Lauren Shaw received her MFA in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design. She co-founded New England Women in Photography. She is the recipient of two National Endowment Regional Grants, and several Faculty Advancement Fund Grants. Her work has been exhibited widely throughout the United States and in the collection of the Getty Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Fogg Museum, High Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, the Library of Congress, Farnsworth Museum,Museo de Lima, the Newark Museum. She continues to exhibit her latest photographic work: Traces , and was selected for Southeast Center for Photography: , 2019, Greenville, SC, LA Artcore, Photographic Exhibition and Competition, 2019, Honorable Mention, and Exposure, 2018, Juried Exhibition, Photographic Resource Center, Boston.S he is a tenured professor at Emerson College where she has taught for 51 years. She is also a documentary filmmaker: Routine Interrupted, 2022, About John 2021, If They Had Known, 2016, Angkor's Children, 2015, A Drop in the Bucket, 2009. They have screened at film festivals around the world, Institutions, Museums, and PBS.My photographs are reflect
