| 1971 |
Born Englewood NJ, USA |
| 1993 |
BA, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson NY, USA |
| 2000 | MFA, Yale University, New Haven CT, USA |
| Lives and works in New York NY, USA |
Solo Exhibitions
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Group Exhibitions
| 2022 |
REPEATER, Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street, London, England |
| 2021 |
Disturbances in the Field: Art in the High Desert from Andrea Zittel's A-Z West to High Desert Test Sites, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno NV, USA |
| 2020 |
Vent’anni – Twenty Years, 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Kaufmann Repetto, New York NY, USA |
| 2018 |
A grammar built with rocks, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries, Los Angeles CA, USA Beautiful world, where are you?, Liverpool Biennial 2018, Liverpool, England Something (you can’t see, on the other side, of a wall from this side) casts a shadow, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco CA, USA mark, team (gallery, inc.), New York NY, USA A Page from My Intimate Journal (Part 1), Gordon Robichaux, New York NY, USA A Break in Transmission, Holden Gallery, Manchester, England |
| 2017 |
The Electric Comma, Palazzo delle Zattere, Venice, Italy, organised by The V-A-C Foundation and Kadist ICA Collection: New Acquisitions, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston MA, USA |
| 2016 |
L.A. Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists, LACMA Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, USA Evolutionary Travels, Fundación Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina California and the West: Photography from the Campaign for Art, SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA, USA Répétition, Fondation Boghossian – Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium; the 31st Graphic Arts Biennial Ljubljana, Ljubjana, Slovenia Shannon Ebner, K.R.M. Mooney and Will Rogan, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco CA, USA Of Echo Systems, Altman Siegel, San Francisco CA, USA Wasteland. New Art from Los Angeles, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac and Mona Bismarck American Center, Paris, France, curated by Shamim M. Momin and The Los Angeles Nomadic Division Sighs Trapped by Liars – Language in Art, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria Signal to Noise, Simon Preston Gallery, New York NY, USA |
| 2015 |
Transcending Material: ICA Collection, ICAInstitute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston MA, USA All Watched Over, James Cohan Gallery, New York NY, USA, curated by Tina Kukielski Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, Guggenheim Museum, New York NY, USA Over you / you, 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia Die Marmory Show II: Impoverishment, Deborah Schamoni Galerie, Munich, Germany Images That Speak, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver BC, Canada |
| 2014 |
[Con]text, UMFA Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City UT, USA Fiona Banner selects from the V-A-C collection: Stamp Out Photographie, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England New Dawn, Silberkuppe, Berlin, Germany |
| 2013 |
Industrial Worlds, MAST Foundation, Bologna, Italy Ten Years, Wallspace, New York NY, USA Selections from the collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Riverview School, East Sandwich MA, USA, curated by Kelly Taxter August: Shannon Ebner, Adam Putnam, Rachelle Sawatsky, Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna, Austria, curated by Tyler Coburn Who Runs May Read, South London Gallery, London, England New in the Collection, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel,curated by Talia Amar Transmissions, Altman Siegel, San Francisco CA, USA |
| 2012 |
Things, Words and Consequences, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia Deagu Photo Biennial Korea, Daegu, South Korea Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA MARCH, Sadie Coles HQ, South Audley Street, London, England Affective Turns?, Pepin Moore, Los Angeles CA, USA Lost Line: Selections from the Permanent Collection, LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2011 |
Vision is Elastic. Thought is Elastic., Murray Guy, New York NY, USA The Artist Theatre Program, REDCAT, Los Angeles CA, USA How Soon is Now, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia The Air We Breathe, SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA, USA September 11, MoMA PS1, Long Island City NY, USA Glee, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles CA, USA Illuminations, 54th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy The Spectacular of Vernacular, Walker Museum of Art, Minneapolis MN, USA The Smithson Effect, UMFA Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City UT, USA |
| 2010 |
Pleated Blinds, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel all we ever wanted was everything, EFA Project Space, New York NY, USA At Home / Not At Home – Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, CCS Center for Curatorial Studies Bard, Hessel Museum of Art, Annabelle-on-Hudson NY, USA Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award 2010, Arles, France 6th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany The Page, Kimmerich, New York NY, USA Papier Photo, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France |
| 2009 |
