:Shannon Bool
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Shannon Bool (born 1972) is a Canadian artist. Bool lives and works in Berlin.{{Cite web | url=https://www.saatchigallery.com/artists/shannon_bool.htm |title = Shannon Bool – Artist's Profile – the Saatchi Gallery| date=3 February 2023 }}
Education
Bool was born in 1972 in Comox, British Columbia.{{Cite web | url=https://www.museejoliette.org/en/expositions/touring-shannon-bool-the-shape-of-obus/ | title=Touring — Shannon Bool. The Shape of Obus}} She received a Master's degree from the Städelschule, Frankfurt.{{Cite web | url=https://canadianart.ca/features/shannon-bool-surface-matters/ |title = Surface Matters: Shannon Bool Makes Ornament Contemporary}}
Career
In 2005, her work was featured in Phaidon's inaugural tome on "New Perspectives in Drawing" Vitamin D. Compiled in its pages were a number of productions by the artist that hinted at a diverse approach to drawing through a combination of processes and materials including cut paper, graphite and ink collaged and taped together; a wallpaper collage with pencil, crayon and oil paint; a pencil and gouache wall work combined with a laminate sculpture; drawings on regular paper, antique paper acrylics and Chinese inks. The entry on Bool in the Vitamin D catalogue remarked: "Her works borrow and reproduce eclectic source material, including ornamental designs and patterns, textile and wallpaper samples, found postcards and photographs, advertising images from the 1920s and 30s, illustrations from fairy-tale books, and details from art-historical paintings. Dominic Eichler "Shannon Bool"in Emma Dexter, ed., Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing(London: Phaidon, 2005, 30
In 2013, Bool was awarded the Villa Romana Prize.{{Cite web | url=https://canadianart.ca/features/shannon-bool-surface-matters/ | title=Surface Matters: Shannon Bool Makes Ornament Contemporary | access-date=2019-05-20 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904224902/http://canadianart.ca/features/shannon-bool-surface-matters/ | archive-date=2017-09-04 | url-status=live }} In 2019, she was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Photography Award.{{Cite web | url=https://www.photolife.com/tag/shannon-bool/ |title = Shannon Bool | Photo Life}}
Solo exhibitions
- 2019: Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris.{{Cite web | url=https://centred.ca/shannon-bool-promiscuous-rooms/ |title = Shannon Bool – Promiscuous Rooms | Art Review|date = 2019-04-09}}
- 2019: Kunstverein Braunschweig{{Cite journal | url=https://frieze.com/article/not-so-modern-suppressed-misogyny-modernist-architecture |title = Not So Modern: The Suppressed Misogyny of Modernist Architecture|journal = Frieze|date = 12 November 2019|issue = 208|last1 = Bukuts|first1 = Carina}}
- 2018: {{ill|Musée d'art de Joliette|fr}}, Joliette, Quebec.{{Cite web | url=https://www.museejoliette.org/en/expositions/shannon_bool/ | title=Shannon Bool. The Shape of Obus | access-date=2019-07-07 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190707032219/https://www.museejoliette.org/en/expositions/shannon_bool/ | archive-date=2019-07-07 | url-status=live }}
- 2018: Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto.{{Cite web | url=https://canadianart.ca/reviews/shannon-bool-2/ |title = Shannon Bool}}
- 2014: Pavillon social Kunstverein, Lucca, Italy.{{cite web |last1=Shaughnessy |first1=Jonathan |title=Acquisition Proposal for Shannon Bool's Michelangelo's Place,accession #46429, Curatorial File, National Gallery of Canada |url=https://www.gallery.ca/sites/default/files/upload/library/shannon_bool_bio_e.pdf |website=gallery.ca |publisher=National gallery of Canada |accessdate=2 June 2020}}
- 2013: Galerie Kadel Willborn, Dusseldorf, Germany.
- 2012: Galerie Kadel Willborn, Karlsruhe, Germany.
- 2011: Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany.{{Cite web | url=http://artdaily.com/news/42870/Canadian-Artist-Shannon-Bool-s-Most-Important-Sources-of-Inspiration-at-Gesellschaft-f-r-Aktuelle-Kunst#.XOI6VaZ7kWo | title=Canadian Artist Shannon Bool's Most Important Sources of Inspiration at Gesellschaft fur Aktuelle Kunst}}
- 2001: Bonner Kunstverein, Berlin.{{Cite web | url=http://www.bonner-kunstverein.de/en/exhibition/shannon-bool-the-inverted-harem-ii/ |title = Bonner Kunstverein » Shannon Bool: The Inverted Harem II}}
Collections
Her work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada,{{Cite web | url=https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/shannon-bool | title=Shannon Bool | access-date=2019-05-20 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180115124136/https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/shannon-bool | archive-date=2018-01-15 | url-status=live }} the Metropolitan Museum of Art{{cite web | url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/690444 | title=Shannon Bool | Nadja }}{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P6CPDQAAQBAJ&q=Shannon+Bool&pg=PA93 | title=Recent Acquisitions a Selection 2014–2016| last1=Art| first1=The Metropolitan Museum of| date=2016-11-09}} and the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal.{{Cite web | url=https://macm.org/en/news/acquisition-of-a-work-by-shannon-bool/ | title=Acquisition of a work by Shannon Bool thanks to the bequest of Paule Poirier, a visionary patron | access-date=2019-05-20 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181208081414/https://macm.org/en/news/acquisition-of-a-work-by-shannon-bool/ | archive-date=2018-12-08 | url-status=live }}
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