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Stephen J. Shanabrook
Lives and works in New York City
Education
1990-92 Stichting Ateliers 63, Haarlem, The Netherlands
1984-87 Syracuse University USA, B.F.A., Syracuse, New York
1986-87 Syracuse University, Florence, Italy.
1987 Skowhegan School of Painting/Sculpture, Maine
Collaborations, Awards
2017 Postcard Project grant from Northern Manhattan Arts & Culture / NMAC
2014 Wallpaper* Magazine Limited Edition Cover & “Final Cut” inside Project *
2013 Senhoa Foundation, against human trafficking campaign *
2012 shortlisted for Lexus Hybrid Art Grant *
2011 Petrou\Man advertising campaign *
2010 shortlisted for Cannes Golden Lions for Reporters Without Borders advertising campaign*
2010 Saatchi & Saatchi for Reporters Without Borders 25th anniversary advertising campaign*
2010 Comme des Garçons world-wide advertising campaign Spring-Summer 2010 *
Solo Exhibitions
2018 POOR TRAITS, with Gerben Mulder at Frank Taal, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2011 Traveling Idiot, curated by Renata Salecl, City Museum of Ljubljana, Vzigalica Gallery, Slovenia
2011 He Who Makes Beast Of Himself, Charlotte Moser Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
2010 In Pills We Trust, Orel Art UK, London, UK
2009 Liquid Lushes and Late Night House of Pills, Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, New York
2009 Morgue Chocolate, project for Eternal Tour, Musee d’art et d’histoire, Neuchatel, Switzerland
2008 Devil’s Necklace, Orel Art, Paris, France
2008 Licking Your Wounds, Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, New York
2008 Autopsy of the Moment and Other Flat Gestures, Charlotte Moser Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
2006 Hell & Back, XL Projects, Moscow, Russia
2006 Hell & Back, Artstrelka Projects, Moscow, Russia
2003 Automat, Kubometer Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2002 Stephen j Shanabrook, De Schone Kunsten Gallery, Haarlem, Netherlands
2001 Being Wet, 31 Grand Gallery, New York
2001 Topographical Study of the Human Brain After a Gunshot Blast to the Mouth, De Schone Kunsten Gallery, Haarlem, Netherlands
1997 Wild East Wild West, De Praktijk Gallery, two person show with Ronald Ophuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1997 Mapping Out Narcotic Finger Movements , Festival a/d Werf, Utrecht, Netherlands
1997 Stephen j Shanabrook, De Schone Kunsten Gallery, Haarlem, Netherlands
1996 Deformed Faces Club, De Schone Kunsten Gallery, Haarlem, Netherlands
1996 Sleeping with Chocolate, Festival a/d Werf, Utrecht, Netherlands
1996 Unknown Resurrections, Galerija Kapelica, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1996 Restitution after the Meeting of 13, New Planet Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
1996 More ( Than) Chocolate, two person show with Olga Chernysheva, L-Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Group exhibitions
2019 Co-Author, Oktava Multimedia Museum, Tula, Russia
2018 The Hat Makes The Man, curated by Robert Wilson, Marie de Testa, Noah Khoshbin, Max Ernst Museum, Brühl, Germany
2018 Co-Author, State Contemporary Art Center, Vladikavkaz , Russia
2018 Yes, We Are Open, Frank Taal Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2018 Assaulted Landscape with Splattered Rivers and No Place to Hide, curated Noah Khoshbin & Ivan Cheng, performance for Watermill Gala
2018 Watermill Auction, curated Daneyal Mahmood, The 25th Anniversary Watermill Center Summer Benefit, Water Mill, NY
2018 Brother from Another Mother, Galerie Mark Peet Visser, curated by Majke Hüsstege Projects, Knokke, Belgium
2018 Art Rotterdam, Frank Taal Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2017 Proof of Life, Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany
2017 Beaten to a Pulp on the Bed of Moss, curated Noah Khoshbin & Ivan Cheng, performance for Watermill Gala
2017 Watermill Auction, curated by Daneyal Mahmood, The 24th Annual Watermill Center Summer Benefit, Water Mill, NY
2017 Postcard Project, Northern Manhattan Arts & Culture / NMAC, NYC
2017 Forbidden Games, project for Contemporary Art Center, Vladikavkaz, Russia
2016 SPIN2, Exploratorium Museum of Art and Science, San-Francisco USA*
2016 Repsychling II, curated Vida Sabbaghi, Former Pfizer Chemicals Building, Brooklyn, New York
2016 Co-Author, curated Katya Bochavar, Museum New Wing of Gogol, Moscow, Russia*
2016 Co-Author, curated Katya Bochavar, Perm Art Center, Perm, Russia*
