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. de Young 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 represented by Inman Gallery, Houston.
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Born 1968 in Beeville, Texas.
Lives and works in San Francisco, California.
EDUCATION
2004 M.F.A. Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
2002 B.A. Humanities, New College of California, San Francisco, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017
More Love, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
2016
M. Waters, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2015
Shaun O’Dell: Doubled, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
Galerie Anne De Ville Poix, Paris, France
2014
By Cloud, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, New York
Mourning Air, Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas
2012
Ruined, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, New York
Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, New York
2011
Feeling Easy Feelings, Kerry Inman Gallery Houston, Texas
2010
Loomings, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
2008
Sound From A Rock, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Shaun O'Dell: We Remember the Sun, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
2007
PORTAL OH! PORTAL , James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
Road Ghosts Coming, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
2006
Skull Pile to the Sun, Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Shaun O'Dell, Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005
SECA Award Show, SF MOMA, San Francisco, CA
2004
Mythoprismatic Extraction Stratigraphy from the Confluence at Titusville Deluge, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Last Stand of the Invisible Hand, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
2002
Errand Projections from Pilgrim Glacier, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001
The Psychic Cinema Archives, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
New Image Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2000
Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999
ESP, San Francisco, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
Esho Funi, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
What Lies Beneath, Old Jail Art Center, Albany, TX
2014
The Possible, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California
2012
dOCUMENTA(13), Kassel, Germany
In Protest, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California
50 Years of Bay Area Art, San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
ARIS MOORE, LUCAS GROGAN, SHAUN ODELL, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY
2010
FINAL SAN FRANCISCO SHOW, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Economy Of The Gift, AFoundation, Liverpool, England
2009
THE SOMETHING (PERFORMANCE), Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Salt Peanuts, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
2008
We Remember the Sun, Walter and McBean Galleries - San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Making History, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY
2007
In the Fullness of Time: Celebrating Twenty Years, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA
Euphorion, Pierogi, Leipzig, Germany
2006
How To Build A Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later, Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA
The Searchers, White Box, New York City, NY
Artadia Award Show, Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA
2005
SECA Award Show, SF MOMA, San Francisco, CA
Consume(d): Acts of Creative and Critical Resistance, Georgian Trade Center, Tiblisi, Georgia
Mental Maps, Dorsky Curatorial Program, Queens, NY
Little Odyssey’s, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York City, NY
Fleishhacker Award Show, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
2004
First Happiness, University of New York, Albany, NY
Majority Whip, White Box, New York, NY
Storyline, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
2003
Now Is Over, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA
New Acquisitions Show, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
International Paper, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2002
How Will I Ever Be Simple Again, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
Bay Area Now, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Fast Forward II, UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
2001
Marked, Bay Area Drawing at Hunter College, New York City, NY
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2013
Island Press, Washington University, St Louis, MO
2009
Tournesol Award and Residency, Sausalito, CA
Tournesol Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin, CA
2006
Diebenkorn Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institue, San Francisco, CA
Artadia Fund for Art, San Francisco, CA
2005
SECA Award, San Francisco, CA
2003
Murphy Fellowship
2002
Marin Headlands Center for the Arts, Project Studio, Sausalito, CA
Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship, San Francisco, CA
Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Award, San Francisco, CA
2001
Bay Gaurdian "Goldie" for outstanding local artist, San Francisco, CA
Shaun O’Dell
Heed It Well, Ye Pantheists (Blues)
2010
Color hardground etching
Twin Rocker paper
Image Size: 11" x 9"
Paper Size: 20" x 15"
Edition of 40
Shaun O’Dell
Heed It Well, Ye Pantheists (Blues and Gold)
2010
Color hardground etching.
Twin Rocker paper
Image Size: 11" x 9"
Paper Size: 20" x 15"
Edition of 40
Shaun O’Dell
Plunged Into It
2010
Color aquatint and spitbite aquatint with softground and hardground etching.
Somerset white paper
Image Size: 31" x 24"
Paper Size: 31" x 24"
Edition of 40
Shaun O’Dell
Ringing Out of, Leaping Out of Light
2010
Color aquatint and spitbite aquatint with softground and hardground etching.
Somerset white paper
Image Size: 31" x 24"
Paper Size: 31" x 24"
Edition of 40
Shaun O’Dell
We Do Not Advance Through Fixed Gradiations
2010
Color aquatint and spitbite aquatint with softground and hardground etching.
Somerset white paper
Image Size: 31" x 24"
Paper Size: 31" x 24"
Edition of 40
Shaun O’Dell
Beyond When the Golden Portal Can Come
2005
Color sugarlift aquatint with hardground and softground etching.
Image Size: 26" x 23"
Paper Size: 34½" x 29½"
Edition of 25
Shaun O’Dell
Cipher Awakening At the Horizon of Denial
2005
Color aquatint with hardground etching.
Image Size: 26" x 23"
Paper Size: 34½" x 29½"
Edition of 25
Shaun O’Dell
Ghost Extraction Dialogue For the Followers of Blood
2005
Color aquatint
with hardground etching.
Image size 28¼" x 23"
Paper size 36¾" x 29½"
Edition of 25
Shaun O’Dell
Of the Prairie Chimbley's Final Bones
2005
Color aquatint
with hardground etching.
Image size 12" x 10"
Paper size 19" x 16"
Edition of 25
Shaun O’Dell
Wilderness Scene
2005
Color aquatint
with hardground etching.
Image size 12" x 10"
Paper size 19" x 16"
Edition of 25