Shaun Gladwell
Born 1972, lives and works in Sydney.
Shaun Gladwell critically and poetically links personal experience with contemporary culture and historical references through performance, video, painting, photography and sculpture. His works engage these concerns through forms of urban expression such as skateboarding, hip-hop, graffiti, BMX bike riding, break-dancing and most recently, extreme sports.
Gladwell completed Associate Research at Goldsmiths College, University of London, in 2001 and has since undertaken international residencies and commissions in Europe, North and South America, and the Asia Pacific Region. In September 2006 he was the recipient of the Australia Council for the Arts. prestigious Visual Arts Fellowship
Gladwell’s work has been exhibited in major national and international exhibitions, including The Mind is a Horse, Bloomberg Space, London (2001), the Yokohama 2005 Triennale of Contemporary Art: Art Circus (Jumping from the Ordinary), Japan; Space Invaders, Kunsthaus Baselland, Switzerland (2005); the 52nd International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale: Think with the senses, feel with the mind — art in the present tense; 2006 (27th) Bienal de Sao Paulo, How to Live Together, Brazil; the Busan Biennale 2006: Everywhere, South Korea; and Space for Your Future, curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT)
Most recently, Gladwell has exhibited work in the Biennale of Sydney, Revolutions — forms that turn; the 2009 Taipei Biennial, and in 2009, Gladwell represented Australia with a solo exhibition in the Australian Pavilion, at the 53rd Venice Biennale.
Recent publications include MADDESTMAXIMVS: Planet & Stars Sequence, 2009, Schwartz City, published to coincide with the Venice Biennale exhibition; a monograph, Shaun Gladwell: Videowork, Blair French, ed., Artspace, 2007; and the documenta12 issue of Multitudes (Issue #30), a journal of French philosophy.
Shaun Gladwell is represented by Anna Schwartz Gallery.
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