History
"CreepMode" AOW: REMIX Dance Theater Workshop NYC photo: David Szlasa
Bill Shannon
VISUAL ART
New York Science Center, Human+ Exhibit Video Installation 2012
The Farm Gallery, Weelfleet MA Lithographic Prints 2012
Pallitz Gallery Newhouse Fellow Exhibit NY NY April 2011 Video
DNA Gallery Space, NY,NY Solo Exhibit Spatiotemporality 2010
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden AfterHours Video Installation 2010
Kennedy Center – Washington, DC, Derivative Composition Video 2008
Douz and Mille Gallery NYC Work Drawings Video and Performance 2008
Helsinki, Kiasma Museum – First We Take Museums Video Installation Performance 2005
Liverpool, UK, Tate Gallery – Art, Lies and Videotape , Video Installation 2003
New York, NY, Creative Time, commission What is What www.whatiswhat.com May – August 2003
The Performing Garage, Manhattan 2000
DANCE and PERFORMANCE ART
Liberty Festival, National Theater, London Sept 2012
WellFleet Dance Festival, Site Specific Dance Wellfleet MA July 2012
New York City Dance Parade, Grand Marshall NY NY June 2012
World Maker Faire, New York USA September 2011
Interplay Festival , Turin Italy May 2011
Festival Cialoumysl Warsaw Poland 2010
Dansens Hus, Stockholm Sweden May 2010
Vancouver International Dance Festival, Vancouver Canada 2010
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Public Work New York City, USA 2010
Gotheburg Dance and Theater Festival, Goteborg, Sweden, 2009
Breakin’ Convention, London, UK, Spatial Theory 2009
Kaaitheater, Brussels, Belgium, Sketchy 2008
VIA Festival, Maubeuge, France, Sketchy 2007
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Traffic Premiere 2006
Contact Theater, Manchester, UK, Sketchy 2006
Dance City, Newcastle, UK, Sketchy 2006
Union Station, Washington DC, Street Performance 2006
The Kitchen, New York, USA Sketchy 2005
Teatro de la Ciudad, Monterrey, Mexico, Spatial Theory 2005
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, Window Premiere 2005
East London Dance, London, UK, Regarding the Fall 2004
Hip Hop Dance Festival, San Francisco, CA, Freestyle Dance Performance 2004
Sydney Opera House/Studio Theater, Australia, Spatial Theory 2004
Melbourne Fringe Festival, Australia, Spatial Theory 2004
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA Sketchy Premiere 2004
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK, Site-Specific Street Performance 2004
Dance Theater Workshop, N Y, NY, AOW: Remix 2003
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland, Spatial Theory 2003
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Oregon, Spatial Theory 2002
Trafalgar Square Arts Festival, London, England, Spatial Theory and Street Performance 2002
Hip-Hop Theater Festival, NY, NY, Solo Freestyle 2002
Flynn Center for the Arts, Burlington, VT, USA Spatial Theory 2002
Kennedy Center/Millennium Stage, Washington, DC, Spatial Theory 2002
Central Park Summer Stage, NYC, AOW: Remix 2002
Athenaeum Theater, Chicago, IL, AOW: Remix 2002
Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN, Old Raiin 2001
URB Festival, Helsinki, Finland, Spatial Theory 2001
Centre du Danse Galion, France, Improvisational Solo 2002
Cirque du Soleil, Choreography – Varekai August 2001- May 2002
The Holland Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Old Rain and Regarding the Fall 2000
Performance Space 122, NY, NY, Old Rain and Regarding the Fall 1999
NOW Festival, Nottingham, UK, Art of Weightlessness 1999
Exit Festival, Creteil, France, Art of Weightlessness 1999
Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, Art of Weightlessness
International Festival for Independent Theater, Amman, Jordan, Spatial Theory
Awards and Grants
Wynn Newhouse Foundation Award 2011
Nominee Rolex Awar
Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council Project Grant and Strategic Opportunity Grant 2007
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Grants for Arts in Public Spaces 2006
The Harkness Foundation for Dance 2005
New York Foundation for the Arts-Artist Fellowship 2004
New York State Council of Arts Dance 2004
National Endowment for the Arts 2004 Multidisciplinary, 2001
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship 2003
Bossak-Heilbron Charitable Foundation Dance 2003
National Endowment for the Arts Multidisciplinary 2002
National Dance Project/New England Foundation for the Arts 2004 and 2002
Jerome Foundation 2001
Arts International/Fund for US Artists at International Festivals 2003, 2001 and 2000
Foundation for Contemporary Art 2000
Downtown Arts/Colbert Foundation-Emerging Arts Award 2000
James E. Robison Foundation 1999
Pennsylvania Council of the Arts Interdisciplinary Arts Fellowship 1998 and 1992
Commercial Work
Visa Card, Europe Wide Advertisement, Choreography and Performance 2010
Tylenol “Team Pain” Skateboard Sponsorship, Skateboard Demos 2004
Cirque Du Soleil Creative Team Varekai, Choreography 2001
Residencies
Dance New Amsterdam Artist in Residence NY NY 2011 – 2012
The Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland, UK Spring 2007
The Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA Fall 2005
South Lanarkshire Council, Scotland, UK Summer 2005
Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, San Francisco, CA 1999
Teaching/Workshops
Cirque Du Soleil, Independent Contractor Shannon Technique Training for Varekai Character 2011
Dance Instructor Umea Sweden, Reverse Engineering The Shannon Technique 2010
Guest Professor, Penn State University, State College, PA Course Innovation and Accident 2010
Artist-in-Residence - Gasthuis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Public Performance and Media 2000
Workshop Teacher-Restless Gravity Festival, Wales, UK 2000
Workshop Teacher-Dance Alloy, Pittsburgh, PA 1999
Speaking Engagements/Lectures
Kumuwuki Keynote Speaker and Artist in Residence, Goolwa Australia 2012
Featured Speaker Ästhetik versus Authentizität? Conference Zurich 2011
Keynote Speaker, American College Dance Festival Association Weber University Utah 2010
Featured Speaker – PopTech! 2007, Camden, ME
Panelist - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Motion Studies/Street Performance/New Media 2001
Keynote Speaker - Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2000
Training and Performances on Art and Disability Culture, United States Information Agency
Lecture – National Dance Association Conference, Boston, MA
Lecture/Video/Performance - American Cultural Specialist Program-Education, Novgorod and Moscow
University Lectures/Performance
Wheaton College, Norton, MA ● New York University, New York, NY ● Pratt University, Brooklyn, NY ● Eastern Connecticut State University ● Hampshire College, Amherst, MA ● Rice University, Houston, TX ● University of Oregon Arts and Accessibility Conference, Boston, MA ● University of Oregon, Eugene, OR ● Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA ● University of Iowa, Chicago, IL
Education
BFA, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1996
