Shelley Thorstensen

Born in Oklahoma, Shelley Thorstensen has an undergraduate degree in experimental studies from Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts, New York, and a graduate degree in printmaking from Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University, Philadelphia. She was a National Endowment for the Arts Research Artist at Kansas State University, Manhattan, in electrolytic chemical etching.

She has exhibited her work internationally at institutions including the Delaware Contemporary Art Center, Wilmington; Painted Bride Art Center and Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia; Galerie RECOLTE, Fukuoka, Japan; Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT; International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, Arizona; Whitebox Gallery at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia; Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India; Society of American Graphic Artists, Prague, Czech Republic; and Brita Prinz Arte SA, Madrid, Spain.

Thorstensen’s work is in the collections of Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Ireland; Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and Feldman & Pinto, Philadelphia; Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Jaffe Center for Book Arts at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton; Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MN; Polymetaal, Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium.

Thorstensen lives in Oxford, PA, and is the director of Printmakers Open Forum LLC, which operates out of her custom-built print studio.
—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records

Artist Info


Born

1953

Fort Sill, OKAY

Gender

Female

Nationality

American

Heritage

European American