP/5 Conference, national conference, panel discussion. Wayne State University. 2013
PBS Newshour. 2012
WDET, Detroit Public Radio. 2010, 2011
“Detroit Lives,” Premier/screening/panel discussion, New York, NY
“Detroit Lives,” Screening/panel discussion, Detroit, MI
American Association of Museums, AAM Conference: Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal, Milwaukee, WI
Founder Cyberoptix & Well Done Goods
Education
BFA, Boston University. 1998
MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, 2001
Solo Exhibitions
2014 “Sonic Crystals.” Exterior installation, Chase Building plaza, Detroit, MI.
2013 “Bethany Shorb – Painting Machines: Klangfiguren (Sound Figures).” Devotion Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2012 “Bethany Shorb – Palimpsest.” 323 East Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
2011 “Bethany Shorb – Supplemental Restraint System,” Devotion Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010 “Crash: The Art of Bethany Shorb,” 323 East Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
1998 “Relics of Memory,” Out of the Blue Gallery. Cambridge, MA.
1997 “Photography of Bethany Shorb,” ManRay Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
1997 “Works of Bethany Shorb,” Stage One Gallery, Boston, MA.
Residencies
2014 Red Bull House of Art, Cycle 7 Residency. Detroit, MI
2012 Summit Series (printmaking), Eden Utah.
Select Group Exhibitions
2014
“Convergence.” Boston University, Boston MA. Upcoming.
“Glass, Cinder and Thorns III.” Inner State Gallery, Detroit, MI. Upcoming.
“Unseen II.” Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI.
Unseen. Gallery Project. Detroit, MI
OPENstudios Cranbrook Art Museum/Academy of Art. Bloomfield Hills, MI
“Synesthesia” — a three-day celebration of multidisciplinary artists in Detroit – Red Bull Music Academy/House of Art in conjunction with Movement Festival. Detroit, MI.
The CAMP (Community Arts Moving Projects). Dystopian Disco: Sonic Crystals. Movement 2014 Festival, Detroit MI.
Cycle 7. Red Bull House of Art. Detroit, MI
“f(Glitch), or The Function of Glitch.” Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University NY
DRONES II, via Gallery Project, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI.
2013
“Doing It, and Doing It, and Doing It Well.” The work of 20 Cranbrook Academy of Art graduates spanning nearly 40 graduating years. Studio Couture. Detroit, MI.
“DRONES,” Gallery Project, Detroit MI
“Imago Mundi.” Venice Italy. Luciano Benetton Collection.
Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Castello 5252 (Santa Maria Formosa) Venice Biennale, Organization: Fondazione Querini Stampalia onlus.
“Sky Burial” installation at “Hold the Fort,” Historic Fort Wayne, Detroit MI.
“New Direction,” Permanent installation/commission. Arrow steel and light bridge at Red Bull House of Art, Detroit, MI.
2012
“Glass, Cinder and Thorns II” 323 East Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
“Process as Content,” Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
“Quantified Self,” Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
“Ford Whisperer,” Detroit Design Festival poster released on 1xRun.
2011
“2011 Actual Size Biennial,” Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit
“Ideas for Detroit on Napkins,” Whitdel Arts, Detroit, MI
“Pop-Up Detroit,” Noel Night Exhibition, Detroit, MI
“Triumph/Ford Disaster III,” Pop-Up Detroit, 71 Garfield, Detroit, MI
“Automobiles: Shaping our Landscape, Designing our Lives”, Public Pool, Hamtramck, MI
2010
“WARP,” Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI (curator)
“Art Meets Technology: 10.10.10,” District VII, 2690 Detroit, MI
“Dark Talk”, a series of design talks in pitch black, Detroit
“What’s So Funny,” Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
“The Shift,” Devotion Gallery + 319 Scholes, Brooklyn, NY
“Mind,” Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
“The Big Read,” Paramount Gallery, Ferndale, MI
“Imaging the Future,” Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
2009
“Pherepaphe: The Fourfold Roots Of Everything,” Devotion Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Spring 2010 Collection,” Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
“Actual Size Biennial,” Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit.
