Born in Toronto. Lives in London
Solo exhibitions:
2025:
Start Over Every Morning, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto
2024:
On The Street Where You Live, Kunsthalle Osnabrück
2022:
All Ages, Carlos/Ishikawa, London
2021:
Security, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
2020:
The Caretaker, Galeria Jaqueline Martins, São Paulo
2019:
Start Over Every Morning, Kunstverein Braunschweig
2018:
Deliquescing, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2017:
Seeing Is Forgetting What You’re Looking At or What It’s Called or Something, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin
What Would It Be Without You, Talion, Tokyo
2016:
By The Boundary, Statements, Art Basel
By The Boundary, And Now, Dallas
You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To, Supportico Lopez & 6817, Los Angeles
2015:
Standard Ballad, Carlos/Ishikawa, London
Noclip, La Salle de bains, Lyon
It’s Easier To Love Your Song Than It Is To Love You, Stereo, Warsaw
Deliquescing, Lock-up International, London
2014:
It’s Easier To Love Your Song Than It Is To Love You, Supportico Lopez, Berlin
2013:
An Escalator Can Never Break, It Can Only Become Stairs, Carlos/Ishikawa, London
2012:
Buildings are Heavy, Supplement, London
2010:
Sheer Fatigue, Christopher Crescent, London
2009:
Instant Distance / Distant Instance, Outpost, Norwich
Selected group exhibitions:
2025:
Maybe we could both belong, Den Frie, Copenhagen
Fantasmagoria, Casa Zalszupin, São Paulo
Don’t worry, what happens happens mostly without you, madame leniou, Athens
Type (curated by Adam Carr), Galeria Mascota, Mexico City
2024:
Gracious Hosts, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Dessau
Foreverism: Endless Horizons, Ilmin Museum of Art, Soeul
Ida Reading a Letter, Gems, New York
Madness of the Day (curated by Sabrina Tarasoff), Treignac Projet, Treignac
Vampire Problem? (curated by Ginny on Frederick), N/A, Seoul
No Cookies. No Cake, UA26, Vienna
Everything that excites me no longer functions in its own time, Cherry Hill, Cologne
2023:
Time, please, Kunst Raum Reihen, Basel
In the Off Hours, Galerie In Situ / Fabienne Leclerc, Romainville
2021:
Tacet, Gems, New York
Ensemble, Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles
Eight works from 2013, 2020, 2009, 1998, 2019, 2003, 2018, 1998, Wschód, Warsaw
2019:
Artists Use Photography, Praz Delavallade, Los Angeles
2018:
Condo Unit, Galeria Jaqueline Martins, São Paulo
Computer, (curated by Ermes Ermes) Bureau Des Réalités, Brussels
Porcupine, (curated by Artun Alaska Arasli), Van Eyck, Maastricht
Red House, Talion, Tokyo
2017:
Condo, Bureau, New York
Benefit show, Shanaynay, Paris
Accept baby, Forde, Geneva
2016:
How Deep is the Ocean (curated by Arlene Berceliot Courtin), Shanaynay, Paris
An Idle Visitation (organised by ANDNOW, Hester & Tomorrow), Plaza Mercado, Santa Fe
Ver Lento (curated by Francisco Cordero-Oceguera), Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City
Irony Comes from a Vanishing Point (curated by Julia Marchand), Stereo, Warsaw
2015:
Borrowed Alibis, Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Zürich
Limited Liability Corporation, Frankfurt am Main & LLC, Berlin
City, William Arnold, New York
2014:
In the Wake (curated by Julia Marchand), Truth and Consequences, Geneva
Enigma, Minibar, Stockholm
Fight, Center, Berlin
Pre-Pop to Post-Human (curated by Isobel Harbison), Hayward Touring, UK
2013:
From Morn Till Midnight, Supportico Lopez, Berlin
To Clear The Bush Of Your Garden (with Richard Sides), David Dale Gallery, Glasgow
