Marie Shannon (born 1960) is a New Zealand artist and educator who makes photography, video and drawing. Her artwork is in the collections of Te Papa, New Zealand's national museum, and Dunedin, Christchurch and Auckland city galleries.
Background and education Shannon was born in Nelson in 1960. She went to the University of Auckland Elam School of Fine Arts and graduated in 1982 with a major in photography.
Shannon is based in Auckland, New Zealand.
Career Shannon's art is often centred around her domestic interiors and the creative process between her and other artists. Shannon represented New Zealand at Australia's Asia-Pacific Triennale in 1996, and was exhibited in the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney. Then in 1998, her work was at New Plymouth's Govett-Brewster and Melbourne's ACCA.
Shannon's partner was artist Julian Dashper who died in 2009. She has made cataloguing his artworks into art, which are text-based videos. An example is The Aachen Faxes, Christchurch remix at the Christchurch Art Gallery. In a review of a retrospective of Shannon's work, the comment is made that she was overshadowed by her partner Dashper.
As an educator she works at Unitec, Auckland.
Selected exhibitions 1992 - Headlands: Thinking Through New Zealand Art, MCA, Sydney, Australia 2000 - Fissure, Five Shows, Five Curators, ACProjects, New York, USA 2009 - Large Still Life, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland 2009 - Love Notes (solo), Courtenay Place light boxes, Off-site project of City Gallery, Wellington 2009 - Marie Shannon, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington 2011 - What I Am Looking At, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland 2012 - The Aachen Faxes, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington 2015 - Julian Dashper and Friends, City Gallery Wellington 2015 - The things we talked about, ST PAUL St Gallery, Auckland University of Technology 2015 - TRUTH + FICTION, Trish Clark Gallery, Auckland 2016 - Notes and Letters (solo), PS Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2016 - THE XX FACTOR, Trish Clark Gallery, Auckland 2016 - this is the cup of your heart, The Dowse, Lower Hutt 2017 - An Architecture of Things, Trish Clark Gallery, Auckland 2017 - Rooms found only in the home, Dunedin Public Art Gallery 2018 - Rooms found only in the home (solo), Adam Art Gallery, Wellington 2018 - Rooms found only in the home (solo), Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū 2018 - Short Stories (solo), Trish Clark Gallery, Auckland 2019 - Here we are, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 2019 - Rooms found only in the home (solo), Te Uru, Auckland 2020 - Rooms found only in the home (solo), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (cancelled due to COVID-19)
Selected works
Sunday Afternoon 1985 view Born to be Tame No. 1 1987 view Untitled (American Gothic) 1989 view Dust Rat 1990 view The House at Night 1990 view Portrait of Julian Dashper 1991 view The House of Parmesan 1992 view Travel 1993 view I Love You Too 2005 view Bedroom Window Still Life 2021 view
Collections Shannon's work is held in the following permanent collections:
Te Papa Tongarewa Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū Dunedin Public Art Gallery Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmiki
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