BIOGRAPHY
1988 M A Art History, University of Oregon
1978 M A Art Education, Boise State University
1973 B F A Art / Drawing & Painting, Boise State College
AWARDS/GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS
2007 Nominee: Contemporary Northwest Art Award, Portland Art Museum
2004 Selected to represent the U.S. on a five-member international search committee,
University of Cyprus, Nicosia
2001 Boise Visual Chronicle Commission Finalist Boise City Arts Commission
1999 Boise Visual Chronicle Commission Finalist Boise City Arts Commission
1998 Award for Distinguished Creative Activity Boise State University
College of Arts & Sciences
1998 University Foundation Scholar Award In Teaching Boise State University
1997 Individual Visual Artist Fellowship Idaho Commission on the Arts
1996 Juror’s Award: XIX LaGrange National Biennial Exhibition La Grange, Georgia
1996 Sudden Opportunity Grant Idaho Commission on the Arts
1990 Research Associates Grant for Creative Research Boise State University
1990 Sudden Opportunity Grant Idaho Commission on the Arts
1990 Technical Assistance Grant Idaho Commission on the Arts
1986 Juror’s Award: West Coast Works On / Of Paper Humboldt State University
1985 Juror’s Award: Fourth Idaho Biennial Juried Exhibition Boise Gallery of Art
1981 Juror’s Award: Boise Art Exhibition
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1998 Cheryl Shurtleff Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
1994 Black Magic College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, Idaho
1992 Magic Power Ochi Art Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
1992 Magic Power Ochi Art Gallery, Boise, Idaho
1989 Visiting Artist Solo Exhibition Treasure Valley Community College Art Gallery
1 9 8 5 Works on Paper Idaho State University
GRPUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Birds of a Feather, Boise Art Museum
2010 Unabashed, Unclad, Unframed: Erin Rachel Hudak, Molly Larkey, Claudia
Parducci, Katy Schimert, Cheryl Shurtleff, Nellie King Solomon, Pat Steir, Ochi
Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
2009 Homage to the Artists, Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
2009 Out of Bounds: Art from the Collection of Driek and Michael Zirinsky, Whatcom
Museum, The Lightcatcher building, Bellingham, Washington
2009 Boise State University Art Department Faculty Exhibition
2008 The Deal, Visual Arts Collective, Boise Idaho
2007 INTERMEDIA Multiples, Southern Graphics Council, Kansas City Art Institute
2005 Boise State University Art Department Faculty, Pritchard Gallery, Moscow, Idaho
2004 Natural Forces: Earth, Air, Fire and Water, Boise Art Museum
2003 Art Jars, Boise State University
2002 An Academic Celebration of Artists, Idaho State University, Pocatello
2002 Sustained Chord, Herrett Center for Arts and Sciences, Twin Falls, Idaho
2001 Permanent Collection Exhibition
Boise Art Museum
2000 Francis Fox, Cheryl Shurtleff, Richard Young,
Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, Oregon
2000 Mysteries, Memories, Nature Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho
2000 observation/revelation: plants and insects through the lens of art
Pritchard Gallery, Moscow, Idaho
2000 observation/revelation: plants and insects through the lens of art
Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, Idaho
2000 Faculty Exhibition, Boise State University
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1999 (Un)Tamed Visions in (Un)Natural Habitats Women’s History Month Installation,
Boise, Idaho
1998 do it (Invitational Installation) Boise State University Visual Art Center
1997 Two Studios / One Bed Cheney Cowles Museum Spokane, Washington
1996 Essence .Flux .Refinement Herrett Museum, Twin Falls, Idaho
1995 Women Across the Arts: Alaska, British Columbia, Idaho, Oregon, Washington
Friesen Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1995 Northwest International Women’s Conference Visual Arts Exhibition
Seattle, Washington
1993 Seattle Art Fair Seattle, Washington
1992 Spirit of the West / Best of the West 1992 Exhibition West One Bank Corporation
1991 Art LA 91: The LA Art Fair Los Angeles, California
1991 Spirit of the West / Best of the West West One Bank Corporation
1990 National Invitational Drawing Exhibition Exhibits USA, Mid-America Arts Alliance
1989 National Invitational Drawing Exhibition Exhibits USA, Mid-America Arts Alliance
1989 Fourteenth Annual National Invitational Drawing Exhibition Emporia State
University
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1989 Centennial Edition II: Airhart / Scott / Sher / Shurtleff
Herrett Art Gallery, Twin Falls, Idaho
1988 Selections From the Permanent Collection Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
1988 Paper Dolls and Snakes (James K. Russell and Cheryl K. Shurtleff)
Boise State University, Boise, Idaho
1983 Ten Artists: First Annual Group Exhibition Art Attack Gallery, Boise, Idaho
1984 Eighteen Special Works: Second Annual Group Exhibition
