Presented by the Department of Art at Rice University, with series support from the Department of Art History and the MFAH Glassell School of Art Core Program, with lecture support from the Rice School of Architecture, the Department of English and Creative Writing, and the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.

Shannon Ebner
Thursday, November 13
6:00 PM Reception
6:30 PM Lecture
Pitman Cinema Theatre, Sarofim Hall
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Shannon Ebner’s conceptually driven practice explores the visual, material and temporal circumstances of language using photographic means. In addition to exhibitions, Ebner makes books. Ebner’s recent show “THE SEAWEED SYNTHESIZER” at kaufmann repetto, New York was accompanied by the publication SUBSOUND (Apogee Graphics, Los Angeles), a call-and-response public communication: SEE EAR SEA HEAR. NOISE IS NOISE. & SOUND UND SOUND. TIMBER, TIMBRE. 

Shannon Ebner’s work has been exhibited widely in the United States and Europe, and is included in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Bard Hessel Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Ebner’s work has also been included in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Tate Modern, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Moscow Museum of Modern Art; Presentation House, Vancouver; and Künstlerhaus Austria. 

 

Shannon Ebner, Radial Sand Track, 2025, archival pigment print, 14 x 14 inches, courtesy of the artist.
Radial Sand Track, 2025, archival pigment print, 14 x 14 inches, courtesy of the artist.

 

Shannon Ebner, stray: a graphic tone, 2018
stray: a graphic tone, 2018, readings by poets Susan Howe and Nathaniel Mackey, editing & production by Shannon Ebner
Installation image from Shannon Ebner: A Pattern to the Letter in Athens, Greece, 2017
Installation image from Shannon Ebner: A Pattern to the Letter in Athens, Greece, 2017

Visiting Artist Lecture Series promotional poster for Shannon Ebner



The 2025-26 Visiting Artist Lecture Series is presented by the Department of Art at Rice University, with series support from the Department of Art History and the MFAH Glassell School of Art Core Program, with lecture support from the Rice School of Architecture, the Department of English and Creative Writing, and the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.

All lectures are free and open to the public. 
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