“Crash,” Designer’s Night, Detroit, MI
“Aire: The Second Fourfold Root,” Devotion Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Aire: The Second Fourfold Root,” 319 Scholes, Brooklyn, NY
2008
“Detroit By Design’s 4 Year Anniversary,” Detroit MI
“BUY THIS/WEAR THAT!”, Anton Art Center, Mt. Clemens MI
2006
“Machines That Feel,” Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Detroit MI
[lapse in gallery showing while developing product design career]
2001
Network Gallery group show, Bloomfield Hills, MI.
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Graduate Degree Exhibition. Bloomfield Hills, MI.
2000
Network Gallery, “The Clarity of Seduction III.” Bloomfield Hills, MI.
Gravediggers Exhibit, “Dark-Celtic-Gothic.” Cleveland, OH.
Valkyrie UK. “Works from Clive Barker, David Bowie, Bethany Shorb, Steve Withington.” Sheffield, England.
Cranbrook Academy of Art. “Nutrageous.” Bloomfield Hills, MI.
1999
The Distillery Gallery, “Beauty.” South Boston, MA.
DeCordova Museum, “Make Your Move: Interactive Computer Art.” Lincoln, MA. (fabrication assistant)
1998
Out of the Blue Gallery. “CAOS” (Cambridge Artists Open Studios). Cambridge, MA.
The Distillery Gallery, “Six Artists·In Search of a Theme.” South Boston, MA
Boston University Art Gallery, BFA Degree Show, Juried Undergraduate Show. Boston, MA.
The Copley Society of Boston, Annual Juried Show. Boston, MA.
Out of the Blue Gallery, Cambridge, MA. “Spring Show.”
4827 Gallery, Boston, MA. “Winter Exhibition.”
1997
Positive Space Gallery, “No Dead Artists.” Juried group show. New Orleans, LA.
The Copley Society of Boston, Annual Juried Show. Boston, MA.
Boston University School of Management, Commission for six-by-six foot site-specific permanent installation. Installed October 1997. Boston, MA.
Out of the Blue Gallery, in conjunction with Cambridge Open Studios Group Show. Cambridge, MA.
Out of the Blue Gallery, “The Beheld” Juried group show. Cambridge, MA.
Golden Key National Honor Society, International Art Competition. Juried group show. Atlanta, GA.
ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Boston, MA. “Gothic.”group show. Photography included in exhibition catalog, MIT Press. May 1997.
Boston University Art Gallery, Annual Juried Student Show. Boston, MA.
1996
First Expressions Gallery, Annual juried show. Boston, MA
Sherman Gallery at Boston University, Junior/Senior Exhibition. Boston, MA.
Bennington Center for the Arts, Woman: An Artist’s View. Juried group show. Bennington, VT.
Forgotten Arts, Photography exhibit. Cambridge, MA.
Boston University School for the Arts, Individual juried photography show. Boston, MA.
Fuller Gallery at Boston University, The Art of the Matter. Student/Alumni show. Boston MA.
Curatorial
“Eye on the D” 555 Gallery, Detroit, MI 2013
Curatorial Collaborator at Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI, 2010-2011.
Awards
Detroit Young Professionals, Vanguard Award
The Esther B. and Albert S. Kahn Career Entry Award
Donations/Charitable works
Longboard show. Imperial, Ferndale MI
Artworks for Life, MAPP. Museum of Contemporary art Detroit, Detroit, MI
944 Magazine, “Chucks for Charity,” Detroit MI
Bibliography
Re-Toolkit for Detroit. University of Michigan Press. 2014
Grazia France, Les Hipsters au Secours de Detroit. 2013
Yahoo News, Procrastinaut. “Making With Waves” by Rob Walker 2013
Post-Industrial Complex. Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. 2013
Core 77, 2011.
Make Magazine, 2010, 2011, 2012
New York Times Magazine, Consumed: Viral Inflection. 2009
FiberArts Magazine. 2005.
ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Boston, MA. “Gothic.” MIT Press. May 1997.
Speaking Engagements
The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, ASAP/5 Conference, national conference, panel discussion. Wayne State University. 2013
PBS Newshour. 2012
WDET, Detroit Public Radio. 2010, 2011
“Detroit Lives,” Premier/screening/panel discussion, New York, NY
“Detroit Lives,” Screening/panel discussion, Detroit, MI
American Association of Museums, AAM Conference: Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal, Milwaukee, WI