SHANNON EBNER
b. 1971, Englewood, New Jersey
> WORKS
EDUCATION
2000 MFA, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
1993 BA, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
Sadie Coles, London, UK (Forthcoming)
A Language of Exposures, Wallspace, New York
2011
Hammer Museum/LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
2010
Signal Hill, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, Italy
2009
Invisible Language Workshop, Wallspace, New York, NY
2007
Special Project: Shannon Ebner, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
The Sun & the Sign, Wallspace, New York, NY
2005
Dead Democracy Letters, Wallspace, New York, NY
2003
Margo Victor Presents, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Things, Words and Consequences—Curated by Sanya Kantarovsky and Stas Shuripa, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Deagu Photo Biennial Korea—curated by Charlotte Cotton, Korea
Ecstatic Alphabets—curated by Laura Hoptman, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
March, Sadie Coles, London, UK
Affective Turns? Pepin Moore, Los Angeles, CA
2011
The Air We Breathe, SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA
September 11 – curated by Peter Eleey, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York
“Glee,” curated by Cecilia Alemani at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, California
Illuminations, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Vision is Elastic. Thought is Elastic – curated by Moyra Davey & Zoe Leonard, Murray Guy, New York, NY
The Spectacular of Vernacular, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
How Soon is Now, The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow
The Smithson Effect, Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT
2010
Papier Photo – curated by Sophie Berrebi, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris
Pleated Blinds - curated by Ory Dessau, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Page – curated by John Stezaker and Matthew Higgs, Kimmerich, New York, NY
6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Recontres d’Arles Discovery Award, Arles, France
At Home / Not At Home – Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2009
Time - Life Part II, Taxter & Spengemann, New York, NY
Character Generator—curated by Matthew Lyons, Eleven Rivington, New York, MY
Sundown, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium
Saints and Sinners—curated by Laura Hoptman, The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
A Wild Party and a New Road, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008
Catawampus—curated by Amy Granat & Matt Keegan, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN (Ex. cat)
The World Is All That Is The Case—curated by Arthur Ou, Hudson Franklin, New York, NY
Untitled (Vicarious), Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Imaginary Thing—curated by Peter Eleey, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
History Keeps Me Awake at Night: A Geneology of Wojnarowicz, PPOW, New York
Not So Subtle Subtitle—curated by Matthew Brannon, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY
The 2008 Whitney Biennial—curated by Henrietta Huldisch and Shamim M. Momin, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2007
I am Eyebeam—organized by Melanie Schiff and Lorelei Stewart, Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
Catawampus (for H.D.)—curated by Matt Keegan, Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, IL
A New Reality: Black-and-White Photography in Contemporary Art, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
Learn to Read—curated by Vincent Honore & Maeve Polkinhorn, Tate Modern, London, UK
Last Attraction Next Exit—curated by Neville Wakefield, Ridley Road, London, UK
Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millenium-—curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Gunnar B. Kvaran, Hans Ulrich Obrist, (travelling to venues in France and Poland)
Shared Women—curated by Eve Fowler, Emily Roysdon and A.L. Steiner, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Interventions, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Psychogeographies, Glendale College of Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millenium-—curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Gunnar B. Kvaran, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Cataract, Wallspace, New York, NY
The California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County, CA
Intersections: Atlanta Collects Photography, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Shifting Tropologies—curated by Trevor Richardson, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA (Ex. cat)
Locale—curated by Kris Kuramitsu, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Too Much Love—curated by Amy Adler, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Le Retour de la Colonne Durutti—curated by Gyonata Bonvincini, Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany
Trace—curated by Shamim M. Momin, The Whitney Museum at Altria, New York, NY
Chaos or Control—curated by James Welling, UCLA School of Architecture Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Aantekeningen—curated by Public Holiday Projects, Expodium, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Monuments for the USA—curated by Ralph Rugoff, White Columns, New York, NY (ex. catalogue, touring from the CCA Wattis Institute)
2005
The Plain of Heaven—curated by Peter Eleey for Creative Time, New York, NY
Talk to the Land—curated by Matt Keegan, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
Response—curated by Matthew Distel, Morlan Art Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY
Wordplay, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Post No Bills—curated By Matthew Higgs, White Columns, New York, NY
Sugartown, Participant Inc., New York, NY
The Picture is the Problem—curated by Walead Beshty, The Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY
Monuments for America—curated by Ralph Rugoff, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
Manufactured Self, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
2004
High Desert Test Site 4, Joshua Tree, CA
Strange Animal—organized by Giovanni Jance in conjunction with Andrea Zittel and High Desert Test Sites, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
Itineraries—curated by Christopher Balaschak, Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles, CA
2003
High Desert Test Site 3, Joshua Tree, CA
Sea—curated by Benjamin Donaldson & Lisa Kereszi, Jen Bekman, New York, NY
2002
Anti-Form, New Photographic Work from Los Angeles —curated by James Welling, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO
Project Room exhibition, Lemonsky: projects + editions, Los Angeles, CA
2000
Graduate Thesis Exhibition, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
1998
Illegal Performance (an experimental-text-based performance), The Judson Church, New York, NY
Pedestrian Union, St. Mark’s Poetry Project, New York, NY
ARTIST PROJECTS/COMMISIOINS
2012
Dia Art Foundation, Artist Web Project
2009
Shannon Ebner: The Sun as Error, Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Dexter Sinister
CURATION
2010
“They Knew What They Wanted,” curated by Shannon Ebner, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007
Blow Both of Us—curated by Shannon Ebner & Adam Putnam, Participant, Inc., New York, NY
REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
2011
Marcus, Sara, “Vision is elastic. Thought is elastic.” Artforum.com, May 2011
2010
Smith, Roberta, “Art? Life? Must We Choose?” The New York Times, July 1, 2010
McDonough, Tom, “Concrete Poetry,” Artforum, April 2010.
