Erin Shirreff
Monograph (no. 1), 2011. One of six archival pigment prints with fold, each 36 x 46 inches. Courtesy the artist
Still, Flat, and Far, 2010. Installation view of sculpture, video and prints at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. Courtesy the artist
BIOGRAPHY
Born: Kelowna, British Columbia, 1975
Resides: New York, New York
Education: Yale University School of Art (M.F.A., 2005); University of Victoria, British Columbia (B.F.A., 1998)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012
"Available Light," Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa. Catalogue.
"Standing Shadows," Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid.
2011
The Locker Plant, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas.
2010
"Still, Flat, and Far," Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.
Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, Illinois.
2009
"Landscapes, Heads, Drapery, and Devils," Lisa Cooley, New York.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012
"Recto/Verso," The Approach, London.
"Le silence. Une fiction," Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monte Carlo. Catalogue.
"Ruins in Reverse," Room East, New York.
2011
"A Promise Is a Cloud," Public Art Fund, New York.
"Structure and Absence," White Cube, London. Catalogue.
"Look with all your eyes, look," Frith Street Gallery, London.
"Miriam Böhm, Rosy Keyser, Erin Shirreff," Lisa Cooley, New York.
"Another Victory over the Sun," Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Colorado. "The Anxiety of Photography," Aspen Art Museum, Colorado. Catalogue.
"Tabula Rasa," Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid.
"The Promise," Galerie Crèvecoeur, Paris.
"To What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong?" The Power Plant, Toronto.
2010
"Which Witch Is Which?" White Flag Projects, St. Louis.
"Immaterial," Ballroom Marfa, Texas. Catalogue.
"What a Difference a Day Makes," Andreas Grimm, Munich.
"S-N-W-O," Drei Raum für Gegenwartskunst, Cologne, Germany.
"The Fifth Genre," Galerie Lelong, New York.
"Between Here and There," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
"Greater New York," MoMA PS1, Queens. Catalogue.
"Knight's Move," SculptureCenter, Queens. Catalogue.
"Terminus Ante Quem," Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago.
"David Musgrave and Erin Shirreff," Front Room, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.
2009
"To the left of the rising sun," Small A Projects, Greenwich, New York.
"Dark Fair," Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany.
"Broken Thorn Sweet Blackberry," Sikkema Jenkins, New York.
2008
"Creswell Crags," Lisa Cooley, New York.
"Some Thing Else," Peter Blum Gallery, New York.
Selected Bibliography
2011
Kirsch, Corinna. "Reviews: 'Which Witch Is Which?'" Art Papers (May/June).
"Miriam Böhm, Rosy Keyser, Erin Shirreff," The New Yorker (July 25).
Pulimood, Steve. "Reviews: Erin Shirreff," Modern Painters (February).
Ward, Ossian. "Art Reviews: 'Look with All Your Eyes, Look,'" Time Out London (August 26).
Wullschlager, Jackie. "Visual Arts: 'Structure and Absence,'" Financial Times (October 13).
2010
Beck, Graham T. "Back: 'Knight's Move,'" Frieze (September).
"Between Here and There," The New Yorker (August 30).
Frankel, David. "Reviews: Between Here and There," Artforum (November).
Gritz, Anna. "Back: Erin Shirreff," Frieze (January/ February).
Madden, Kathleen. "Critic's Picks: Erin Shirreff" Artforum.com (October 30).
Meade, Fionn. "Erin Shirreff: Time Lapse," Kaleidoscope (Fall).
Rosenberg, Karen. "Photographs That Tell Unsettling Tales," The New York Times (July 9).
Shireff, Erin. "Unplaced Movements: 'Shadow, Glare,'" Triple Canopy (number 9).
Wolff, Rachel. "The New York Five," New York Magazine (May 24).
2009
Doran, Ann. "Erin Shirreff," Time Out New York (December 17).
"Erin Shirreff," The New Yorker (December 7).
Johnson, Ken. "The Lower East Side, Home to the Young and Emerging," The New York Times (December 4).