Character Generator, Eleven Rivington, New York NY, USA Time - Life Part II, Taxter & Spengemann, New York NY, USA Sundown, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium A Wild Party and a New Road, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco CA, USA Saints and Sinners, The Rose Art Museum, Waltham MA, USA |
| 2008 |
Catawampus (for H.D.), Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis MN, USA The World Is All That Is The Case, Hudson Franklin, New York NY, USA Untitled (Vicarious), Gagosian, New York NY, USA History Keeps Me Awake at Night: A Genealogy of Wojnarowicz, P.P.O.W, New York NY, USA Imaginary Thing, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen CO, USA Not So Subtle Subtitle, Casey Kaplan, New York NY, USA 2008 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA |
| 2007 |
Read Me! Text in Art, The Armory Center for Arts, Pasadena CA, USA Looking Back, White Columns Annual, New York NY, USA Catawampus (for H.D.), Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park IL, USA I am Eyebeam, Gallery 400, UIC University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL, USA A New Reality: Black-and-White Photography in Contemporary Art, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick NJ, USA Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium, CCS Center for Curatorial Studies Bard, Hessel Museum of Art, Annabelle-on-Hudson NY, USA Learn to Read, Tate Modern, London, England Last Attraction Next Exit, Max Wigram Gallery, London, England Shared Women, LACE Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2006 |
Interventions, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA Cataract, Wallspace, New York NY, USA The California Biennial, OCMA Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County CA, USA Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium, Serpentine Gallery, London, England Shifting Topologies, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst MA, USA Intersections: Atlanta Collects Photography, High Museum of Art, Atlanta GA, USA Locale, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA Le Retour de la Colonne Durutti, Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany Trace, The Whitney Museum at Altria, New York NY, USA Too Much Love, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA Chaos or Control, UCLA School of Architecture Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA Aantekeningen, Expodium, Utrecht, The Netherlands Psychogeographies, Glendale College of Art Gallery, Glendale CA, USA |
| 2005 |
Monuments for the America, White Columns, New York NY, USA The Plain of Heaven, for Creative Time, New York NY, USA Talk to the Land, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York NY, USA Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway Sugartown, Participant Inc. and Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York NY, USA Post No Bills, White Columns, New York NY, USA Wordplay, Julie Saul Gallery, New York NY, USA Monuments for America, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco CA, USA Response, Morlan Art Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington KY, USA The Picture is the Problem, The Pelham Art Center, Pelham NY, USA Manufactured Self, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago IL, USA |
| 2004 |
High Desert Test Site 4, High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree CA, USA Strange Animal, LACE Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles CA, USA Itineraries, Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2003 |
High Desert Test Site 3, High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree CA, USA Sea, Jen Bekman, New York NY, USA |
| 2002 |
Anti-Form, New Photographic Work from Los Angeles, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City MO, USA Project Room exhibition, Lemonsky: projects + editions, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2000 | Graduate Thesis Exhibition, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven CT, USA |
| 1998 |
Illegal Performance (an experimental-text-based performance), The Judson Church, New York NY, USA Pedestrian Union, St. Mark’s Poetry Project, New York NY, USA |
Projects/Commissions
| 2012 | Language is Wild, Artist Web Project, Dia Art Foundation, New York NY, USA |
| 2010 | with Dexter Sinister, An Octopus in Plan View, Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair, London, England |
| 2009 | Shannon Ebner: The Sun as Error, LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA, USA |
Curatorial
| 2017 | Soil Erosion, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco CA, USA |
| 2010 |
They Knew What They Wanted, Altman Siegel, San Francisco CA, USA, curated by Shannon Ebner |
| 2007 |
Blow Both of Us, Participant, Inc., New York NY, USA, curated by Shannon Ebner & Adam Putnam |
Talks
| 2018 | Shannon Ebner and Leslie Hewitt in conversation, Arc Building, Lower Level, E2 Lecture Hall, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY, USA, 14 November |
Public Collections
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NSW Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA, USA ICA Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston MA, USA LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA, USA MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, USA MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA Guggenheim Museums and Foundation, New York NY, USA Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands UMFA Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City UT, USA Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA |