Shannon Ebner

SHANNON EBNER

CV

b. 1971, Englewood, New Jersey

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

EDUCATION

2000 MFA, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT

1993 BA, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011

Dia Art Foundation, Artist Web Project, New York, NY

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

2011

“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

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

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York