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Deer

Oil on wood panel • 48" x 48"
2018
SOLD • See PURCHASE page for print.

Doctor Walking

Oil on board
32" x 22" x 1"
2009
SOLD

For Yolanda

Paint, photo, wood, found object
2025

The Foxy One

Oil on wood panel
36" x 40"
2018
SOLD

Beach Prudence Island #1

Ink on paper • 24" x 19"
2021
See PURCHASE page for print sizes.

Antonio

Oil on board
24" x 24" x 1"
2013

Moon Star

Cardboard, found objects
2025

Flying Ant

Medium
24" x 19"
2021
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Bluebird #1

Mixed media
12" x 12" x .5"
2020
$300

Seal Rock Prudence Island

Oil on board • 32" x 24"
2022
$800

Rabbit

Ink on paper
24" x 19"
2021
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Red Star

Tin foil, oil paint, stone, wood
2025

Beach Prudence Island #2

Oil on wood panel • 48" x 48" x 2"
2018
SOLD

Fiddlers

Pencil on paper
36" x 48"
2006
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Blue Jay #1

Mixed media
14" x 10" x 2"
2023
SOLD

Fluke

Ink on paper
24" x 19"
2024
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Fur Coat

Oil and pencil on wood panel
21" x 22" x 2"
2012
SOLD

Time Box

Found objects and paint, tape
2025

Party

Ink on paper
24" x 19"
2021
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Two Guys

Ink on paper
24" x 19"
2021
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Deer Run Prudence Island

Oil on masonite
60" x 36" • 2022
$1800

Ray

Medium
Scale
Year
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Bees

Oil on wood panel • 48" x 48"
2003
SOLD • See PURCHASE page for print.

Ghost Trees

Medium
24" x 19"
2021
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Brother and Sister

Oil on board
25" x 32" x1"
2000
SOLD

Beach Prudence Island #3

Ink on paper
24" x 19"
2021
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Whale

Wood, found objects, paint, string
2024

India Point

Oil on board
12" x 12" x 1"
2008
SOLD

Beach Prudence Island #4

Ink on paper
24" x 19"
2021
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Blue Crabs

Ink on paper
24" x 19"
2021
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Christmas

Oil on board
24" x 24" x1"
2016
NFS

Fish #2

Ink on paper
24" x 19"
2021

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Spiny Fish

Ink on paper
24" x 19"
2021
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Deer Girls

Oil on board
26" x 32" x 1"
2006
SOLD

3 paintings

Oil on board
2025
Some of my recent paintings on exhibit
at Paper Nautilus Bookstore.
November 2025 – January 2026
19 South Angell St., Providence, RI

Side of Lobster

Ink on paper
24" x 19"
2021
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I Look for You Every Day

Oil on board • 36" x 42" x 1"
2015
SOLD • See PURCHASE page for print.

Fati’s Dream

Oil on board
48" x 96" x 2"
2012
NFS

Blue Lobster

Blue pencil on paper
24" x 19"
2021
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Jesse

Oil on board
24" x 24" x 1"
2016
SOLD

Perdido Street

Oil on board
96" x 192" x 2"
2011
SOLD

Blue Tuna

Blue ink on paper
24" x 19"
2021
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Lassie Come Home

Oil on canvas on board
36" x 168" x 1"
2010
$3600

Blue Angel

Blue ink on paper
24" x 19"
2021
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Moonstone Beach

Oil on board
24" x 24" x 1"
2016
SOLD

Canada Goose #1

Ink on paper
24" x 19"
2021
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Canada Goose Draft #2

Ink on paper • 24" x 19"
2021
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Canada Goose Draft #3

Ink on paper • 24" x 19"
2021
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Prudence Island October