Art Attack Gallery, Boise, Idaho
1984 Ochi Preview Ochi Art Gallery, Boise, Idaho
1984 Interiors: A Northwest Women’s Invitational
Sun Valley Center for the Arts & Humanities
1983 Sawtooths and Other Ranges of Imagination: Contemporary Art from Idaho
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1981 Nelson / Powell / Shurtleff Art Attack Gallery, Boise, Idaho
j u r i e d e x h i b i t i o n s [ s e l e c t e d ] *
1997 Pulp Fictions: Works on Paper J. Wayne Stark University Center Galleries
Texas A & M University
1996 - 98 Pulp Fictions: Works on Paper Texas Fine Arts Association Art on Tour Program
1996 Pulp Fictions: Works on Paper Austin Museum of Art, Laguna Gloria, Texas
1996 6th Annual National Juried Exhibition 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
1996 XIX LaGrange National Biennial Exhibition (JUROR'S AWARD)
1994 Southwest Texas State University Annual Works on Paper Exhibition
1994 XVIII LaGrange National Biennial Exhibition
1993 24th Bradley National Print and Drawing Exhibition
1993 Cimarron National Works on Paper
1992 Northwest Juried Art 92 Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, Washington
1992 Seventh Idaho Biennial Exhibition Boise Art Museum
1991 Art LA 91: The LA Art Fair Los Angeles, California
1991 Cimarron National Works on Paper
1990 Centennial Biennial: Contemporary Art in Idaho Boise Art Museum
1989 Fifth Idaho Biennial Juried Exhibition Boise Gallery of Art
1988 MIA / PGS National Juried Exhibition Montana Institute of the Arts, Missoula,
Montana
1987 Southwest Texas State National Juried Exhibition
1987 Fourth Idaho Biennial Juried Exhibition Boise Gallery of Art (JUROR'S AWARD)
1986 Northwest Juried Art 86 Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane,
Washington
1986 West Coast Works On / Of Paper (JUROR'S AWARD)
1985 Northern Rockies Exhibition, 1985 Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana
1985 Northwest Juried Art 85 Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane,
Washington
1982 Big Sky Biennial II: Small Drawings and Sculpture Idaho State University
1981 Eastern Oregon Regional Juried Competition Eastern Oregon College
1981 Boise Art Exhibition (JUROR'S AWARD)
* Exhibitions juried by nationally recognized artists and critics including Lucy
Lippard, Dennis Barrie, Ed Paschke, Dave Hickey, Warrington Colescott, and the
late Jay De Feo
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
Herrett Center for Arts and Science
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
University of Mississippi Prints Collective Archive
1988 M A Art History, University of Oregon
1978 M A Art Education, Boise State University
1973 B F A Art / Drawing & Painting, Boise State College
AWARDS/GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS
2007 Nominee: Contemporary Northwest Art Award, Portland Art Museum
2004 Selected to represent the U.S. on a five-member international search committee,
University of Cyprus, Nicosia
2001 Boise Visual Chronicle Commission Finalist Boise City Arts Commission
1999 Boise Visual Chronicle Commission Finalist Boise City Arts Commission
1998 Award for Distinguished Creative Activity Boise State University
College of Arts & Sciences
1998 University Foundation Scholar Award In Teaching Boise State University
1997 Individual Visual Artist Fellowship Idaho Commission on the Arts
1996 Juror’s Award: XIX LaGrange National Biennial Exhibition La Grange, Georgia
1996 Sudden Opportunity Grant Idaho Commission on the Arts
1990 Research Associates Grant for Creative Research Boise State University
1990 Sudden Opportunity Grant Idaho Commission on the Arts
1990 Technical Assistance Grant Idaho Commission on the Arts
1986 Juror’s Award: West Coast Works On / Of Paper Humboldt State University
1985 Juror’s Award: Fourth Idaho Biennial Juried Exhibition Boise Gallery of Art
1981 Juror’s Award: Boise Art Exhibition
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1998 Cheryl Shurtleff Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
1994 Black Magic College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, Idaho
1992 Magic Power Ochi Art Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
1992 Magic Power Ochi Art Gallery, Boise, Idaho
1989 Visiting Artist Solo Exhibition Treasure Valley Community College Art Gallery
1 9 8 5 Works on Paper Idaho State University
GRPUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Birds of a Feather, Boise Art Museum
2010 Unabashed, Unclad, Unframed: Erin Rachel Hudak, Molly Larkey, Claudia
Parducci, Katy Schimert, Cheryl Shurtleff, Nellie King Solomon, Pat Steir, Ochi
Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
2009 Homage to the Artists, Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
2009 Out of Bounds: Art from the Collection of Driek and Michael Zirinsky, Whatcom
Museum, The Lightcatcher building, Bellingham, Washington
2009 Boise State University Art Department Faculty Exhibition
2008 The Deal, Visual Arts Collective, Boise Idaho
