Shelah Horvitz (b. 1960) was born in Fall River, Massachusetts. She started training as an artist at the age of four under her mother, Frances Bieler Horvitz, who had studied at the Boston Museum School. She received classical training from Narcisco Maisterra at the Mary C. Wheeler School in her teens, and was in her first museum show at 21, at Brown University’s List Gallery, where she exhibited alongside William Holman Hunt and other major Pre-Raphaelites.

Shelah holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She has taken workshops with Stephen Bauman, Daniela Astone, Mia Bergeron, TJ Cunningham, Amaya Gurpide, and Donald Jurney.

Since 1984, Shelah has exhibited in galleries and museums across the United States. Her work has appeared in magazines and scholarly publications in the US and Japan, and on websites throughout Europe.

She currently lives on a homestead in the Maine woods with her husband and dog.

Recent awards and accolades:

  • (2022) Finalist with 5 artworks, 2022 Art Renewal Center (ARC) 16th Salon for Beyond (drawing), 2022, Beyond, 2022, Guided by Voices, 2022, Afterwards, 2021, and In the Wastes, 2021

  • (2021) Rescue included in the Lunar Codex

  • (2021) Finalist, ModPortrait 2021, Artelibra, MEAM Museum, Barcelona, Spain and Caja Rural de Aragón Building-Palace, Zaragosa, Spain

  • (2021) Merit Award, 2021 New England Regional Juried Exhibition, Guild of Boston Artists, Boston, MA. Judges: Harley Bartlett, Robin Frisella and Donald Jurney.

  • (2020) Finalist, Portraiture, 15th International Art Renewal Center Salon Competition, Port Reading, NJ. Judges:
    Dr. Vern Swanson, Kara Ross, Michael John Angel, Xu Mangyao

  • (2020) Finalist, Strokes of Genius, Artist's Network

  • (2019) Finalist, Landscape, 14th International Art Renewal Center Salon Competition, Port Reading, NJ. Judges: Dr. Vern Swanson, Fred Ross, Mandy Theis, Sadie Valeri

  • (2018) Merit Award, National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society (NOAPS) 28th Best of America National Exhibition, Eisele Gallery of Fine Art, Cincinnati, OH. Judge: Adam Clague.