2015 Memory Lane, curated Tim Goossens project for AURORA FESTIVAL, Dallas, Texas USA*
2015 SWEET as ONE, Public Art Project for All Right Reserved, IFS, Chengdu, China
2015 Repsychling, curated Vida Sabbaghi, Macy Gallery, Columbia University, New York
2014 SPIN, Exploratorium Museum of Art and Science, San-Francisco*
2014 Project Moskva: Urban Space, parallel program, curated Christina Steinbrecher-Pfandt, Ca’Rezzonico, 14th Venice Architectural Biennale, Venice, Italy*
2014 Full House, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belguim
2014 Collection of Sonny Burt & Bob Butler, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, Texas USA
2013 Dissecting Art, Intersecting Anatomy: Merging contemporary art with the works of Pauline Lariviere, S3 Gallery, Chicago
2013 Eat Your Heart Out Anatomical Heart Pop Up, Original Content, London, United Kingdom
2012 Wunderkammer, curated Birte Kleeman, AUTOCENTER, Berlin Germany
2012 Dirty Messy Paintings, curated Gerben Mulder, Ross Arts, Rosendale, NY, USA
2012 Memory Confetti, Brooklyn Fine Arts, NY, USA*
2012 Capricious Auction, Martos Gallery, NY, USA
2012 Take My Soul, EXPRMNTL Galerie, Toulouse, France
2012 Editions, ford PROJECT, New York, USA*
2011 Afgan-Kuzminki: Human Oratory, curated Andrey Parshikov, parallel program of 4th Moscow Biennale, Moscow*
2011 Afgan-Kuzminki: Human Oratory, curated Andrey Parshikov, Viktoria Gallery, Samara, Russia*
2011 Acquired Taste, Begovich Gallery, California State University, Fullerton USA
2011 Summer Affair, curated Tim Goossens & Rachel Vancelette, ford PROJECT, New York, USA*
2011 Visions & Fashion. Capturing Style 1980/2010, Kulturforum, Berlin State Museum, Germany*
2011 It is Amber, Arnhem Mode Biennale, curated by JOFF, Arnhem, Netherlands*
2011 MONAISM, inaugural exhibition, Museum of Old and New Art ( MONA), Tasmania, Australia
2011 Manipulation, Old Umbrella Factory, Nijmegen, Netherlands
2011 The Show Must Go On, Capricious Space, New York USA
2010 Street Anatomy, curated Vanessa Ruiz, International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, USA
2010 Bittersweet, Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, USA
2010 Obscure Desire, curated Kartini Tanoto, 1918ArtSpace Gallery, Shanghai, China*
2010 Chocolate A-Z, Gallery by the Harbour, Hong-Kong
2010 New Culture Festival, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2009 That’s All, Folks! Stadshallen, Bruges, Belgium
2009 TSUMArt, TSUM Department Store, Moscow, Russia
2009 ArtsLottery, CECArtslink, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
2009 Children of Perestroika, curated by Andrey Parshikov, parallel program 3rd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia
2009 Bad News, Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, New York, USA
2009 Summer Show, Orel Art, Paris, France
2009 Fool’s Food, CAN, Centre d’Art Neuchâtel, Switzerland
2009 The Aesthetics of Terror, Embedded Art, Akademie der Künste, Berlin Germany
2008 The Aesthetics of Terror, curated Manon Slome & Joshua Simon, Chelsea Art Museum, New York USA
2008 Meat after Meat Joy, curated Heidi Hatry, Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, New York, USA
2008 Triptyque, Angers Festival, France
2008 Deadly Serious, EXPRMNTL Galerie, Toulouse, France
2008 Speaking to the Unspeakable, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2008 Holy Smoke! Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2007 East/ West, Orel Art, Paris, France
2007 It’s Not a Food, curated by Olga Loupokhova, Era Foundation Museum, Moscow Russia
2007 Love is in The Air, EXPRMNTL Galerie, Toulouse, France
2007 Toutes les couleurs sont autorisées à condition que cela n’empêche pas le commerce, curated by Claud Briand-Picard & Antoine Perrot, Atelier 340 Muzeum, Brussels, Belgium
2007 Images Festival, curated by Pablo de Ocampo, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2007 Red Shift Festival, Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA
2006 Common Destination, curated by Katherine Carl, The Drawing Center, New York, USA
2006 Rembrandt: Death, Dissection & Doctors, curated by Kees Maas, Lloyd Hotel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2006 Blessed are the Merciful, curated by Jerome Jacobs, Feigen Contemporary, New York, USA
2006 Artists and Arms, LAZNIA Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland
2005 Oracle of Truth, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium
