Baker Artist Portfolios

Tony Shore is a Baltimore-based artist who paints on Black velvet mostly recognized for his autobiographical paintings of blue-collar life in Southwest Baltimore . Tony is a recipient of a 2017 Franz and Virginia Bader Grant and a 2016 Rubys artist grant. He is the 2007 winner of The Walter and Janet Sondheim Prize as well as the 2005 winner of the Bethesda Painting Prize. He was a 2008 and 2016 finalist for the Trawick Prize and has been the recipient of several Maryland State Arts Council individual artist awards. He has recently exhibited his work with Ethan Cohen Fine Arts at Art Miami, and several museums throughout China. He has exhibited his work in New York at Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, the George Adams Gallery, Sloan Fine Arts, and Five Myles Gallery. Locally, Tony has exhibited at the Baltimore Museum of Art, The Delaware Art Museum, The Creative Alliance, Maryland Art Place, and the C. Grimaldis Gallery. Tony attended the Maryland Institute College of Art where he received his B.F.A. and Yale University where he received his M.F.A.. Tony attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Tony is aprofessor in the Painting department at The Maryland Institute College of Art.