Shannon Ebner

Born in Englewood, New Jersey in 1971. Lives and works in Los Angeles.

 

 

Upcoming solo exhibition

 

2013

 

Sadie Coles, London

 

2014

 

kaufmann repetto, Milan

 

Selected solo exhibitions

 

 

2013

 

A Language of Exposures, Wallspace, New York

2012

 

Language Is Wild, Dia Art Foundation, Artists’ Web Project

 

2011

 

Hammer Museum/LAXART, Los Angeles, curated by Anne Ellegood

 

2010

 

Signal Hill, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco

kaufmann repetto, Milan

 

2009

 

Invisible Language Workshop, Wallspace, New York

 

2007

 

Special Project: Shannon Ebner, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York

The Sun & the Sign, Wallspace, New York

 

2005

 

Dead Democracy Letters, Wallspace, New York

 

2003

 

Margo Victor Presents, Los Angeles

 

Selected group exhibitions

2012

 

Ecstatic Alphabets, MoMa Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated by Laura Hoptaman

 

2011

 

ILLUMInations, 54th Venice Biennale, directed by Bice Curiger

Glee, Blum & Poe, curated by Cecilia Alemanni, Los Angeles

Vision is Elastic. Thought is Elastic, Murray Guy, New York, NY, curated by Moyra Davey and Zoe Leonard

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

 

Prix Fondation Luma, Rencontres de photo d’Arles, Arles, France, curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist

6th Berlin Biennale of contemporary Art, Berlin, curated by Kathrin Rhomberg

Papier Photo, Chez Valentin, Paris, curated by Sophie Berrebi and Frederique Valentin

Pleated Blinds, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel, curated by Ory Dessau

California Dreaming, Arte Portugal, Lisbon

The Page, curated by John Stezaker and Matthew Higgs, Kimmerich, New York, NY

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

Character Generator, Eleven Rivington, New York, curated by Matthew Lyons

Sundown, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium

Saints and Sinners, The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, curated by Laura Hoptman

A Wild Party and a New Road, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco

 

2008

 

Catawampus, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, curated by Amy Granat & Matt Keegan

The World Is All That Is The Case, Hudson Franklin, New York, curated by Arthur Ou

Untitled (Vicarious), Gagosian Gallery, New York

Imaginary Thing, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA, curated by Peter Eleey

History Keeps Me Awake at Night: A Geneology of Wojnarowicz, PPOW, New York

Not So Subtle Subtitle, Casey Kaplan, New York, curated by Matthew Brannon

The 2008 Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, curated by Henrietta Huldisch and Shamim M. Momin

 

2007

 

I am Eyebeam, Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, curated by Melanie Schiff and Lorelei Stewart

Catawampus (for H.D.), Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, USA, curated by Matt Keegan

A New Reality: Black-and-White Photography in Contemporary Art, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, USA

Learn to Read, Tate Modern, London, curated by Vincent Honore and Maeve Polkinhorn

Last Attraction Next Exit, Ridley Road, London, curated by Neville Wakefield

Shared Women, LACE, Los Angeles, curated by Eve Fowler, Emily Roysdon and A.L. Steiner

 

2006

 

Interventions, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles

Psychogeographies, Glendale College of Art Gallery, Glendale, USA

Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millenium, Serpentine Gallery, London, curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Gunnar B. Kvaran, Hans Ulrich Obrist

Cataract, Wallspace, New York

The California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

Intersections: Atlanta Collects Photography, High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Shifting Tropologies, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA, curated by Trevor Richardson

Locale, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, curated by Kris Kuramitsu

Too Much Love, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, curated by Amy Adler

Le Retour de la Colonne Durutti, Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, curated by Gyonata Bonvincini

Trace, The Whitney Museum at Altria, New York, curated by Shamim M. Momin

Chaos or Control, UCLA School of Architecture Gallery, Los Angeles, curated by James Welling

Aantekeningen, Expodium, Utrecht, The Netherlands, curated by Public Holiday Projects

 

2005

 

The Plain of Heaven, New York, curated by Peter Eleey for Creative Time

Talk to the Land, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, curated by Matt Keegan

Response, Morlan Art Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, USA, curated by Matthew Distel

Wordplay, Julie Saul Gallery, New York

Post No Bills, White Columns, New York, curated By Matthew Higgs

Sugartown, Participant Inc., New York

The Picture is the Problem, The Pelham Art Center, Pelham, curated by Walead Beshty

Monuments for America, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco and White Columns, New York, curated by Ralph Rugoff

Manufactured Self, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago

Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millenium, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Gunnar B. Kvaran, Hans Ulrich Obrist (travelling to venues in France and Poland)

 

2004

 

High Desert Test Site 4, Joshua Tree

Strange Animal, LACE, Los Angeles

Itineraries, Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles, curated by Christopher Balaschak,

 

2003

 

High Desert Test Site 3, Joshua Tree

Sea, Jen Bekman, New York, curated by Benjamin Donaldson and Lisa Kereszi

 

2002

 

Anti-Form, New Photographic Work from Los Angeles, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, curated by James Welling

Project Room exhibition, Lemonsky: projects + editions, Los Angeles

 

2000

 

Graduate Thesis Exhibition, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven

 

1998

 

Illegal Performance (an experimental-text-based performance), The Judson Church, New York

Pedestrian Union, St. Mark’s Poetry Project, New York