Bill Erickson's Display Posts Shortcode plugin can be used to easily display a list of posts wherever shortcodes work. It does not have a built-in option to specify the IDs or slugs of categories if you wish to exclude any. But it can be extended using the display_posts_shortcode_args filter.
Add the code below in child theme's functions.php to make available a cat_not_in parameter whose value will be the ID or comma separated IDs of categories you wish to be excluded from the listing:
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oh so close, what if we wanted to exclude a specific category from custom-archive-page-template-genesis
oh so close, what if we wanted to exclude a specific category from custom-archive-page-template-genesis
I am using:
http://www.sridharkatakam.com/custom-archive-page-template-genesis/
and don’t want my articles category to show up in this archive list.
p.s your site is my go to first for ideas