Tom Shannon
born June 23, 1947
"Tom
Shannon is an artist-inventor. An early work, made at age 19, was included
in the landmark exhibition The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical
Age at the Museum of Modern Art in 1969. Since that time his sculptures
have been included in numerous international exhibitions in institutions
such as the Centre Pompidou, the Stedelijk Museum, Moderna Museet, the Venice
Biennale, the Sao Paulo Bienal, the Biennale de Lyon, the Musee dÕArt
Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the Whitney Museum. Recent international
commissions include an installation at Chateau dÕOiron, Taejon Art
Park designed by Renzo Piano. Patents for the first tactile telephone, a
color television projector and a synchronous world clock which is in the
collection of the Smithsonian Institution. Currently, Shannon is developing
a spherical helium airship whose entire surface is a LED video screen with
AeroVironment, the aeronautical engineering firm founded by Dr. Paul MacCready."
"Shannon attended the University of Wisconsin and the Art Institute
of Chicago where he received his Master of Fine Art degree.Shannon lives
in New York City with his wife Caty and their three sons."
GROUP
EXHIBITIONS
2001 SPACE ODYSSEY, Art Tower Mito, Mito , Japan
SCIENCE AND SCIENCE FICTION, Castle Gallery , New Rochelle, New York
ART UNLIMITED, Basel Art 32, Basel ,Switzerland
2000 VISIONS du FUTUR, Grand Palais, Paris ,France
BIENN ýALE de LYON, Lyon, France
THE ART of TIME, Bruce Museum, Greenwich , Connecticut
sci+ART+tech, Hunterdon Museum of Art. Clinton, New Jersey
1999 ZERO-G, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion
1997 INTERNATIONAL BIENNALE in NAGOYA, Modern Art Museum, Nagoya,Japan
1996 ERDSICHT. GLOBAL CHANGE, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid,
Spain
1995 FEUX TERRESTRES, Annee Paul Valery, Centre Regional dÕArt Contemporain,
Sete, France
1993 CURIOSITES NATURELLES, La Maison des Arts, Antony, France
CURIOS ET MIRABILIA, Chateau dÕOiron, Tours, France
TAEJON EXPO 93, Taejon, South Korea
1992 TERRITORIUM ARTIS, Kunst und Austellungshalle der Bundesrepublik, Bonn,
Germany E.S.P. Show, Dooley la Cappelaine Gallery, New York
1991 METAFOR OCH MATERIA, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
INTERNATIONAL BIENNALE IN NAGOYA, ARTEC Prize, Modern Art Museum, Nagoya,Japan
SCHWERELOS, Grosse Orangerie, Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany
OPENING SHOW, Pascal de Sarthe Gallery, Los Ange Øles
1990 LE TERRITOIRE DE LÕART, Institut des Hautes Etudes en Arts Plastiques,
Musee Russe,St Petersburg, Russia
1989 THE EVIDENCE OF MAGIC, Galerie de Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
PHENOMENA ART, Saibu Gas Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
CLOCKWORK, MIT List Visual Center, Cambridge
1986 VENICE BIENNALE, International Pavillion, Spazio, Venice, Italy
IDEAS ABOVE EARTH, SPACE ARCHITECTURE, Octagon Museum, Washington
1985 EXPOSICOES ESPECIAIS, ENTRE A CIENCIA A FICCAO, Sao Paulo Biennale,
Sao Paulo, Brazil
HALLEYÕS COMET SHOW, Light Gallery, New York
1983 1984 SHOW, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York
1982 ESPACES, Sigma Festival, Bordeaux, France
ALEA[S], Musee dÕArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York
Travelling to: The Tate Gallery, London, England; Documenta, Kassel, Germany;
The Basement Group, Newcastle-upon -Tyne, England; Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool,
England1983: Walt Ýer Phillips Gallery, Banff Center of Fine Arts,Alberta,
Canada; The Berkshire Museum, Massachusetts
1981 FANTASTIC ARCHITECTURE, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
SCULPTURAL MINIATURES & MINIATURE SCULPTURES, Buecker & Harpsichords,New
York
NEW YORK, NEW WAVE, Institute for Art and Hurban Resources, PS 1, New York
1980 TEN YEARS OF GROUP SHOWS, Buecker & Harpsichords, New York
CARTES ET FIGURES DE LA TERRE,Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
NIGHT OF THE BAROQUE DIVAS, Sets for the Soho Baroque Opera Co., New York
1979 SCIENCE-ORIENTED ART,Buecker & Harpsichord, New York
THE ALTERED PHOTOGRAPH, The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York
SOUND, The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York
VIEWS OVER AMERICA, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1978 PAINTING AND SCULPTURE TODAY, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
1977 MAPS, Museum of Modern Art, New York
PAINTINGS, Zola / Libernan, Chicago
1976 COLLAGE, Buecker & Harpsichord, New York G
1975 WATERCOLORS, Buecker & Harpsichord, New York
THE PERFORMING ART AND THE FUTURE OF TELEVISION, Lincoln Center, New York
1970 OTHER IDEAS, Detroit Institute of Fine Art, Detroit
ART IN THE MIND, Oberlin College,
1969 72nd ANNUAL, Chicago Art Institute, ( awarded1st Prize; Jury : A. James
Speyer,Samuel J. Wagstaff, George Segal)
THE MACHINE AS SEEN AT THE END OF THE MECHANICAL AGE |
Museum ofModern Art, New York - Traveling to : St Thomas University Museum,
Houston; San Fransisco Art Institute, San Fransisco
1968 DRAWINGS, Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago
1967 PAULINE PALMER PRIZE,Chicago Art Institute, Chicago (Jury: Walter Hopps,
A. James Speyer}
AWARDS, GRANTS, DEGREE AND PATENTS
2001 Patent for VIDEO GLOBE AIRSHIP Patent for PROP , RING PROPULSION-CONTROL
SYSTEM (with AeroVironment, Inc.)
1995
Florence Gould Foundation Grant
1991
Patent for FOUR WAY REVERSIBLE GARMENTS (with Caty Shannon)
ARTEC
FIRST PRIZE, Museum of Modern Art, Nagoya, Japan (shared with Gary Hill
and N &H Harrison )
1986 Patent for SYNCHRONOUS WORLD CLOCK
1974 Patent for COLOR TELEVISION PROJECTOR (with Walter De Maria and Maris
Ambats)
1973
Patent for TELEPHYSICAL PHONE SYSTEM (tactile communication)
1970
Cassandra Foundation Grant
1969
First Prize, Frank G. Logan Award, Chicago Art Institute, ChicagoUnion Carbide
Corporation Linde Division Award
Master of Fine Arts Degree - School of the Chicago Art Institute, Chicago
1967
Pauline Palmer Prize, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago