CURRENT AND UPCOMING SHOWS:
July 3 - 27, 2025
Galatea and Friends, Galatea Fine Art
460B, Harrison Av., #B-6
SoWa, Boston, MA
July 12, 2024 - May, 2026
Meredith Sculpture Walk - Outdoor Juried show
A Tear for October 7
marble on burned wood, 13 x 18 x 9 Inches
SCULPTURES
RECOGNITION
GALLERIES
Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
Bleu Raven Gallery, Rockland, ME
Stewart Clifford Gallery, Provincetown, MA
AWARDS
Second prize, James King Bonnar Show, Newton, MA. 2020
First prize, Brook Arts and Community Center, Dedham, MA. 2019
Honorable Mention, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston MA. 2019
GROUPS
New England Sculptors Association
The National Sculpture Society
EXHIBITIONS
2025
Other Dimensions, Galatea Fine Art, SoWa, Boston, MA
4th Annual Inside/Out, Juried exhibition, The Spaulding R. Aldrich Heritage Gallery, Whitinsville, MA
Attleboro Arts Museum - Members' Exhibition, Attleboro, MA
2024
Cape Cod Open Sculpture Invitational - Outdoor Juried show, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
Flying Horse 15th Outdoor Sculpture Art Exhibit - Juried show, Pingree School, South Hamilton, MA
Outdoor Sculpture Art Exhibit, Danvers, MA
Attleboro Arts Museum “8 Visions” - Juried show , Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
Looking at Nature, Looking at People - solo show, Stewart Clifford Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Searching for Hope in Dark Times - Memy Ish Shalom solo show, Galatea Fine Art, SoWa, Boston, MA
Meredith Sculpture Walk - Outdoor Juried show, Meredith, NH 03253
Form and Flow: Sculptures unveiled, Juried show, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston MA
Newton Open Studios 2024, Art In and Out of The Villa, West Newton, MA
Harmony In Diversity: Uniting Artistic ExpressionExhibition, Galatea Fine Art , SoWa, Boston, MA
2023
Attleboro Arts Museum - Members' Exhibition, Attleboro, MA
Flying Horse 14th Outdoor Sculpture Art Exhibit, Juried show, South Hamilton, MA
2023 Annual Awards Show - Newton Art Association, Newton, MA
2023 Stone Carving Symposium and In door Exhibit, Contemporary Arts International (CAI), Acton, MA
Soulful Sculpture, Juried show, LEXART and NESA, Lexington, MA
Captured Moments - The sculpture of Memy Ish Shalom, Stewart Clifford Gallery, Provincetown, MA
James Kind Bonnar Show, Morse Institute, Natick, MA
Happy Place, Juried exhibition, Juried exhibition, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
Winter's Wonder, Juried exhibition, Art on Main Gallery, West Stockbridge, MA
From The Heart, Juried exhibition, Mosesian Center for the Art, Watertown, MA
Looking Forward, Galatea members show, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
New England Sculptors Association, Juried show, Marblehead Art Association, Marblehead, MA
2nd Annual Inside/Out, Juried exhibition, The Spaulding R. Aldrich Heritage Gallery, Whitinsville, MA
2022
Memy Ish Shalom - Dreams and Memories, Galatea Fine Art - SoWa, Boston, MA
The Alchemy of Autumn, Juried show, Old Schwamb Mill, Arlington, MA
Small Sculpture Indoor Exhibition, Juried show, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
2022 Stone Carving Symposium, YV Art Museum, Contemporary Arts International (CAI), Acton, MA
New England Sculptors Association, Juried show, Newbury Court, Concord, MA
Memy Ish Shalom - Reflections on Time and Motion, Stewart Clifford Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Art of the Line, Galatea Fine Art - SoWa, Boston, MA
Big Works Group Exhibition, Juried show, Newburyport Art Gallery, Newburyport, MA
The Art of Healing, Nathaniel Allen House, West Newton, MA
Human Being / Being Human Exhibition, Juried show, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA
Inside/Out, Juried show, The Spaulding R. Aldrich Heritage Gallery, Whitinsville, MA
2021
Group Retrospective, Stewart Clifford Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Giving, Juried show, Mother Brook Arts and Community Center, Dedham, MA
James Kind Bonnar Show, Wedeman Gallery, Lasell University, MA
Newburyport Art Association Fall Show, Juried show, Newburyport, MA
Old Schwamb Mill Park, Outdoor juried show, Arlington, MA
Newton Art Association Annual Awards Show 2021, Online Exhibition
Memy Ish Shalom - Motion, Movement, Merging, Stewart Clifford Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Newton Art Association Prize Winner Show, Suzuki School of Music, Newton, MA
In All The Bridges We Made, 24th Regional Juried show, Newburyport, MA
Positivity, Juried show, Newburyport, MA
Re-Emergence – A New Hope, Juried show, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA
The Dreams, honeyjones, Cambridge, MA
2020
James King Bonnar Show, https://newtonartassociation.com/james-king-bonnar-show-2020/
Autumn Wonders, Stewart Clifford Gallery, Provincetown, MA
NAA The Annual Awards Exhibit, https://newtonartassociation.com/naa-annual-awards-show-2020
CAA MARY SCHEIN FALL SALON, Kathryn Schultz Gallery & University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Memy Ish Shalom - Father and Son, Stewart Clifford Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Social Justice, Personaland, https://www.personaland.com/hut/exhibition/social-justice
2019
Advocacy Through Art, Juried show, TILL Wave Gallery, Watertown, MA
Transitions, Juried show, Mother Brook Arts and Community Center, Dedham, MA
The Annual Awards Exhibit, Newton Free Library, Newton Center, MA
MARY SCHEIN FALL SALON, Kathryn Schultz Gallery & University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA
NAA New Members Show, Nordic Hall, Scandinavian Culture Center, West Newton, MA
Still Life, A Look at the Ordinary, Juried show, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston MA
ABOUT
ARTIST STATEMENT
My art responds to the personal and the universal human experience.
I strive to transform these experiences into sculptures, both abstract and figurative, to capture motion and to express deep emotions.
I utilize a range of mediums such as clay, resin, bronze, stone, natural and exotic wood, and I continue to explore and try out additional mediums and techniques.
BIO
Memy Ish-Shalom is a sculptor working in clay, bronze, resin, stone and wood.
Born in 1960 and raised in Jerusalem, Israel, he initially relocated to the USA in 2002, and later emigrated and settled in Newton, Massachusetts. In 2014, he ended a 30 years career in technology, thus allowing himself to focus entirely on making sculptures.
Ish-Shalom’s works were exhibited in several museums and included in over 50 group exhibitions and one person shows. He received several awards. His works appear in public and private art collections. Two of his large granite sculptures are part of the permanent – “New Art Archeology” art collection - of the YV Art museum in Acton, MA.
Ish-Shalom is represented by the Stewart Clifford Gallery in Provincetown, MA. He is a member of the Galatea Fine Art Gallery, SoWa, of the New England Sculptors Association, The National Sculpture Society and of the Newton Art Association.
