Mound Plate, 2014
About the artist
Shaun O’Dell received a BA from the New College of California, San Francisco, in 2002 and an MFA from Stanford University in 2004. For the past two decades his work has investigated the history of America’s dissociation from nature and attempts to regenerate the myth of American exceptionalism through violence. His work has been exhibited widely in the US and internationally. O’Dell is represented in Houston by Inman Gallery, in San Francisco by Gallery 16. He has won numerous awards and honors including the Tournesol Award (2009, Headlands Center for the Arts), Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship (2006, SF Art Institute), Artadia Award (2005, San Francisco) and The Fleishhacker Foundation Award in 2002 His work is included in a number of permanent collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Bronx Museum of Arts, the de Young Museum, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at the Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco, Berkeley Art Museum and the DESTE Foundation of Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece. O'Dell lives and works in San Francisco.
