Amelia Bates Shachoy’s paintings and photographs have been exhibited in approximately 50 juried solo and group shows in New York City; Washington, DC; and Baltimore, Maryland. In 2010, her painting "Berkshire Summer #2" was selected for the permanent collection of the Johns Hopkins University Medical Center. She received the third place award for a painting exhibited in the Touchstone Gallery’s “Art on the Small Side” December 2007 show. Also at Touchstone, she received the first place award for a photograph of trash taken during the Cherry Blossom season at the Tidal Basin in Washington, DC shown in the 2014 “Atrocious Trash” contest to raise awareness of the environment. She received Honorable Mention awards for paintings in the July 2006 and November 2004 shows at the Capitol Hill Art League in Washington, DC. She was represented by the Paper-Rock-Scissors gallery in Baltimore from 2003-2005. Her photographs of India were exhibited in her solo show “Images of India” at the Gandhi Memorial Center in Washington, DC in the spring of 2001.

Amelia’s art education includes a Certificate in Drawing and Painting from the Corcoran College of Art + Design at the Corcoran Gallery of Art—one of the few museum schools in the country at one of the first private museums in the United States; the Drawing Marathon at the New York Studio School; and courses at the Parsons School of Design in New York City, and the Washington Studio School in Washington, DC. She has completed summer residency programs at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) Summer Institute in the Berkshires in New York State; and competitive entrance programs with the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont, and at Ox-Bow, a program of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, located in Saugatuck, Michigan. She has also taken numerous workshops in New York and Washington, DC. She maintained a studio at the Jackson Art Center in Georgetown from 2011 through 2018. She currently works at her home studio.