Medium • 60" x 36"
2022
$1800

Ralph’s View

Oil on board • 36" x 40" x 2"
2011
SOLD

Brenadette Come Back

Oil on canvas on board
48" x 96" x 2" • 2015
SOLD

The Fado Singer

Oil on board
24" x 48" x 1"
1998
SOLD

Prudence Island #2

Oil on board
12" x 12"
2022
$120

Prudence Island #3

Oil on board
12" x 12"
2022
$120

Lichen with Baby Shoe

Mixed media • 12" x 5"
2023
$120

Sister and Sister

Oil on board
24" x 24" x 1"
2016
SOLD

Swedish Fish

Oil on board
20" x 14" x 1"
2009
SOLD

Antonio Variações #1

Ink on paper • 24" x 19"
2013
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City Rat

Mixed media and oil on board
8" x 8"
2023
SOLD

Did the Band Get Back Together

Oil on board • 28" x 28" x 1"
2012
SOLD • See PURCHASE page for print.

Antonio Variações #2

Ink on paper • 24" x 19"
2013
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Antonio Variações #3

Ink on paper • 24" x 19"
2013
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Headmaster #1

Ink on paper
19" x 24"
2013
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Headmaster #2

Ink on paper
19" x 24"
2013
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Headmaster #3

Ink on paper
19" x 24"
2013
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Headmaster #5

Ink on paper
19" x 24"
2013
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Headmaster #7

Ink on paper
19" x 24"
2013
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The Cahrrions

Oil on board
24" x 24" x 1"
2016
NFS

The Lookouts

Oil on board
42" x 36" x 1"
2013
SOLD

Pearl Tree #2

Mixed media
8.5" x 11"
2023
SOLD

Trophy Room

Oil on canvas on board
48" x 96" x 1"
2016
SOLD

Rabbit #1

Mixed media
12" x 12"
2023
$120

Evening on Westminster

Oil on board • 48" x 48" x 2"
2012
SOLD

Never Mind the Bollocks

Four Guys

Ink on paper
48" x 36"
2013
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With Lucia Buonaccorsi

Oil on wood panel • 48" x 48"
2018
SOLD

Wooster

Oil on wood panel
12" x 12" x 1"
2008
SOLD

Prudence Island Snow #1

Oil on masonite • 60" x 36"
2023
$1800

Three Guys

Ink on paper
48" x 36"
2013
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Trees #1

Oil on masonite
36" x 60"
2023
NFS

Two Guys Standing

Ink on paper
48" x 36"
2013
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Tree Stand #1

Mixed media
8.5" x 11"
2023
$125

Black Cat Pilgrim

Oil on board
48" x 48"
2024
$3600

Sunday

Oil on board
48" x 48"
2024
$3600

Dog #1

Ink on paper
Confirm Scale
2019
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Dog #2

Ink on paper
Confirm Scale
2019
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Dog #3

Ink on paper
Confirm Scale
2019
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Dog #4

Ink on paper
36" x 36"
2019
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Dog #5

Ink on paper
36" x 36"
2019
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Dog #6

Ink on paper
36" x 36"
2019
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Dog #7

Ink on paper
36" x 36"
2019
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Boy and Dog

Ink on paper
36" x 36"
2019
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Dog and Cop

Ink on paper
36" x 36"
2019
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Two Wolf Dogs

Ink on paper
36" x 36"
2019
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Set Design <i>From Here to Where</i> Wilbury Theatre Group 2025

