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Erin Shirreff
b. 1975, Kelowna, British Columbia
Lives and works in New York City
Education
2005 MFA, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Conn., Sculpture
1998 BFA, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Visual Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Available Light, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa; Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston;
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2013) (catalogue)
Standing Shadows, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
2011 The Locker Plant, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Tex.
Two Buildings, Grimm, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2010 Still, Flat, and Far, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Penn. (brochure)
Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, Chicago, Ill.
2009 Landscapes, Heads, Drapery, and Devils, Lisa Cooley, New York, N.Y.
Selected Recent Group Exhibitions
2012 Science on the back end, Hauser and Wirth, New York, N.Y.
Trieste, Federica Schiavo Gallery, Rome, Italy
The Crystal Chain, curated by Matthew Porter and Hannah Whitaker, Invisible-Exports, N.Y.
Three Evidentiary Claims, curated by Rachel Cook, CCS Bard Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.
Today, Lisa Cooley, New York, N.Y.
Recto/Verso, The Approach, London, U.K.
Le silence. Une fiction, curated by Simone Menegoi, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco (catalogue)
Ruins in Reverse, Room East, New York, N.Y.
2011 A Promise is a Cloud, Public Art Fund, MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Structure and Absence, White Cube, London, U.K.
Look with all your eyes, look, Frith Street Gallery, London, U.K.
Miriam Böhm, Rosy Keyser, Erin Shirreff, Lisa Cooley, New York, N.Y.
Another Victory Over the Sun, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Co.
The Anxiety of Photography, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Co. (catalogue). Traveled to Arthouse at the Jones Center,
Austin, Tex. (Fall 2011)
Tabula Rasa, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
The Promise, curated by Martha Kirszenbaum, Galerie Crèvecoeur, Paris, France
To What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong?, The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario
2010 Which Witch is Which? and/or Summertime, organzied by Ajay Kurian, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, Mo. (catalogue)
Immaterial, Ballroom, Marfa, Tex. (catalogue)
What a Difference a Day Makes, curated by Christopher Eamon, Andreas Grimm, Munich, Germany
S-N-W-O, curated by Anna Gritz, DREI Raum für Gegenwartskunst, Cologne, Germany
The Fifth Genre: Considering the Contemporary Still Life, Galerie Lelong, New York, N.Y.
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y.
Greater New York 2010, MoMA PS1, Queens, N.Y. (catalogue)
Knight's Move, Sculpture Center, Queens, N.Y. (catalogue)
Terminus Ante Queum, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, Ill. (brochure)
David Musgrave and Erin Shirreff, curated by Anthony Huberman, Front Room, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Mo.
2009 Herd Thinner, curated by David Hunt, Charest-Weinberg, Miami, Fla.
To the left of the rising sun, Small A Projects Upstate, Greenwich, N.Y.
I am not so different, curated by Rachel Cook, Art Palace Gallery, Austin, Tex.
Dark Fair, curated by Milwaukee International, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
On From Here (Time Pyramid), Guild & Greyshkul, New York, N.Y.
Broken Thorn Sweet Blackberry, curated by Sima Familant, Sikkema Jenkins, New York, N.Y.
2008 Creswell Crags, Lisa Cooley, New York, N.Y.
Some Thing Else, curated by Simone Subal, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, N.Y.
Selected Bibliography
2012 Holmes, Pernilla. "New York, New Wave." Financial Times. 7 April 2012.
Barliant, Claire. "Photography and the Objet Manqué." Art in America. March 2012: 108-17.
2011 MacDonell, Nancy. "Insider: Collector's Edition." Elle. December 2011: 132.
Burnett, Craig. "Parts of a Stone." Structure & Absence. Exhibition catalogue. London: White Cube, 2011.
Wullschlager, Jackie. "Visual Arts" 'Structure and Absence'." Financial Times. 13 October 2011: 15.
Ward, Ossian. "Art Reviews: 'Look With All Your Eyes, Look'." Time Out London. 26 August 2011.
Kurian, Ajay. Which Which is Which and/or Summertime. Exhibition catalogue. St. Louis: White Flag Projects, 2011.
--------. “Galleries, Downtown: "Miriam Böhm, Rosy Keyser, Erin Shirreff.” The New Yorker. 25 July 2011: 14.
Thompson, Matthew, Anne Ellegood, and Jenelle Porter. The Anxiety of Photography. Exhibition catalogue.
Aspen: Aspen Art Museum / D.A.P., 2011.
Kirsch, Corinna. “Reviews: ‘Which Witch is Which?’.” Art Papers. May/June: 55-6.
Pulimood, Steve. “Reviews: Erin Shirreff.” Modern Painters. February 2011: 72.
