A native of Los Angeles, prior to her time at CAAM, Shaw was the executive director of New Orleans-based Pelican Bomb, a non-profit contemporary art organization that was a forum for exhibitions, public programs, and arts journalism to practice, rethinking organizational sustainability, and creative publishing strategies. Shaw lectures and moderates panels on topics including values-based institution building, translating theory. She was chosen for the NAMAC National Leadership Institute in 2013 and the Salzburg Global Forum for Young Cultural Innovators in 2016.

Shaw holds a B.A. in History of Art from Yale University, where she worked at the Yale Center for British Art, and early in her career she interned in curatorial departments at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the National Gallery of Art in Washington,D.C. Later she was research manager at David Zwirner gallery in New York.

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