Lange, Christy, “No End in Sight,” frieze, April 2010, pp 88-91.
Finkel, Jori, “First Look, this month’s art magazines,” Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2010.
Melendez, Franklin, "Shannon Ebner," Critics' Picks, Artforum.com, January 20, 2010
2009
Aletti, Vince, “Shannon Ebner,” The New Yorker, November 23, 2009.
Holte, Michael Ned, “Best of 2009,” Artforum, (cover image) December 2009.
Sillman, Amy, “Best of 2009,” Artforum, (cover image) December 2009.
Amir, Yaelle, “Modern-Day Hieroglyphs,” ARTslant, November 2009.
Butler, Lauren O’Neil, “Character Generator,” Artforum, November 2009.
Ebner, Shannon, “500 Words,” Artforum.com, March 5, 2009
Shannon Ebner: The Sun as Error, Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Dexter Sinister, March, 2009.
2008
Lawn, Andrzej, “Whitney Biennial 2008,” Flash Art, Vol XLI No. 260, May – June 2008
Schambelan, Elizabeth,, “Whitney Biennial,” Artforum, Summer 2008.
2007
Higgs, Matthew, “Best of 2007,” Artforum Magazine, December 2007.
Morton, Julia, “Eye Candy v. Hard Candy,” Artnet Magazine, November 15, 2007
Momin, Shamim M., ed. Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast. Vitoria-Gasteiz: Centro Montehermoso, November, 2007.
Genocchio, Benjamin, "Realism's Power, Distilled," The New York Times, Sunday, September 16, 2007.
Turvey, Lisa, "Words Words Words: Photographs by Shannon Ebner," Aperture Magazine, Summer 2007.
Torop, Dan, “Shannon Ebner,” Modern Painters, 2007
Keegan, Matt, Art on Paper, July-August, 2007
Stocchi, Francesco, “Critics’ Pick: Shannon Ebner,” Artforum.com, March 8, 2007.
McClemont, Doug “Shannon Ebner at Wallspace,” Saatchi-gallery.co.uk, March 3, 2007
O’Neill-Butler, Lauren, “Shannon Ebner,” Time Out New York, Art Reviews, Issue 597, March 8-14, 2007.
Allsop, Laura, “Sing of the Time: Shannon Ebner,” Artreview Issue 09, Previews: Our pick of the best New York shows during and after the Armory, p.175 , February 2007.
Wagner, Alex, “Sign Language: Shannon Ebner’s Unnatural Beauty,” The Fader, March 2007.
Cornell, Lauren, “Art Review: Blow Both of Us,” Time Out, Issue 591, January 25-31, 2007.
Beil, Kim, “Powers of Ten,” Art Ltd., West Coast Art + Design Magazine, January 2007.
2006
Beil, Kim, “Powers of Ten,” Art Ltd., December 2006.
Schmidt, Kirsten, “Poetic Vision and Abundant Culture,” NY Arts Magazine, September/October 2006.
Ulrich Obrist, Hans, “Special Focus: Art Photography,” Art Review, Issue 04, October 2006.
Ned Holte, Michael, “Shannon Ebner,” The California Biennial, (Ex. cat) Newport Beach: Orange Country Museum of Art, October 2006.
Amoreen, Armetta, “Out of the Box: North Drive Press,” Art on Paper, October 2006.
Bedford, Christopher, “Museum Previews: The California Biennial,” Artforum, October 2006.
Witness #1, Tuscon: Nazraeli Press, 2006.
Kushner, Rachel, “California’s Rising Art Stars,” C, October 2006.
Sholis, Brian, “Critics’ Pick: Trace,” Artforum.com, September, 2006
Johnson, Ken, “Trace,” The New York Times, Art in Review, August 18, 2006
Woodward, Richard B., “Altered States,” ArtNEWS, March 2006
Keegan, Matt. “Top Ten List” Artforum, February 2006
Hawkins, Chloe, “Just Plain Heaven,” New York Arts Magazine, March/April, 2006
2005
Eleey, Peter, “Terra Reincognita,” The Plain of Heaven. (Ex. cat) New York: Creative Time, 2005.
“Future Greats,” Art Review, Vol. IX, December, 2005
Smith, Roberta. “Robert Melee: In Between False Comforts; Talk to the Land,” The New
York Times, Art in Review, November 11, 2005
Cascade, Rebecca. “Character Building,” Elle Magazine, November 2005
Eeley, Peter. “Shannon Ebner,” Frieze, Issue 92, July/August 2005
Smith, Roberta. “Shannon Ebner,” The New York Times, Art In Review, March 18, 2005
2004
Myers, Holly. “The city of L.A., gauzy but familiar,” The L.A. Times, August 20,
Holte, Michael Ned. “Itineraries,” Critic’s Pick, Artforum.com, July, 2004.
Artforum, “Top Ten” list by Trisha Donnelly (March issue)
2003
Into the Abyss—edited by Adam Putnam
Aletti, Vince. “Shortlist,” The Village Voice, August 27th.
1997
The New Fuck You, Semiotext(e): New York, NY. Edited by Eileen Myles and Liz Kotz
The Paterson Literary Review, Paterson, NJ
1996
Fruit XXX “Soil” issue, New York, NY
1995
13th Moon—a feminist literary magazine, SUNY, Albany, NY
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
SHANNON EBNER lives and works in Los Angeles, CA