Shannon Ebner (b. 1971, New Jersey) lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work encompasses photography, video, sculpture and installation. Her works frequently explore the nature of writing and its meaning, with the work acting as a form of writing, and the writing, in turn, a way of seeing. Her solo exhibition A Public Character is currently on view at ICA Miami. Curated by Alex Gartenfeld, the exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with texts by Laura Hoptman, Bruce Hainley and Eileen Myles. Recent solo exhibitions include Auto Body Collision, Fondazione Memmo Arte Contemporanea, Rome; a year long collaborative project with David Reinfurt called A Hudson Yard commissioned by Friends of the High Line, New York, NY, 2015; and those at the Hammer Museum, 2011, and MoMA PS1, 2007. Group exhibitions include Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2015; Over you / you, 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts Ljubljana, Ljubljana, 2015; Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language, MoMA, New York, 2012, ILLUMInations, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, 2011), The Spectacular of Vernacular, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2011, 6th Berlin Biennale of contemporary Art, Berlin (2010), and the Whitney Biennial, New York (2008). In 2009, Ebner's book The Sun as Error, was published by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in co-operation with Dexter Sinister. Her book Auto Body Collision was recently published by the Carnegie Museum, with texts by Tina Kukielski, Alex Klein and Mark Owens. Her publication, STRIKE, is available from Mousse Publishing with texts by Barbara Casavecchia and Alessandro Giammei.
