Mindy Shapero (b. 1974 in Louisville, KY) earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD (1997) and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (2003). Shapero’s work has been shown extensively in institutions across the country in exhibitions such as, Highlights from the Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (2017); NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL (2015); Storytelling as Craft, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY (2013); New Art for a New Century: Recent Acquisitions 2000-2009, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, (2010); Like color in pictures, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO (2007); The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. (2006); Thing: New Sculpture From LA, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2005), and a two-person exhibition with Jockum Nordström at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (2006), among others.