Shaun O'Dell

Shaun O'Dell makes drawings, videos, music, and sometimes sculpture. His work explores the intertwining realities of the human and natural orders. O'Dell has exhibited his work at many venues, including Susan Inglett Gallery in New York, the Jack Hanley Gallery in San Francisco and Los Angeles, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, UCLA Hammer Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Whitebox in New York, and the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York.

His work is held in the permanent collections of the New York Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, M.H. deYoung Memorial Museum, and the Berkeley Art Museum. He also is the co-organizer of The New New Masses, a lecture series on art and politics and teaches at the University of California at Berkeley.

His awards include the Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship from the San Francisco Art Institute (2006), an Artadia Award (2005), the SECA Award from the San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art (2004), and a Fleishhacker Foundation Award (2002).