Shirley Kaneda is an artist living and working in New York City. Shirley was born to Korean born parents in Tokyo and moved to New York City to attend Parsons where she received her BFA in 1976.

Shirley has had over 25 solo shows at venues such as Jack Shainman, Feigen Contemporary, Galerie Shuster, Mark Moore, Danese Gallery, Galerie Richard and more.

She has been in group exhibitions too numerous to mention in venues such as White Columns, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Chelsea Art Museum, Acme, Rhona Hoffman and many, many more. Her paintings have been covered in Art in America, the New Yorker, Art on Paper, the New York Times, Time Out, Art News amongst many others.

On top of her long legacy of making and showing her art, Shirley is also a highly regarded art professor who has taught at Claremont, Parsons and most recently at Pratt where she taught from 2003 until just this year when she retired.

She also has pusblished interviews in Bomb magazine with artists Fiona Rae, Fabian Marcaccio, Johnathan Lasker and others.

Brian stopped by Shirley’s amazing SoHo loft studio and they spoke of her days growing up in Tokyo, moving to the US, being in SoHo in the early unpolished days, music choices in the studio, playing guitar and much more.