2005 Artists and Arms, Contemporary Art Center MARS, Moscow, Russia
2005 Boost in the Shell, curated by Jerome Jacobs and MichelDewilde, De Bond, Bruges, Belgium
2005 Accomplices, The State Tretyakov Gallery, 1st Moscow Biennale, Russia
2005 Art on Wheels, ArtStrelka, Moscow, Russia
2004 Flipside, collaboration with Jury Leiderman & Vadim Fishkin, curated by Katherine Carl, Artists Space, New York, USA
2004 Should I Stay or Should I Go?, De Schone Kunsten Galerie, Haarlem, Netherlands
2004 Art Kljasma Contemporary Art Festival, curated by Vladimir, Dubossarsky & Alexander Vinogradov, Moscow, Russia
2004 Artists and Arms, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Nizhny Tagil/ Kaliningrad, Russia
2004 Art Moscow, Kubometer Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2004 Eat It! Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany
2003 Art Kljasma Contemporary Art Festival, Moscow, Russia
2003 Gun and Wound, curated by Alisoun Meehan, White Box, New York, USA
2002 plek voor blanco, De Schone Kunsten Galerie, Haarlem, The Netherlands
2002 100% of Vision, curated by Anatoly Osmolovsky, Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2002 Melioration, curated by Vladimir Dubossarsky & Alexander Vinogradov, Contemporary Art Festival, Moscow, Russia
2002 Dead or Alive, curated by Suncica Ostoic & Olga Majken, Zavod K6/4, Ljubljana SLovenia
2002 Unpacked no. 4, New York, USA
2002 Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now, Low Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2002 Sweets, curated by Alisoun Meehan, New York, USA
2001 Dining Haul: Truck Set for Twelve, curated by Alisoun Meehan, New York, USA
2001 WORKSPHERES, MoMA / Museum of Modern Art, New York*
2001 White Lights, Contemporary Art Festival, Haarlem, Netherlands
2000 Downtown Arts Festival, New York, USA
2000 Stations, Contemporary Art Festival, Nieuwe Markt, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2000 Art Concern. De Schone Kunsten Galerie, Haarlem, Netherlands
1999 Paradise 8, curated by Dominique Nahas, Exit Art, New York, USA
1999 Chocolate. Sotheby’s Mezzanine Gallery, London, UK
1998 Chocolate, Rochdale Museum, Scotland
1998 Chocolate. Summerlee Heritage Centre, Coatbridge, Scotland
1998 Chocolate, Collins Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
1997 A Natural Selection, curated by Dominique F. Nahas, Z Gallery, New York, USA
1997 “Wat AF is, is niet gemaakt “, De Utrechtse School, Utrecht, Netherlands
1996 Proud Flesh, curated by Joost Pollmann, De Vishal, Haarlem, Netherlands
1996 The Invisible Purpose, Wax Museum, Moscow, Russia
1995 Chocolate! curated by Carin Kuoni & Ingrid Schaffner, The Swiss Institute, New York USA
1995 Northern Voices: N-Brow Traveling Medicine Show, AS 220, Providence Rhode Island, USA
1995 Culture, Water and Money – the Passion of the Frontier, SanYgnacio, USA
1995 Unbelievable, Rex Cinema, Belgrade, Serbia
1994 Exchange/Datsja, curated by Suzanne Oxenaar, Vincent de Boer & Olga Loupokhova, Amsterdam The Netherlands
1994 Consuming Passions: Food, Art, Culture, curated by Sara Kellner, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, USA
1994 Artists’ Congress, MOCA / Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, USA
1993 Exchange, Moscow Russia / curated by Suzanne Oxenaar, Vincent de Boer & Olga Loupokhova
* projects done in collaboration with Veronika Georgieva
Collections
Robert Wilson Collection
Berlin State Museum ( Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), Germany
MONA, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania
MoMA / Museum of Modern Art, New York
Damien Hirst’s “ Murder Me” collection, London
Trust for Mutual Understandings, New York
Rabus Collection, Neuchatel, Belgium
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland
Mars Contemporary Art Center, Moscow, Russia
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, USA
Private Collections in Europe, USA, Russia and Australia
Permanent Public Installations
2001 The Orbitor’s Chair, BovenIj Ziekenhuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1999 The Spoken Word Through Water & Time, Dr. Sarphatihuis Hospital, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Selected Awards and Grants
2004 Travelling Bullet Project, commission from CEC International , USA
1992-1998 Stichting Fonds Voor Beeldende Kunsten, Netherlands.
1995 ArtsLink Grant for Moscow, Russia , Citizen Exchange Council, USA.
1993 Stichting Fonds Voor Beeldende Kunsten, presentation grant Russia