2010 Beck, Chelsea. “Artist’s Space: In Conversation with Erin Shirreff.” …might be good.com. Issue 159, 17 December 2010.
Jones, Caitlin. “The Function of the Studio (when the studio is a laptop).” Artlies.org. Issue 67. December 2010.
Frankel, David. “Reviews: Between Here and There.” Artforum. November 2010: 261-2.
Madden, Kathleen. “Critics’ Picks: Erin Shirreff.” Artforum.com. 30 October 2010.
Gallun, Lucy. Erin Shirreff: Still, Flat, and Far. Exhibition brochure. Philadelphia: ICA, 2010.
Biesenbach, Klaus, Connie Butler, and Neville Wakefield. Greater New York 2010. Exhibition catalogue.
New York: MoMA PS1, 2010.
Meade, Fionn. “Time Lapse.” Kaleidoscope. Issue 8 / Fall 2010: 54-9.
Beck, Graham T. “Back: Knight’s Move.” Frieze. Issue 133, September 2010: 145.
--------. “Museums, Metropolitan Museum: ‘Between Here and There’.” The New Yorker. 30 August 2010: 15.
Bochner, Mel, Daniel Bozhkov, Erin Shirreff, and Will Smith. “For the Rotation of the Work Never to Stop.”
Triple Canopy. Issue 9, July 2010.
Meade, Fionn. Knight’s Move. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Sculpture Center, 2010.
Rosenberg, Karen. “Photographs That Tell Unsettling Tales.” The New York Times. 9 July 2010: C26.
--------. “Museums, Sculpture Center: ‘Knight’s Move’.” The New Yorker. 7 June 2010: 27.
Wolff, Rachel. “The New York Five.” New York Magazine. 24 May 2010: 76-7.
Klein, Alex. Terminus Ante Quem. Exhibition brochure. Chicago: Shane Campbell Gallery, 2010.
Gartenfeld, Alex. “Reviews: Erin Shirreff.” Art in America. February 2010: 115-6.
Gritz, Anna. “Back: Erin Shirreff.” Frieze. Issue 128, January-February 2009: 131.
2009 Doran, Ann. “Art Reviews: Erin Shirreff.” Time Out New York. 17 December 2009: 82.
--------. “Galleries, Downtown: Erin Shirreff.” The New Yorker. 7 December 2009: 19.
Johnson, Ken. “The Lower East Side, Home to the Young and Emerging.” The New York Times. 4 December 2009: C31.
Vogel, Carol. “Cunning After Caution at London Art Fair.” New York Times/Int'l Herald Tribune. 16 October 2009: C1.
Crow, Kelly. “Frieze Art Fair Opens to Steady Sales, Gray Art.” The Wall Street Journal. 15 October 2009.
Douglas, Sarah. “Frieze Frame.” Artinfo.com. 15 October 2009.
Jones, Alice. “Can Frieze reheat the art market? Bright Young Things: Ones to Watch.” The Independent. 9 October 2009.
Ripple, Sean. “I Am Not So Different.” …might be good.com. Issue 125, 10 July 2009.
Cotter, Holland. “Last Chance: ‘Broken Thorn Sweet Blackberry’.” The New York Times. 27 March 2009: C2
2008 Smith, Roberta. “The Listings: Creswell Crags.” The New York Times. 26 September 2008: E25.
--------. “Galleries, Chelsea: ‘Some Thing Else’.” The New Yorker. 28 July 2008: 14.
Greenbaum, Ethan. “I made it out of clay.” Heeb. Summer 2008: 77.
Saltz, Jerry. “Critic’s Picks: ‘Some Thing Else’,” nymag.com, 7 July 2008.
2006 Schaefer, Carey Ann. Erin Shirreff and Colin Zaug. Exhibition brochure. Vancouver: Helen Pitt Gallery, 2006.
Published Project
2010 “Shadow, Glare.” Triple Canopy. Issue 9: Unplaced Movements, August 2010. Web commission.
Awards & Residencies
2011 The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
Canada Council for the Arts Project Grant
Artist-in-residence, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Tex.
2010 Artist-in-residence, The Western Front Society, Vancouver, B.C.
2008 The MacDowell Colony, Fellowship, Peterborough, N.H.
Nominee, New Museum of Contemporary Art Altoids Award for Emerging Artists
2005 Artist-in-residence, Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Dawson City, Yukon
The Hayward Prize for Fine Arts, The Austrian-American Foundation, New York, N.Y.
Blair Dickinson Memorial Prize, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Conn.
Susan H. Whedon Award, Yale University Sculpture Department, New Haven, Conn.
Public Collections
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, N.Y.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Tex.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.