Shawn Lyons, (b. 1973, Philadelphia)

Currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York

info@shawnlyons.com | www.shawnlyons.com | 347.244.2438

 

Selected Exhibitons

 

1995 Site-specific installation, “The Front Lawn Needs Protection”, Petersburg, AK

1996 Site-specific performance, “Mosey Rhino”, San Francisco, CA

1997-99 Site-specific installation / performance, “The Hole”, San Francisco, CA

2005 Site-specific performance, “Making Friends With Cormorants”, U Thant Island, NY

2008 Site-specific installation, “Silent Nights”, Brooklyn, NY

2009 Site-specific performance, “Throg”, Brooklyn, NY

2013 Exhibition, “Un-Natural Constellations”, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York City

 

Selected Curatorial Projects

2007

Tal Schpantzer, Limbus Diary

Jason Gandy, Atixip Te Foxl

 

2008

Gui Mohallem, Rehearsal To Madness

Lindsay Blatt, Repair and Shine

 

2010

Rachel Meuler, Sum Of Their Parts

 

2011

Rose Klabin / Rodolpho Parigi, Works on Paper

Phillip Stearns, Subliminal Machines

 

2012

Marina Markovic, Pressure Me.

Pierre Fichefeux, The King of Chickens Makes Havoc in Heaven

 

2010 – present

Mobile Exhibition Project, Art Attack!, On-going and alternating exhibitions

 

Forthcoming

 

Currently working on a memoir based on The Hole (a performance in which I lived in a hole for nearly two years) tentatively titled The Stone In The Center Of The Sun Spins Slowly.