Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2011 The Portraits of Sylvia Shap: Explorations and Revelations, USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
1997 Images of the Art World, University of Judaism, Los Angeles, California
1989 Some Members of My Family, The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
1988 Some Members of My Family, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park
1985 Sylvia Shap: A Retrospective View, Simard/Halm Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1980 Sylvia Shap, Art Gallery, Brand Library, Glendale, California
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 Picturing Identity: Selections from the Permanent Collection and the Gail Oxford Collection, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
2007 Then and Now: Highlights from the USC Fisher Gallery Collections, USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
2005 Insatiable Desires, USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
2003 Eighteen Years of Exhibitions, Platt Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2002 Representing Women: Anonymous/Individual/Ideal, USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
2000 USC Collects California, USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
1999 Recent Acquisitions, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1997 Portraits, Molly Barnes Gallery 258, Los Angeles, California
1996 Southwest ’96, The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1995 Art Journeys, The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
1994 Drawn West, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, Utah
1992 Two Departures, A dual solo exhibition: Sylvia Shap / Ron Shap, Finegood Exhibition Space, Los Angeles, California
1991 Inaugural Exhibition, Nemiroff / Deutsch Fine Art, Los Angeles, California
1990 Portraits, The Rutgers-Barclay Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1990 Portraits, Jose Drudis-Biada Art Gallery, Mount St. Mary's College
1990 Established Artists, Valerie Miller Fine Art, Palm Desert, California
1990 Hollywood: Portraits of Stars, Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, California
1987 Contemporary Southern California Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
1987 Contemporary Southern California Art, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1987 American Art Today: The Portrait, The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida
1986 Looking In - Looking out: Contemporary Portraits by Women Artists, Montgomery Gallery, Claremont Colleges, California
1986 Off the Street, Cultural Affairs Department, City of Los Angeles, California
1984 About Face, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
1984 About Face, The Museum, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
1984 About Face, Nave Museum, Victoria, Texas
1983 Facings, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, California
1982 Southern California Realism, Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, California
1981 Portraits in Miniature, Fischer Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
1980 Eccentricities: Contemporary Photography, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
1979 Portraits 79, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1978 First Biennial Show, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1976 L.A. 8 Painting and Sculpture 76, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
1975 All California Show, Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, California