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Education

B.F.A. Illustration
Watkins College of Art & Design 2012
Concentrations in Illustration & Printmaking

Employment

Finer Signs
Owner/Painter
2016-present

LouisvilleTool Library
Co-Founder, Board Member, Committee Leader
2022-present

University of Chicago Arts Incubator at Arts & Public Life
Instructor, Design Apprenticeship Program
2019-2020

shelbyrodeffer.com
Freelance
2009-present

DigitasLBi
Designer & Illustrator
2013-2016

redpepper
Designer & Illustrator
2011-2013

Areas of Practice

Sign Painting • Illustration • Textile Painting • Murals • Graphic Design

Exhibitions

2026 The Stories We Tell
La Galería at Foko - Louisville, KY

2025 This is a Good Sign
Chicago Truborn Gallery - Chicago, IL

***2025 Ten Dollar Words
Friend of Mine - Louisville, KY

2024 Friends of Friends [Curated by Jeffrey Sincich and Josh Stover]
Isetan Shinjuku - Tokyo, Japan

2024 Choice Words [Curated by Dan Brawner, Dale Addy, and Lane Carnell]
Leu Center for Visual Arts at Belmont - Nashville, TN

***2023 Supernatural
Canary Club - Louisville, KY

***2023 Entropy’s Stitch
Coop Gallery - Nashville, TN

2022 Copy + Paste
Nucleus Portland - Portland, OR

2020 NSFW [Curated by Dasha Matsuura]
Spoke Art - San Francisco, CA

2020 Gentle Revolution Presents The Pre-Vinylettes’ Suffragette Centennial
Ford Gallery - Portland, OR

2020 Artists Run Chicago
Hyde Park Art Center - Chicago, IL

2020 Street Canvas
Chicago Art Department - Chicago, IL

2020 Greenhouse
Paper Hat - Chicago, IL

2020 3rd Midwest Open
Woman-Made Gallery - Chicago, IL

2019 Freak Flag
Paper Hat - Chicago, IL

2019 HARD ANGLES
the East Room - Chicago, IL

2019 TACTILE 3
Tactile Collective - London UK

2019 HOV Sessions Live Painting Series
House of Vans - Chicago, IL

2019 Dear Beer 2
Paper Hat - Chicago, IL

2019 The Best Opposition is a Good Composition
Studio Two Three - Richmond, VA

***2018 SOFT & LOUD: New Works by Shelby Rodeffer
The Martin - Chicago, IL

***2018 Shelby Rodeffer
Godschalx Gallery at St. Norbert College - De Pere, WI

2018 Cut It Out
Electro Pepper - Chicago IL

2018 The Grand Exhibition of the Pre-Vinylite Society: An 18th Century Revival
Bargehouse Oxo Tower Wharf - London, UK

2018 Street Canvas
Chicago Art Department - Chicago, IL

2018 312 Day
House of Vans - Chicago, IL

2018 Holidays
The East Room - Chicago, IL

2017 Practice Elements
Sulzer Regional Library - Chicago, IL

***2017 KNOWN UNKNOWN
John Michael Kohler Art Center - Sheboygan, WI

2017 For Hire: Contemporary Sign Painting in America
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft - Houston, TX

2017 The Pre-Vinylette Society: An International Showcase of Women Sign Painters [Co-Curator]
Chicago Art Department - Chicago, IL

2017 Letterheads Typefest - Sign Painters and Type-Centric Exhibit
Illsol Space - Tampa, FL

2017 En Jointe
Julia Martin Gallery - Nashville, TN

(*** - solo exhibitions)

Awards

First In Show : 3rd Midwest Open
Woman Made Gallery
2020

Gold ADDY : Chicago Neighborhood Map
American Advertising Federation Chicago
2016

Cannes Young Lions Print Winner
USA Today

Press

“Watkins Alumna Shelby Rodeffer”
by Haley Charlton, Belmont University
2025

“Grounded in the Lessons of time by Shelby Rodeffer”
by Nadine Nakanishi, New Suns Magazine newsuns.net
2024

by Joe Nolan, Nashville Scene
2023

“An Interview with Shelby Rodeffer”
by Sierra Romesburg, Ingrain Magazine, Goose Island Beer Co.
2019

“In the Studio: Artist Shelby Rodeffer”
House of Vans Chicago SESSIONS
2019

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‘The Terrible Three from Tennessee’ was a show featuring new work by Shelby Rodeffer, Julian Baker and Andy Gregg at Watkins Arcade Gallery in Nashville, Tennessee.