Shelley Lake received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1976. Her experimentation with art and technology began more than 40 years ago, as a computer science major at Brown University.

In 1979, Lake earned a Master of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and became the first female graduate of the Architecture Machine Group, the institution now known as the Media Lab. At MIT, she trained with Nicholas Negroponte and Harold Edgerton, pioneers in the fusion of science, art and technology.

Featured in numerous international art exhibitions and film festivals, she has won a Clio award, Photoshop Guru award, Japan's NICOGRAPH award, placed first in an AT&T image competition and was a technical director for the Academy Award winning, The Last Starfighter.

Lake also holds a Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Cleveland Chiropractic College and is currently a Master of Fine Arts Candidate at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Founder and Department Chair David Ross has created an “interdisciplinary approach to holistic art making, a global community of artists and cultural producers who look beyond a consensus driven approach to how we define what’s important in contemporary art.”