Shannon Bool
1972 born in Canada, lives and works in Berlin

1996 BA, with distinction, in English Literature at the University of Victoria
From 1998 till 2000 Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver
2001 Cooper Union, New York
From 2001 till 2004 Staedelschule, Frankfurt a.M

Awards:
2004
Ernst and Young Prize, Staedelschule Frankfurt
Frankfurter Künstlerhilfe Stipendium
2005
Award for Graduates Staedelschule Frankfurt
2006
Schloß Bleckede
2007
Kunstfonds Bonn
2008
School of Art - RMIT University, Artist in Residency, Melbourne
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2008/09
Visiting Professor at Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe
Portfolio of Shannon Bool
Exhibitions with Iris Kadel:
2009 You always, always, always, do that. - Yes. You say that all the time
Exhibitions with Iris Kadel:
2009 Major Arcana
Exhibitions with Iris Kadel:
2006 Elektra
Exhibitions with Iris Kadel:
2004 It takes a year to make a day
Solo exhibitions
2010 CRAC Alsace, / Musée d´Art Moderne, Altkirch, FR
GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, DE
2009 "Major Arcana", Galerie Iris Kadel, Karlsruhe, DE
2008 RMIT Project Space, Melbourne, AU
2007 Samsa, Berlin, DE
2006 Art Statement, Art Basel 37, CH
"Elektra", Galerie Iris Kadel, Karlsruhe, DE
2005 Rohrstrasse 51, curated by Regina Barunke, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Studio Giovanna Sarti, Frankfurt, DE
2004 "Let my vinyl lick your finger" (with Dani Gal), Pavillion am Main, Frankfurt am Main, DE
"Waxing the Sublime", schnittraum, Köln, DE
"It takes a year to make a day", Galerie Iris Kadel, Karlsruhe, DE
2003 "fresh and upcoming", Frankfurter Kunstverein, DE
2002 "Wet Buildings" (with Edwin Schaeffer), Fahrradhalle Offenbach, DE
Group exhibitions
2010 "A THING IS A THING IN A WHOLE WHICH IT'S NOT", Temporary Gallery Cologne, Köln, DE
"something left undone", Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva, SW
2009 "7 x 14" (together with Alex Mueller), Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, DE
"Tactical Support, Curator's Choice", Gallery Tracy Williams, New York, US
CACP Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, FR
"Was sonst soll ich lieben, wenn nicht das Rätsel?", Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg, Germany
"Speculations on the End of Interieur", Vera Cortes Art Agency, Lisbon, PT
"You always, always, always do that. – Yes. You say that all the time.", Galerie Iris Kadel, Karlsruhe, DE
2008 "Diskurs im Gruenen - Stipendiaten Kuenstlerstaette Schloss Bleckede", Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, DE
"Zidanes Melancholie", Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, DE
"Legend", Departmental Domain Chamarande, FR
"The Golden Record", Collective Gallery, Edingburgh, GB
Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, DE
"SPHINXX", Modern Art, London, GB
2007 "STUFF", International Contemporary Art from the Collection of Burt Aaron, US
"Rock Paper Scissors", Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, DE
"No Room for the Groom - An Exhibition with Douglas Sirk", Herald St., London, UK
"Wandauftrag - Künstler aus Berlin II", Erholungshaus Bayer, Leverkusen, DE
"Drawing on Sculpture: Graphic Interventions on the Photographic Surface", Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, GB
"The New Domestic Landscape" (curated by Caroline Nathusius), kjubh, Cologne, DE
2006 "Tauschgeschaeft", Galerie Eva Winkler, Frankfurt am Main, DE
"Carbonic Anhydride", Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, DE
"Spiralen der Erinnerung", Kunstverein in Hamburg, DE
"Make Your Move", Projects Arts Centre, Dublin, IRL
"Cooling out - on the paradox of feminism", Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, IRL
2005 "Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Jubliäumsausstellung", Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, DE
"Academy Remix", Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, DE
"Liquid Soft Lightning Touch", Doggerfisher Gallery, Edinburgh, GB
2004 c/o Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, DE
Gravenhurst Contemporary Art Center, GB
"The Savoy", Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, GB
"The Studio", Karin Guenther, Nina Borgmann Gallery, Hamburg, DE
"Geneologies of Glamour", Migros Museum, Zürich, CH
2003 "Heute", Hessisches Ministerium für Kunst und Wissenschaften, Wiesbaden, DE
Publications
2009
7 x 14, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
2007
Rosemary Heather: "Ornament as Content: An Interview with Shannon Bool", cmagazine 92, Winter, p 11-15.
2006
Uta M. Reindl: "Shannon Bool", Artist Kunstmagazin, no 68, p 34-39.
Klaus Heid: "Shannon Bool - Im Sog der kulturellen Subtexte", Regioartline Kunstmagazin, no 6/7, p 18.
2005
Vanessa Joan Müller: "Watchlist: Shannon Bool", Monopol, no.6, p 42.
Emma Dexter: "Vitamin D", Phaidon Press, New York.
2004
Tom Holert & Heike Munder: "Genealogies of Glamour", Migros Museum for Contemporary Art, Odermatt.
Lutz Becker & Sabine Oelze: "Shannon Bool", Köln.
Magdalena Kröner: "Die blaue Blume haut ins Auge", Die Tageszeitung, April 27th.
Peter Abs & Oliver Tepel: "Hallo Waende", Spex, April, p 75.
Uta M. Reindl: "Eitle Frauen und attraktive Anti-Helden", Kölner Stadtanzeiger, no. 69.
Anette Freundenburger: "Anderer Raeume", Cologne City Review, February.
2003
Christoph Schütte: "Feuer unterm Dach", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April.
Christoph Schütte: "Die Cowboys sind friedlich", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May.














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