David Shevlino was born in Jersey City, NJ in 1962. A graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania, he also studied at the Art Students' League in New York. Growing up near NYC, Shevlino was exposed to art as a teenager. He began making trips to art museums at age 15 and developed a love of traditional figurative painting. His early work was very traditional and classically inspired. However, after many years of experimenting, Shevlino began exploring a looser paint application which straddles the line between representational painting and abstraction. This "in between" area is where the painter feels most comfortable and best able to express his artistic voice.

Solo Exhibitions:

2015 Gallery 1261, Denver, CO.

2014 Thomas Deans Fine Art, Atlanta, GA.

2011 Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.

2008 George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

DFN Gallery, New York, NY.

2007 Hidell/Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC.

2006 DFN Gallery, New York, NY.

2005 Morpeth Gallery, Hopewell, NJ.

Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.

2003 Morpeth Gallery, Hopewell, NJ.

Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.

2002 Arcadia Gallery, New York, NY.

2001 Morpeth Gallery, Hopewell,NJ.

Steinway Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC

2000 Morpeth Gallery, Hopewell, NJ.

Whitney Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA.

1999 F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.

Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD.

1998 F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1997 Chase Gallery, Boston, MA.

Mulligan-Shanoski Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

Widener University Art Museum, Chester, PA.

Group Exhibitions:

2018 Metamorphosis, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame CA

2014 X-2, Gallery 1261, Denver, CO

In Good Company, Quidley & Co., Boston, MA

Twelve x Twelve, PAFA Alumni Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2013 Upon Reflection, Quidley & Co., Boston, MA

2013 Still, Life and Land, Maxwell Alexander Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2012 The Aesthetic Moment: The Art of Still Life, Delaware Art Museum, DE

2011 Summer Group Exhibit, Gallery 1261, Denver, CO.

2010 Squares, Gallery 1261, Denver, CO.

Looks Good on Paper, DFN Gallery, NY.

2007 Wet, DFN Gallery, New York, NY.

New York at Night, DFN Gallery, New York, NY.

2005 Tenth Anniversary Show, DFN Gallery, New York, NY.

Introductions ll, Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC.

The Academy at Penn, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

2004 NYC, DFN Gallery, New York, NY.

Philadelphia, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.

Philadelphia on the Rocks, Blum Gallery, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME.

Down the Shore, Cacciola Gallery, Bernardsville, NJ.

2003 Juried Alumni Show, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2001 USArtists 01, 33rd Street Armory, Philadelphia, PA.

Re-Presenting Representation, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY.

ictorial Horizons, Baisden Gallery, Tampa, FL.

Annual Summer Exhibit, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.

2000 At The Shore, Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.

1999 Boston International Fine Art Show, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA.

USArtists 99, 33rd Street Armory, Philadelphia, PA

“Our Good Earth,” Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC.

1998 Hubert Gallery, New York, NY.

“Painterly Bravura,” Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD.

“Summertime,” Tatistcheff & Co., New York, NY.

1997 “The Unbroken Line, 1897-1997, A Centennial Exhibition,” Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA.

1996 Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 99th Annual Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA.

Awards:

1999 Delaware Division of the Arts, Individual Fellowship, Wilmington, DE.

1996 Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Award

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, NEA Regional Fellowship, Baltimore, MD.

1994 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship, Trenton, NJ.

1993 Woodmere Endowment Fund Memorial Prize, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA.

992 Woodmere Endowment Fund Memorial Prize, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA.

1987 Golden Anniversary National Art Competition, American Artist Magazine, New York, NY.

1984 Lewis S. Ware Traveling Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA.

Education:

1986-92 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA., BFA

1983-85 Art Students’ League, New York, NY.

1980-84 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA., Certificate

Teaching Experience:

Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Studio Incamminati, Philadelphia

Scottsdale Artist’s School, Scottsdale, AZ

Sedona Art Center, Sedona, AZ

The Art School in Sandy Springs, Atlanta, GA

Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art, Los Angeles, CA

Tucson Academy of Fine Art, Tucson, AZ

Collections:

Klingenstein, Fields & Co., New York, NY

Brian Williams, NBC News Anchor

Bobcat Arena, Charlotte, NC.

Fox Paine & Co., Foster City, CA.

Lankenau Hospital, Philadelphia, PA.

Wellington Management Co., Boston, MA.

Antenna Group, Inc., San Francisco, CA.

Prudential Bache Securities, Philadelphia, PA.

MBNA, Newark, DE.

Rogich Communications, Las Vegas, NV.

Bibliography:

Victoria Donohoe, “Two at Rosenfeld,” Philadelphia Inquirer, May 2011

Meredith Lewis, “Painterly Economy,” The Artist’s Magazine, May 2011

Lindsay Warner, "The Landscape: Real and Observed," Philadelphia Bulletin,

August 2008

Joshua Rose, “The geometry of Light,” American Art Collector Magazine, March 2008

Joshua Rose, "Never Sleeping City", American Art Collector Magazine, February 2007

Edward Sozanski, “The City High and Low,” Philadelphia Inquirer, July 2004

Robin Rice, “Get Real,” Philadelphia City Paper, May 2002 (review)

Georgina Keenan, “Wide Open Spaces,” American Artist Magazine, December 1999

Open Studios Press, New American Paintings, April 1998

Ellin Anderson, “David Shevlino,” Art New England, February 1998 (review)

Judith West, “David Shevlino,” Seven Arts Magazine, March 1997