From Here to Where
at Wilbury Theatre Group

Set Design
2025

From Here to Where
at Wilbury Theatre Group

Set Design
2025

From Here to Where
at Wilbury Theatre Group

Set Design
2025

From Here to Where
at Wilbury Theatre Group

Set Design
2025

From Here to Where
at Wilbury Theatre Group

Set Design
2025

From Here to Where
at Wilbury Theatre Group

Set Design
2025

From Here to Where
at Wilbury Theatre Group

Set Design
2025

Set Design <i>From Here to Where</i> Wilbury Theatre Group 2024

Octet
at Wilbury Theatre Group

Set Design
2025

Octet
at Wilbury Theatre Group

Set Design
2025

Octet
at Wilbury Theatre Group

Set Design
2025

Octet
at Wilbury Theatre Group

Set Design
2025

Octet
at Wilbury Theatre Group

Set Design
2025

Set Design <i>ONCE</i> Wilbury Theatre Group 2024

ONCE
Wilbury Theatre Group

Set Design
2024

ONCE
Wilbury Theatre Group

Set Design
2024

ONCE
Wilbury Theatre Group

Set Design
2024

ONCE
Wilbury Theatre Group

Set Design
2024

ONCE
Wilbury Theatre Group

Set Design
2024

ONCE
Wilbury Theatre Group

Set Design
2024

ONCE
Wilbury Theatre Group

Set Design
2024

ONCE
Wilbury Theatre Group

Set Design
2024

About the Artist

Statement from Sheryl Kopel, founder/director of the Prudence Island Artist in Residence Program:
During Monica’s 3-year tenure as an artist in residence on Prudence Island she took thousands of photos and videos on this island in Narragansett Bay that was originally Narragansett and Wampanoag land. She kept field notes, read numerous research papers on the island’s ecology and wildlife, and read over 50 books and articles on history, climate, wetlands, marsh reclamation, Narragansett Bay fishing industry, zoology, fish vision, Luminist Painters of New England Original history of Indigenous nations. And she sketched and drew and painted. ”My work is a visual recording of images gathered by my own eyes or images captured by my photos or ideas that I have encountered. I think of my paintings as poems and use painting and drawing as a kind of language. I am also a theatrical set designer and so I’m interested in ourselves as objects in space. I try not to be locked in about how and what I do. In the end, I just paint what interests me. I try to trust my process. I read constantly and I have historically been interested in how people behave with one another.” Shinn is interested in how different horizon lines in different parts of the world affect how people perceive themselves and the world around them, and how this ties into the idea of place; place not only in a very figurative and concrete sense but also the idea of place inherited and as a metaphor or way to talk about ourselves, where we find ourselves and our place within our landscape. “For me, Prudence Island is about a convergence of nature and this idea of place”. The Narragansett tribe’s name for Prudence Island is Chibachuwese or Chibachuwesset, which has been translated as “Little place separated by a passage” and “the place apart”. Although the island is only a short ferry ride from the mainland, it does feel beautifully separated from the hustle and bustle of modern life. There are relatively few people, and the wildlife and vegetation, and of course the proximity to the bay itself provide the perfect atmosphere for a retreat. Monica became one with the island during her residency and produced a deep and rich body of work. She metabolized the experience and it has become part of who she is today, and in that way it will always resonate in the art that she makes.

Statement from
Paula Martiesian, Director
Bank RI Gallery, February 2023
You might see her on a truck hauling compost or perhaps you’d spot her high on a ladder restoring the enamel surface of the former gas station that houses the West Broadway Neighborhood Association on Westminster Street. Maybe you’d catch a glimpse of her with a blowtorch in hand teaching a welding class at the Steelyard or teaching art at School One. Where you won’t see is the intensely private Providence artist Monica Shinn at home in her Fox Point studio painting. Shinn guards her studio and studio time. It’s here in the safety of her home, that Shinn’s creativity runs free. Her paintings are novellas in color and line, stories that describe ordinary everyday life with a distilled sense of wonder and deep foundation of empathy. Shinn moved to Providence in the 1990s after attending Oregon College of Arts and Crafts. Driving along route 95, she saw the colorful houses in Fox Point and thought she’d like to live there. She and her longtime girlfriend Mare Davis got off the freeway to start their life in a city that was beginning to craft an identity as an arts town. It was a good fit for them both and 21 years later, they are still in Providence enjoying the creative community. Shinn will paint any corner of life in whatever neighborhood she inhabits. A tugboat under the bridge at India Point, a fellow compost worker and her dear elderly dog, an older couple together for years and years – all are inspiration for her paintings. The paint can be thick or thin, with both large single swatches of color or smaller dabs. The line that draws them together is descriptively exquisite and deceptively simple. To describe a person or a creature fully with such economy of line is a gift Shinn uses to great advantage. Shinn’s work is more than colors on canvas or descriptive line. She gets to the heart of what she paints in a manner that draws people in. In a time when so much of art is political and social commentary, Shinn takes the time to look at real people in their very real worlds.

