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2019 - Opening performance for the KAI art center in Tallinn, Estonia.

Her Norway and Arctic expeditions were preceded by her similarly experiential ‘’Sunken City’’ projects. For these installations Shirley used silicone and bronze, bathed in lasers, fog and dense soundscapes, to create a language of architecture and urban space both ancient and futuristic, terrifying and utopian. These were exhibited in Basel, New York, and Brooklyn.

2018 - /e-media-c\ - Creative tech week- Hunter's college Black Box- Newyork. with David Watson, Peter Zummo, Kevin Shea.

2016 - 12.6 Lyrae - The Chimney - Brooklyn, New York

2010 – 0910 Light Shots – Chelsea Art Museum. Project Room for New Media – New York City, NY

2010 – Arctic Lights – Dorfman Projects – New York City, NY.

2010 – Docks Art Fair – Marc de Puechredon Gallery – Lyon, France.

2009 – Jewels of Kvinesdal – Utsikten Art Center – Kvinesdal, Norway (public art commission)

In 2008 Shirley began sculpting in pure light. Light Shot 0910 explores the spirituality of geometry through two mysterious rectangles of light intersecting in mid-air, shown in a solo exhibit at the Chelsea Art Museum. Shooting Stair uses light diodes and high-pressured mist to form a staircase made of light, installed outdoors in a private collection in Southampton, New York.

2008 – Sunken City – Marc de Puechredon Gallery – Basel, Switzerland

2008 – Sunken City Episode II – Emily Harvey Foundation – New York City, NY.

2007 – Sunken City Preludes – PowerHouse Projects – Brooklyn, NY.

Shirley solo and collaborative projects have also been exhibited at the KAI art center in Estonia,The Queens Museum, Museum of Moving Image, the former Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA, the Moscow Biennale, New York, the Video Lounge at ArtBasel Miami 2006, and The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg Russia.

Between 1997 and 2002, she worked as a studio assistant for Nam June Paik, the US-based Korean artist and founder of video art, assisting him in the development with Norman Ballard of a number of public laser works displayed at the Olympic Park Lake in Seoul, Korea and in his Retrospective "The Worlds of Nam June Paik" at the S.R.Guggenheim, New York U.S.A. and Bilbao, Spain. She also participated in the construction, installation and take down of numerous of his CRT-based sculptures including "Tv Fish" ( Holly Soloman Gallery), "The Megatron" (The Smithsonian Museum of American Art), "Tv Garden" ( S.R. Guggenheim Museum ). Since 2005 she has been an active contributor for the restoration and preservation of Nam June Paik CRt based art works for Museums around the world. She has extended her efforts in collaboration with CTL Electronics Inc. to help museums and private collections in the restoration of numerous new media artworks of artists such as Bruce Nauman, Diana Thater, Gary Hill, Bill Viola, Robert Irwin to name a few. [edit]

In 1997, Shirley was a founding member of The New York International Fringe Festival and co-directed Fringe Al Fresco up until 2001, which staged over 100 artists for the first two years of the festival in public locations all over the Lower East Side in New York. From 2002-2004, with director and impresario Aaron Beall, she founded the Times Square Arts Center, installed in the former notorious Adult entertainment center on 42nd and 8th avenue in New York called "Show World", where over 100 performances, screenings and installations were organized. In 2005 she co-founded the project [PAM] Perpetual Art Machine, an interactive installation and video art collective of over 2000 members and video artists.[PAM] presented over 50 exhibitions drawing from the video art collective worldwide.

Raphaele Shirley is a multi-media artist whose work spans installation art, light sculpture, video, art collectives, live performances and social intervention. Her work deals with questions of space, time, primordial life forces, and the ephemeral. Since her beginnings in New York City (1993), where she currently lives and works, she has been instrumental in the creation of several large-scale social projects such as [PAM] Perpetual Art Machine and the New York International Fringe Festival. She has been awarded several grants recently from the Norwegian arts council for commissioned public and video works. Several of the projects she has been involved in have received international acclaimed awards. She shows her work nationally and internationally.

Raphaele Shirley (born 1969 in Wisconsin, US) is a French-American artist.