Shaun O’Dell
Shaun O’Dell received a BA in Humanities from the New College of California, San Francisco, in 2002 and an MFA from Stanford University in 2004. His work explores the intertwining realities of the human and natural orders. His work has been exhibited widely in the US and internationally. O’Dell is represented by the Halsey/Mckay Gallery in Brooklyn and East Hampton NY and by Inman Gallery in Houston TX. He has won numerous awards and honors including the Tournesol Award (2009, Headlands Center for the Arts), Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship (2006, SF Art Institute), Artadia Award (2005, San Francisco) and The Fleishhacker Foundation Award in 2002. His work is included in a number of permanent collections, including the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Bronx Museum of Arts, the de Young Museum, Berkeley Art Museum and the DESTE Foundation of Contemporary Art in Athens Greece. O’Dell lives and works in San Francisco.
Born 11.08.68
Beeville, Texas
Education
Stanford University, MFA
Selected Solo Shows
06.24 “An Object Coming From Elsewhere“ Halsey/McKay, East Hampton NY
01.22 “A Foot Between The Screens Of The Unforescene“ Inman Gallery, Houston TX
09.19 “Old Jam“, Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC
08.18 Volcano Museum, Stykkishholmur, Iceland
11.17 “More Love,“ Inman Gallery, Houston
6.16 “M.Waterfall“ Halsey/McKay, East Hampton, NY
5.15 “Doubled“ Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
12.14 “By Cloud” Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC
05.14 “Mourning Air,” Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
12.12 Jack Hanley Gallery, NYC
12.12 Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC
05.11 “Feeling Easy Feelings,” Kerry Inman Gallery Houston, Texas
03.10 “Loomings,” Susan Inglett, NYC
01.09 “Sound From A Rock,” Jack Hanley Gallery, SF
02.08 “We Remember The Sun,” Susan Inglett Gallery New York
06.07 PORTAL OH! PORTAL: James Harris Gallery, Seattle
01.07 Inman Gallery, “Road Ghosts Coming; Landscapes of Blood: From “SKULL PILE TO THE SUN”, Houston, Texas
07.06 “Skull Pile To The Sun”, Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles
01.05 SF MOMA, SECA Award Show, SF
09.04 “Last Stand of the Invisible Hand”, James Harris Gallery, Seattle
01.04 “Mythoprismatic Extraction Stratigraphy from the Confluence at Titusville Deluge”, Jack Hanley Galllery, SF
03.02 "Errand Projections from Pilgrim Glacier", Southern Exposure Gallery, SF
03.01 "The Psychic Cinema Archives", Gallery 16, SF
03.01 New Image Arts, Los Angeles
11.00 Luggage Store Gallery, SF
06.99 ESP, SF
Selected Group Exhibitions
O5.24 NADA ART FAIR NYC
08.2023- 02. 2024, Contested Landscapes, Museum of Fine Arts Houston
04.23 Dallas Art Fair
11.22 More Than What My Hands Can Hold, Gallery 16, San Francisco
9.22 Keeping Things Whole, North Loop, Williamstown
9.22 Armory Show, New York
6.22 Print Houston Biennial 2022. Houston, Texas
2.22 Pressing Innovation, Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin
5.21 10 YEARS, Halsey/McKay November 2021
10.20 The deYoung Open, deYoung Museum San Francisco CA
06.19 Harvey Milk Terminal 1, San Francisco International Airport
11.18 “Glade Hits“ Halsey/McKay November 2018
2.18 Mildred Lane Kemper Museum, Island Press: Recent Prints
2.18 “Re-Flex Arc“ The Front, New Orleans
3.17 “What Lies Beneath“ Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas
1.17 “Esho Funi“ Gallery 16, San Francisco
02.14 “The Possible” Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
06.12 dOCUMENTA(13), Kassel, Germany
05.12 “In Protest“ Berkeley Art Museum
03.12 “50 Years of Bay Area Art,“ San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art
10.11 FRIEZE Art Fair, Jack Hanley Gallery
10.10 “Go West,“ Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City
04.10 “The Economy Of The Gift,” AFoundation, Liverpool
03.09 “Salt Peanuts“ Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas
06.08 “We Remember The Sun”, Walter and Mc Bean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute
05.08 “Making History”, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York
01.07 “Euphorion”, Pierogi, Leipzig
11.06 “How To Build A Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later”, Curated by Will Bradley, Wattis Institute, SF
09.06 Some Translations by Harrell Fletcher (Participation in Harrell Fletcher project) In Situ, Paris
09.06 “The Searchers”, White Box, NYC
06.06 Artadia Award Show, Wattis Institute, SF
10.05 Consume(d): Acts of Creative and Critical Resistance, Georgian Trade Center, Tiblisi, Georgia
09.05 “Mental Maps”, Dorsky Curatorial Program, Queens NY
07.05 “Little Odyssey’s”, Group Show at Marianne Boesky Gallery, NYC
06.05 Berkeley Art Museum, Fleishhacker Award Show
09.04 “First Happiness” University of New York, Albany NY
05:04 “Majority Whip”, White Box, NY
03.04 Storyline, New Langton Arts, SF
