Rena Cohen Shear

 2021 - 2023  

          ReachArts, Swampscott, MA, Members Exhibition, First Prize, Abstract Painting

          Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Concord, MA, Members Juried I for Painting and Sculpture,

          painting

          ArtWorks Gallery, Ware, MA, RED, paintings

          The W Gallery/Arts Wayland, Wayland, MA, January Members' Show, Magical, Members Group              Show, February Members' Show, The Splendors of Spring @ Goodnow Library, paintings

          Grace Chapel Art Gallery, Lexington, MA, Holidays, Community, Radiance, Inside Out, Renewal,            Slice of Life, paintings

          Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Concord, MA, Members Juried 2, Concord, MA, painting

          Galerie D'Orsay, Boston, MA, "Jump In!":  Celebrating the Thread Between Student + Mentor,

          paintings, (a tribute to Elizabeth DaCosta Ahern and Helen Frankenthaler)

2016 --2020  

2016 - 2020  Aloft Hotel, Lexington, MA, Solo Show, paintings

            Arts Wayland, Wayland, MA, Small Works, paintings

          Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA, Winter Works, paintings

          Cary Memorial Library, Lexington, MA, Open Studios, paintings

          Fort Point Arts Community Gallery, Boston, MA, Small Group Show, Different Strokes, paintings

          Maud Morgan Community Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, painting

          Gallery Twist, Lexington, MA, Illuminations, paintings

          Grace Chapel Art Gallery, Lexington, MA, The Blues, Unthemed, Poetry in Motion, Splash!,                     Going Green, Flower Power, Pattern, Circle of Life, Untitled, Collections, Exuberance, Shiny,                   A Sense of Place, Migration, paintings, Lexington, MA

          Lexington Open Studios, Lexington, MA

          Open Spirit Center, Framingham, MA, Solo Show, Looking for Balance, paintings

          The Gallery @ Villageworks, Acton, MA, Driven to Abstraction, paintings

          The W Gallery, Wayland, MA, For the Love of Earth, juror, paintings

2010 - 2015  Aloft Hotel, Lexington, MA, Solo Show, paintings

          Brick Wall Kitchen, Brookline, MA, Solo Show, paintings

          Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA, 12 x 12 Holiday Show, paintings

          Cambridge Art Association, Fall Salon, painting, The Art Harvest, paintings

          Cary Memorial Library, Lexington, MA, Small Group Show, Matters of Color, paintings

                  Small Group Show, Gratitude, paintings, Lexington Open Studios (2012, 2014), paintings

          Concord Art Association, Concord, MA, Holiday Exhibition and Sale, Members Juried I:  Paintings                and Sculpture, painting, Members Juried II, Photography, Drawing, Crafts, and Graphics, 

               photograph    

          DeCordova Museum School, Lincoln, MA, Fall Salon:  Art and Nature, Feminine Inspirations,                         Sculptural, Spring Salon, paintings

          Gallery Seven, Maynard, MA, Into the Night, painting, Buddy Dog Humane Society Silent                              Auction, painting

          Grace Chapel, Lexington, MA, A Still Life, Orange, Splashes of Color, New Work, Seeing the                            Light, Green, Celestial or Man Made, H2O, Tranquility, Journeys, Winter's Tale, Openings,                     Noah's Ark, Wear & Tear, Untitled(2x), Inspired, eats/shoots/&leaves, paintings and      

                   photographs

          Hopkinton Center for the Arts, Hopkinton, MA, Arts in Bloom, (2012, 2015), Fresh Visions:      

                   Painting Now, paintings

              

          Lexington Open Studios, Lexington, MA, 2012, 2014, painting, photographs, cards

          Light, Space, Time Online Art Gallery, Abstracts, Nature, Landscapes, paintings, photograph

          nourish Restaurant, Lexington, MA, E*mer*gence, painting

          Scandinavian Living Center, Newton, MA, Small Group Show, Iceland Calling:  An Artists' Guide

               for Visitors, paintings

          The Umbrella Community Arts Center, Concord, MA, Driven to Abstraction, painting

          Wellesley Congregational Church, Wellesley, MA, Small Group Show, Exposure, paintings

          Weston Public Library, Weston, MA, Small Group Show, Painted Thoughts:  Abstract Work/9                        Artists, paintings                                                                                 
2006 - 2010  Brewed Awakening, Lexington, MA, Colorscapes, paintings
        Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA, BLUE* Fall Salons, RED, Stratum, paintings
        deCordova School, Lincoln, MA, Safe Harbor, Whimsy, What Were You
        Thinking?*Movement, Finding Form, In Process, Finding Balance, In Process, Salon Show,
             America, Public Spaces, Salon Show, paintings
        Emerson Hospital, Concord, MA, Small Group Show, Driven to Abstraction; paintings
        Grace Chapel, Lexington, MA, Renewal, Abstract Context, paintings
        nourish Restaurant, Lexington, MA, Celebrating Life:  The Food We Eat, Food and Farming, paintings

2000-2005   Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA, Fall Salon, New Members Show, paintings
        deCordova School, Lincoln, MA, Abstraction, Painting and  Ceramics, Abstraction, Painting, paintings   
1995-1999  Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA , Essence of Earth:  Landscape and Nature, paintings
        Framingham Public Library, Framingham, MA, Solo Show, Honor the Earth:  Paintings, Prints, and Collage
       The Center for Arts in Natick . Natick, MA, In Celebration of Trees, monoprint
       Wayland Public Library, Wayland, MA, Recent Work of Students of  Emily Myerow, monoprints
       
       Ongoing Solo Exhibit at the office of Dr.Stephen Stern, Millis, MA

Publications

Iceland Naturally, ongoing from December 2012, Paintings Inspired by Iceland ,
(see top of page)

Light Space and Time Online Art Gallery, May 2012 Catalog, Landscapes,
  Special Recognition, photograph, March 2012 Catalog, Nature, Special
  Recognition, photograph
 

'Staring Down the Brilliant Dream”, contributing photographer, Indigo Girls CD, 2010

“Inner Sanctum”, photograph published in Precious Memories Anthology  (ISBN 1-892731-15-0)