Shannon Ebner on Bernd and Hilla Becher

Shannon Ebner was born in 1971 in Englewood, New Jersey, and received her BA from Bard College and her MFA from Yale University School of Art. Solo exhibitions include Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2011); kaufmann repetto, Milan (2010); Altman Siegel, San Francisco (2010); Wallspace, New York (2009, 2007, 2005); and MoMA PS1, New York (2007). Selected group exhibitions include the Venice Biennale (2011); The Spectacular of Vernacular, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2011); the 6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2010); Saints and Sinners, the Rose Art Museum, Waltham (2009); the Whitney Biennial (2008); Learn to Read, Tate Modern, London (2007); Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium, Serpentine Gallery, London (2006); the California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach (2006); The Plain of Heaven, Creative Time, New York (2005); and Monuments for the USA, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco. In spring 2011, Ebner’s work was shown at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in the exhibition Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language. She currently teaches at the University of Southern California’s Roski School of Fine Arts. She lives and works in Los Angeles.