Every bird brings a different melody to the garden, No Format, London
2012:
Remainder (curated by Alex Ross), Hilary Crisp, London
Technicolour Yawn (curated by Nadim Samman), Import Projects, Berlin & Karst Projects, Plymouth
Painting Without Paint, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
2011:
Performance Anxiety (curated by Nicolas Djandji), Stadium, New York
Steve Bishop & Dan Shaw-Town, Christopher Crescent, London
Common Room, Pianissimo, Milan
Studio Artists Group Show, Woodmill, London
2010:
Converse / Dazed Emerging Artists Award, Stephen Friedman, London
New Panorama, Pianissimo, Milan
The Devil’s Necktie, Woodmill, LondonSomething Left Undone, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva
2009:
Grey Matter, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
Misc projects and publishing:
2025: Concentric Group, record label for sound art, founded in cooperation with the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation 2021: Agency, audio work released as 12″ vinyl edition2020: Start Over Every Morning, exhibition catalog published by Kunstverein Braunschweig, Motto Books & Floating Opera Press, Berlin
2019: Deliquescing, exhibition catalog published by Sternberg Press with KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2019: Present Time, print edition with Kunstverein Braunschweig
2016: Strangers’ Guide to Home Territories, artist book published by Supportico Lopez with Motto, Berlin
2016: You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To, online project for EBM-T.org, Tokyo
2015: Hello, How May I Help You?, artist book published with La Salle de Bains, Lyon
2014: I See Them, Do You?, online project for Bomb magazine, NY
2014: World Music, group show co-curated with Richard Sides at Carlos/Ishikawa, London
2013: Focus II, artist publication produced with Beyond Entropy Mediterranean
2009 – 2013: Edited and published the biannual paper Mono
Selected Bibliography:
2023:
Artforum, Jennifer Teets, “In the off hours”, Critics Picks, Jun 2023
2022:
Art Monthly, Chris Fite-Wassilack, “Mould in the Museum”, Dec 2022
2021:
Contemporary Art Review LA, Neyat Yohannes, “Ensemble”, Feb 2021
2020:
CLOT, Leoni Fischer, “Orchestrating the notions of everyday life”, Jun 2020
2019:
Artforum, Matthew Herbet, “Deliquescing”, Feb 2019
Contemporary Art Writing Daily, “Start Over Every Morning” May 2019
Canadian Art, “Deliquescing preview”, Winter 2019
2017:
The New York Times, Roberta Smith, “Out-of-Town Galleries Arrive, Bearing Art”, July 13th 2017
Frieze.com, Sam Korman, “Critic’s Guide”, July 4th 2017
ICON, Francesco Garutti, “Artist’s Things”, Jul-Aug 2017
2016:
Frieze.com, Paul Teasdale, “By the Boundary” Aug 2016
2015:
This is tomorrow, David Price, “Standard Ballad” Feb 2015
2013:
Artforum, Gilda Williams, “An Escalator Can Never Break”, Apr, p.269-70
Kaleidoscope, Karen Archey, “Post Materiality”, Summer Issue #18, p. 36 & 41
Modern Painters, Rob Sharp, “An Escalator Can Never Break”, May, p.105
Art Monthly, Chris Fite-Wassilak “London Round-up”, Apr, p.33
2012:
Mousse, Laura McLean-Ferris, “The Air Medium”, #36 Dec/Jan, p. 148-151
Art Review, Oliver Basciano, “Off-Space Travels – No.4: Supplement, London”, Mar, p. 40-41
Frieze, Martin Herbert, “Steve Bishop & Dan Shaw-Town”, Issue 114, Jan/Feb 2012, p.136
2011:
Art Review, Oliver Basciano, “Steve Bishop & Dan Shaw-Town”, Oct, p. 106
Rhizome.org, Orit Gat, Artist Profile, Nov
Modern Painters, Coline Millard, “Why Young London Works”, Oct, p.86