Shaun O’Dell
Shaun O’Dell makes drawings, videos, music and sometimes sculpture. His work explores the intertwining realities of the human and natural orders. O’Dell has exhibited his work at many venues, including the Jack Hanley Gallery in San Francisco and Los Angeles, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, UCLA Hammer Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Whitebox in New York, and the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, M.H. deYoung Memorial Museum and the Berkeley Art Museum. O’Dell received his MFA from Stanford University. He is the recipient of the 2006 Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship from the San Francisco Art Institute, 2005 Artadia Award, 2004 SECA Award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and a 2002 Fleishhacker Foundation Award. He is currently teaching at University of California, Berkeley and California College of the Arts, and is the co-organizer of The New New Masses, a lecture series on Art and Politics.
Born 11.08.68
Beeville, Texas
Education:
Stanford University, MFA
New College of California, BA Humanities
Selected Solo Shows:
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 San Francisco SF MOMA, SECA Award Show, San Francisco
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, San Francisco
03.02 "Errand Projections from Pilgrim Glacier", Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco
03.01 "The Psychic Cinema Archives", Gallery 16, San Francisco
03.01 New Image Arts, Los Angeles
11.00 Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco
06.99 ESP, San Francisco
Selected Group Exhibitions:
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, San Francisco
09.06 Some Translations by Harrell Fletcher (Participation in Harrell Fletcher project) In Situ, Paris
09.06 “The Searchers”, White Box, New York City
06.06 Artadia Award Show, Wattis Institute, San Francisco
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, New York City
06.05 Berkeley Art Museum, Fleishhacker Award Show, Berkeley
09.04 “First Happiness” University of New York, Albany NY
05:04 “Majority Whip”, White Box, NY
03.04 Storyline, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
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, San Francisco
07.02 When Will I Ever Be Simple Again, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
06.02 Fast Forward II, UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley
09.01 "Marked" Bay Area Drawing at Hunter College, New York City
Upcoming Shows:
02.08 Susan Inglett Gallery, New York
07.08 Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
Selected Bibliography:
July/August 2007 Art on Paper
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: Art on Paper, “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: San Francisco Gate, "2004 SECA Award" by Alison Bing
February 23, 2005: San Francisco 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: San FranciscoGate, "Shaun O’Dell" by Alison Bing
Awards:
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:
Marin Headlands Center for the Arts, Project Studio 2002
Collections:
Museum of Modern Art, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
M.H. deYoung Memorial Museum, San Francisco
Progressive Insurance Collection, Chicago
JPMorgan Chase Collection, New York
Microsoft, Seattle
University of California, San Francisco