01.04 Gallerie Anne deville Poix, Paris
09.03 “Now Is Over” New Image Art, Los Angeles
02.03 New Acquisitions Show, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
01.03 International Paper, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
10.02 Bay Area Now, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF
07.02 When Will I Ever Be Simple Again, Jack Hanley Gallery, SF
06.02 Fast Forward II, UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
09.01 "Marked" Bay Area Drawing at Hunter College, New York City
Upcoming Shows
INMAN GALLERY January 2026
Releases
Spring 2024, Cartophantasms Between The Screens Forescene, Print series with ISLAND PRESS at the Sam Fox School of Art and Design, Washington University of ST.Louis
Awards
Tournesol Award, Headlands Center For The Arts, 2009
Diebenkorn Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institue, 2006
Artadia Fund for Art, 2006
SECA Award, 2005
Murphy Fellowship, 2003
Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship, 2002
Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Award, 2002
Bay Gaurdian "Goldie" for outstanding local artist, 2001
Residencies
Arthur L. and Sheila Prensky Visiting Artist Island Press, Washington University, St Louis, 2022
Marjorie and Joseph Rubenson Endowment for Art and Science at Volcan Mountain, 2018
Arthur L. and Shiela Prensky Visiting Artist Island Press, Washington University, St Louis, 2013
Tournesol Award and Residency, 2009
Marin Headlands Center for the Arts, Project Studio, 2002
Collections
Whitney Museum Of American Art, New York
New York Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
M.H. deYoung Memorial Museum, San Francisco
UC Berkeley Museum, Berkeley
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin
Kadist Foundation
DESTE Foundation
Bronx Museum
FOR-SITE Foundation, Nevada City, California
Progressive Insurance Collection, Chicago
JPMorgan Chase Collection, New York
Microsoft, Seattle
UCSF, San Francisco
San Francisco Arts Commission SFO Museum Collection, San Francisco
Selected Bibliography
2022, Pressing Innovation, University of Wisconsin Press and Chazen Museum of Art
2021, Platinotype: Making Photographs in Platinum and Palladium with the Contemporary Printing-out Process, Routledge; 2021 by Pradip Malde and Dr. Mike Ware
2018, The Weekender
2018, The Rekjavik Grapevine
2018, Stykkishólmur Pósturinn
2016, New York Times
2016, Hamptons Monthly
2015, Modern Painters, Francesca Sonara
2015, KQED Arts, Sarah Hotchkiss
2015, Art Practical, “Doubled,“ Leora Lutz
2014, Village Voice, “By Cloud, Shaun O'Dell“
2013, Wall Street Journal, “Coloring In Lines Of Humanity,” Peter Plagens
2013, The New Yorker, “Shaun O’Dell,” Staff
2011, Paradigm Shifts: Walter and McBean Galleries Exhibitions and Public Programs, San Francisco Art Institute (2006-2011) Hou Hanru
2011, Fifty Years Of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards, SFMOMA
Oct.-Nov. 2011 ARTnews
June 3, 2011 Houston Chronicle
Summer 2010, BOOKFORUM
April 2010, ARTFORUM
2010, From Here to There: A Curious Collection from the Hand Drawn Map Association, Princeton Architectural Press, 2010
April 2009, Houston Chronicle
March 2009, ARTFORUM
July/August 2007 ARTonpaper
March 2007, Frieze, “How To Build A Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later”
Jan/ Feb 2007 Art Week, “How To Build A Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later”
Aug. 2006, Artnet, L.A. Confidential
Nov/Dec. 2005: ARTonpaper, “The Year in Prints”
Oct/Nov. 2005, Art Papers, San Francisco, Abraham Orden
August 19, 2005: New York Times, "Little Odysseys" by Roberta Smith
May/June 2005: art on Paper, "New Drawings in San Francisco" by Glen Helfand
May 10, 2005: SF Gate, "2004 SECA Award" by Alison Bing
February 23, 2005: SF Weekly, "Draw You In: Four Bay Area Artists Seek Connection" by Adrienne Gagnon
February 7, 2005: artnet.com, "San Francisco Days" by Abraham Orden
September 24, 2004: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, "Shaun O’Dell's 'Last Stand' Drawings Sound a Wake-up Call" by Judy Wagonfeld
January 16, 2004: SFGate, "Shaun O’Dell" by Alison Bing
Public Lecture Series
Thompson Gallery Lecture San José State University, February 2, 2021. Tuesday Night Lecture Series
The Possible, Berkeley Art Museum, March 2014, John Corbett and Alison Gopnik
The New New Masses Series On Art And Politics, San Francisco Art Institute, Fall 2007
Featured Speakers for The New New Masses Series I, Amy Balkin, Snehal Shingavi, Will Bradley, Jordan Kantor, Harrell Fletcher, RIGO23, Ken Worthy, Beth Mangini
Grants
Travel Grant, San José State University, 2024
Artistic Excellence Programming Grant for Technologies of Print - Geographies of Meaning: Letterpress Workshop and
Symposium, Funded by Artistic Excellence
Programming Grant SJSU, February 21, 2020 - February 19, 2021
Student Collaborations
The SOMETHING, 2008-2014