2007 INTERMEDIA Multiples, Southern Graphics Council, Kansas City Art Institute
2005 Boise State University Art Department Faculty, Pritchard Gallery, Moscow, Idaho
2004 Natural Forces: Earth, Air, Fire and Water, Boise Art Museum
2003 Art Jars, Boise State University
2002 An Academic Celebration of Artists, Idaho State University, Pocatello
2002 Sustained Chord, Herrett Center for Arts and Sciences, Twin Falls, Idaho
2001 Permanent Collection Exhibition
Boise Art Museum
2000 Francis Fox, Cheryl Shurtleff, Richard Young,
Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, Oregon
2000 Mysteries, Memories, Nature Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho
2000 observation/revelation: plants and insects through the lens of art
Pritchard Gallery, Moscow, Idaho
2000 observation/revelation: plants and insects through the lens of art
Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, Idaho
2000 Faculty Exhibition, Boise State University
iii
1999 (Un)Tamed Visions in (Un)Natural Habitats Women’s History Month Installation,
Boise, Idaho
1998 do it (Invitational Installation) Boise State University Visual Art Center
1997 Two Studios / One Bed Cheney Cowles Museum Spokane, Washington
1996 Essence .Flux .Refinement Herrett Museum, Twin Falls, Idaho
1995 Women Across the Arts: Alaska, British Columbia, Idaho, Oregon, Washington
Friesen Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1995 Northwest International Women’s Conference Visual Arts Exhibition
Seattle, Washington
1993 Seattle Art Fair Seattle, Washington
1992 Spirit of the West / Best of the West 1992 Exhibition West One Bank Corporation
1991 Art LA 91: The LA Art Fair Los Angeles, California
1991 Spirit of the West / Best of the West West One Bank Corporation
1990 National Invitational Drawing Exhibition Exhibits USA, Mid-America Arts Alliance
1989 National Invitational Drawing Exhibition Exhibits USA, Mid-America Arts Alliance
1989 Fourteenth Annual National Invitational Drawing Exhibition Emporia State
University
iv
1989 Centennial Edition II: Airhart / Scott / Sher / Shurtleff
Herrett Art Gallery, Twin Falls, Idaho
1988 Selections From the Permanent Collection Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
1988 Paper Dolls and Snakes (James K. Russell and Cheryl K. Shurtleff)
Boise State University, Boise, Idaho
1983 Ten Artists: First Annual Group Exhibition Art Attack Gallery, Boise, Idaho
1984 Eighteen Special Works: Second Annual Group Exhibition
Art Attack Gallery, Boise, Idaho
1984 Ochi Preview Ochi Art Gallery, Boise, Idaho
1984 Interiors: A Northwest Women’s Invitational
Sun Valley Center for the Arts & Humanities
1983 Sawtooths and Other Ranges of Imagination: Contemporary Art from Idaho
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1981 Nelson / Powell / Shurtleff Art Attack Gallery, Boise, Idaho
j u r i e d e x h i b i t i o n s [ s e l e c t e d ] *
1997 Pulp Fictions: Works on Paper J. Wayne Stark University Center Galleries
Texas A & M University
1996 - 98 Pulp Fictions: Works on Paper Texas Fine Arts Association Art on Tour Program
1996 Pulp Fictions: Works on Paper Austin Museum of Art, Laguna Gloria, Texas
1996 6th Annual National Juried Exhibition 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
1996 XIX LaGrange National Biennial Exhibition (JUROR'S AWARD)
1994 Southwest Texas State University Annual Works on Paper Exhibition
1994 XVIII LaGrange National Biennial Exhibition
1993 24th Bradley National Print and Drawing Exhibition
1993 Cimarron National Works on Paper
1992 Northwest Juried Art 92 Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, Washington
1992 Seventh Idaho Biennial Exhibition Boise Art Museum
1991 Art LA 91: The LA Art Fair Los Angeles, California
1991 Cimarron National Works on Paper
1990 Centennial Biennial: Contemporary Art in Idaho Boise Art Museum
1989 Fifth Idaho Biennial Juried Exhibition Boise Gallery of Art
1988 MIA / PGS National Juried Exhibition Montana Institute of the Arts, Missoula,
Montana
1987 Southwest Texas State National Juried Exhibition
1987 Fourth Idaho Biennial Juried Exhibition Boise Gallery of Art (JUROR'S AWARD)
1986 Northwest Juried Art 86 Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane,
Washington
1986 West Coast Works On / Of Paper (JUROR'S AWARD)
1985 Northern Rockies Exhibition, 1985 Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana
1985 Northwest Juried Art 85 Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane,
Washington
1982 Big Sky Biennial II: Small Drawings and Sculpture Idaho State University
1981 Eastern Oregon Regional Juried Competition Eastern Oregon College
1981 Boise Art Exhibition (JUROR'S AWARD)
* Exhibitions juried by nationally recognized artists and critics including Lucy
Lippard, Dennis Barrie, Ed Paschke, Dave Hickey, Warrington Colescott, and the
late Jay De Feo
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
Herrett Center for Arts and Science
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
University of Mississippi Prints Collective Archive