Statement from Buonaccorsi +
Agniel Exhibit, 2012
Buonaccorsi + Agniel are honored to present this series of new paintings and drawings by Monica Shinn. The exhibition is Shinn's first since Brown University's 2011 survey of Rhode Island painters, Among the Breakage at the David Winton Bell Gallery. Most recently, her drawings of Fado singer António Variações were published in the fourth issue of the internationally acclaimed magazine Headmaster. Some places are constants in Monica Shinn's work: the Horseneck Beach Campground where Rhode Island meets Massachusetts; the carved coastline and working harbor of Provincetown at the tip of Cape Cod; the streets and houses of Providence's historic Fox Point neighborhood. I have worked with Monica Shinn since 1996. Over the last sixeen years I have watched her return to these places again and again. Drawing in a car, painting out the window of a living room, working from a photograph in her studio, making images on site, out of doors, en plein air. She returns to people too, her family most often, but also actors she has worked with, political activists she admires and other anonymous children, men and women. In her largest paintings all these elements meet and combine. Vignettes float like ideas in a stream of consciousness, miniature paintings within paintings, carefully placed in layered spaces that fold and unfold around a couple embracing here, a girl dancing there, a child in a costume, animals, plants, solar systems... the painting becoming its own a universe of ideas. The through line in Monica Shinn's work for me is that she is fundamentally a romantic artist. What she chooses to dwell on, take time to render and hold up for the viewer is always subjective and personal. She lovingly limns her subjects and, somehow, the city or the coastline or the person or the dog is revealed to be awkward and vulnerable in a way that allows the viewer into the work. She helps the viewer to identify with things awkward and imperfect and to be vulnerable themselves.

Monica is more expressionist than literal in her use of color and her line work gestures at form, capturing more the love of looking and they way things can be than what is there. The work is expressionist,

but without sentimentality or artifice. The compositions are technically challenging and formally complicated. Monica's painted spaces veer and tilt; they swirl and spiral around receding depths or bow and bend away from bulges. The subjects precariously pose, often seeming to be on the brink of falling out of the space Monica has crafted. The landscapes are alive and urgent because of her compositional unrest. The figures are more compelling because of this tension. Even the most contemplative works are unquiet, taut and twisting drawing the viewer in and leaving them wanting more. - Sara Agniel Buonaccorsi

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

November 2025-January 2026
Paper Nautilus Bookstore
Exhibit of some recent paintings
Providence, RI

2024
Networks Rhode Island
& Chazan Collection
WaterFire Arts Center
Providence, RI

Residency Group Show
Narragansett Bay
National Estuarine Research Reserve
Prudence Island, RI

2023-2024
Residency Solo Show
Narragansett Bay
National Estuarine Research Reserve
Prudence Island, RI

2019
The Foxy One
Tiny Showcase Selected Print

Coastal Skye
Group Show
Skye Gallery & Coastal Contemporary Gallery
Providence & Newport, RI

Telling Herstory,
Creating the Future
Group Show
University of Rhode Island
Providence, RI

2018
We Wonder What Saved Us,
What For
Solo Exhibition
Skye Gallery
Providence, RI

2017
Thirty Years of Womens History Group Show
University of Rhode Island
Providence, RI

Yardie Art
Group Show
Juliens
Providence, RI

2016
Solo Exhibition
186 Carpenter St. Gallery
Providence, RI

Solo Exhibition
Wild Project Gallery
New York, NY

Monica Shinn & Heather Benze
Katherine Lovell Gallery
Tiverton, RI

I Look for Your Every Day
Selected print
Tiny Showcase / Headlight Hotel
Providence, RI

2015
NetWorks Ten Year Retrospective
Dedee Shattuck Gallery
Westport, MA

2014
NetWorks Biennial Show
Newport Art Museum
Newport, RI

Art Design Action from the Fringes
Outpost Journal
Providence, Rhode Island Issue

2013
Locally Made
RISD Museum
Recent acquisitions in collection
Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, RI

