Biography
A first-generation American, Shapira is a rising artist exhibited in international museums and private collections. He lived and drew with Aboriginal Australians over three years, lectured at Harvard, Royal College of Art, University of Sydney, received the Daler-Rowney Drawing Prize, Blanche E. Colman Painting Award, and gave a TED Talk on ‘Contemporary Cubism’. Shapira challenges contemporaries to celebrate today’s cubist problem-simultaneously see multiple angles, be inside and outside, in history and present.
Shapira-father rooted 10-generations in Jerusalem, mother refugee of Iraq-makes paint and ink mulling oil, Israeli earth, and olive branch ash. In 2012, he exhibited 10-ft paintings and etchings on survival and preservation in New York, London, Boston, Miami, Portland, Seattle.
First in his family to attend university, Shapira is a PhD in Visual Arts, Master Printer-Royal College of Art, MFA in Painting-Boston University, and was resident artist at Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem.
