Shannon Bool

Shannon Bool was born in Comox, Canada and lives and works in Berlin. Bool attended the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, Cooper Union, New York, and graduated from Staedelschule, Frankfurt (2004). Bool was artist in residence at the Villa Romana in Florence, Italy (2013). Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at: Agnes Etherington Art Centre (2020); Kunstverein Braunschweig (2019); The Canadian Cultural Center, Paris (2019); Musée d'art de Joliette, Joliette (2018); Peles Empire, Berlin (2018); Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary (2017) and Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2015). Bool has been included in various group shows at: Sprengel Museum, Hannover (2019), Oakville Galleries, Oakville (2019), National Museum of Germany, Bonn (2018), Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt (2017); White Cube Gallery, London (2017); The National Gallery, Ottawa (2017); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2016) and La Biennale de Montréal (2016). Her work can be found in the collections of the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Lenbachhaus, Munich; The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; The Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto); Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, and numerous private collections.

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Shannon Bool was born in Comox, Canada and lives and works in Berlin. Bool attended the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, Cooper Union, New York, and graduated from Staedelschule, Frankfurt (2004). Bool was artist in residence at the Villa Romana in Florence, Italy (2013). Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at: Agnes Etherington Art Centre (2020); Kunstverein Braunschweig (2019); The Canadian Cultural Center, Paris (2019); Musée d'art de Joliette, Joliette (2018); Peles Empire, Berlin (2018); Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary (2017) and Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2015). Bool has been included in various group shows at: Sprengel Museum, Hannover (2019), Oakville Galleries, Oakville (2019), National Museum of Germany, Bonn (2018), Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt (2017); White Cube Gallery, London (2017); The National Gallery, Ottawa (2017); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2016) and La Biennale de Montréal (2016). Her work can be found in the collections of the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Lenbachhaus, Munich; The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; The Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto); Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, and numerous private collections.

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