Did the Band Get Back Together
Print Edition
Tiny Showcase/Headlight Hotel
Providence, RI

Queer Pride Annual Group Show
Gallery Q
Providence, RI

Twenty Years of Silver Teapots
Oregon College of Arts and Crafts
Portland, OR

2012
Buonaccorsi + Agniel Gallery
Providence, RI
Solo Exhibition

Headmaster Magazine, No 4
“Antonio Variacoes: Drawings”

Katherine Lovell Gallery
Tiverton, RI
Group Invitational

Buonaccorsi + Agniel Gallery
Providence, RI
“Yes!” Group Show

2011
David Winton Bell Gallery,
List Art Center
Brown University, Providence, RI
Among the Breakage:
Ten Providence Painters

Gallery Q, Providence, RI
Queer Pride Group Show

Hera Gallery, Crossing Currents/
University of Rhode Island
Group Exhibition

2010
Downcity Pictures,
The Space at Alice
Providence, RI
Solo Exhibition

Stone House Gallery
Little Compton, RI
Group Show

2009
Firehouse 13, Providence, RI
Four Thieves, Group Show:
Shinn, Shapiro, Baine, Angel

2008
City Hall, Providence Rhode Island
Arts Council Group Show Park
as Muse
Providence, RI

2007
AS220 Project Space
Providence, RI
Cache Group show with
Calderone & Kazan

Pawtucket Arts Collaborative, Pawtucket, RI
Lecture Series: Insights: Individual Artists Series

MacDougall Gallery,
Pawtucket, RI
Group Show

2006
Gallery Agniel
Providence, RI
Shinn, Freedman, Sgouros & Barton

Gallery Agniel
Providence, RI
Drawings

Featured artist: Open Studios;
Pawtucket Arts Collaborative
Pawtucket, RI
Lecture Series:
Insights: Individual Artists

AFFILIATED SCHOOLS

Attended: LSU, Miami University,
Freehand School,
Portland Community College,
Oregon College of Arts and Crafts

Instructor: The Steel Yard,
Central Falls High School,
School One High School

VIDEO BIO ON NETWORKS RI:
https://networksrhodeisland.org/monica-shinn/

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Kerry Callery Award for
Distinguished Service to the Arts
Wilbury Theatre Group
Providence, RI
2025

Artist in Residence
Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
Prudence Island, RI
2019–2022

Aroha Philanthropies Teaching Grant
School One High School
Providence, RI
2018

Joseph A. Chazan Fellow
NetWorks Rhode Island
2014

Permanent Collection
Rhode Island School of Design Museum
2013

Grant Recipient
Rhode Island Council for the Arts
2008, 2009, 2012

THEATRE

Resident Artist
Wilbury Theatre Group
Providence, RI
Set design for:
From Here to Where, The Father, What the Constitution Means to Me, Once, Hir, Goodnight Sweetheart Goodnight, The Humans, Natasha Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, Lifted, Blasted, Jerusalem, Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead, How I Learned to Drive, Fun Home, Dry Land, Dance Nation, Crap’s Last Tape, Delores Goes to Poetry City.

Other productions include: Death of Some Salesmen, One Flea Spare(Perishable Theatre), The Colored Museum (Providence Black Rep) The Passion Play, Brown University.

PUBLICATIONS

Motif Magazine, Providence
“Powerful How I Learned to Drive at Wilbury Theater”
2018

Providence Monthly
”Paint the Town” (cover image)
October 2018

ArtScope Magazine, Boston
Gallery Spotlight: Skye Gallery
May 2018

Outpost Journal, Issue Four: Providence
Featured Artist
2014

Headmaster Magazine
Featured Artist, Drawings of António Variações
2012

Options Magazine, Vol. xxvii, No 8
Featured Artist
2009

Medicine and Health Rhode Island,
Rhode Island Medical Society Vol. 87
2004

Friends & Colleagues

The Steelyard

Headmaster

Wilbury Theatre Group

Tiny Showcase

NBNERR

Prudence Island

Prudence Island
Artists in Residence Program

Alan Greco Design