Jewel Shaw, Nêhiyawak (Cree)/Métis, was born and raised in High Prairie, Alberta. She earned a Master’s of Fine Art in Printmaking from the University of Alberta, Edmonton (2008). Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in various group exhibitions, most recently including: Bienal Do Douro, Alijo, Portugal (2020); Global Print 2019, Douro, Portugal (2019); Novosibirsk International Triennial, State Art Museum, Novosibirsk, Russia (2018); Li Salay, Alberta Gallery of Art, Edmonton, AB (2018); New Impressions: Experiments in Contemporary Native American Printmaking, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico (2017); Kyoto Hanga 2016: The International Print Exhibition Canada & Japan, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan (2016); Weaving the Past into the Present, Contemporary Native American Printmaking, International Print Centre New York, Chelsea Gallery, New York (2015); Six Artists Etching, Shoestring Press, Brooklyn (2015); LandMarks: Indigenous Communities Connect, Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque (2014); The View From Here: Alberta Biennial for Contemporary Art, Alberta Gallery of Art, Edmonton (2013). 

Shaw has attended artist residencies in Canada, the United States, and Australia, and has been the recipient of many grants and awards. Her work can be found in various publications and collections in Canada and abroad. Shaw currently explores memory, identity, and loss through symbolic imagery and found objects. She uses traditional printmaking, drawing, and digital media to illustrate personal narratives that investigate the collective and genetic memory of trauma and grief. The objects, images, and text are metaphors, intended to trigger memory and elicit stories that may otherwise remain buried.