CANADA 2009
xerox and ink on paper 11x8inches
UNTITLED BLACK SHAPE 2009
ballpoint pen and ink on paper 14x11inches
HAND OVER HEAD ON RAFT 2009
xerox on ballpoint pen and ink on paper 24x17inches
UNTITLED 2009
ballpoint pen, pencil and ink on paper 14x11inches
MOHAWK 2009
ballpoint pen and ink on paper 14x11inches
ROUGES 2009
ballpoint pen and ink on paper 14x11inches
Keep Six Gallery Toronto, Canada 2008
Receiver Gallery San Francisco, California 2007
SHADWBOXING 2009
24 page zine
UPSIDE DOWN GIRL 2009
12 page zine
Bust 2007
1 page fold-out
zines for sale and trade
contact: shawnkuruneru@hotmail.com
click links to see more work:
White Columns
Drawing Center
Border Crossings
Artforum
Tokion
Printed Matter
Hearty
Art Metropole
Eat Wet Records
born in Toronto, Canada lives and works in Newmarket.
Solo Exhibitions:
2008
435 Broadway, Brooklyn, New York, “DW.NLB”
Keep Six Gallery, Toronto, Ontario “Twenty-three”
2007
Receiver Gallery, San Francisco, California, “Rapture Vs. Rupture”
2006
VA Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, “Never-Weres”
2005
Nota Bene, Montreal, Quebec, "Black Sheep - White Smoke"
Select Group Exhibitions
2009
C.R.E.A.M. Projects, Greenpoint, New York, "Whitney's Biennial"
Asian Song Society, Manhattan, New York, "Group Show"
HKJB, Brooklyn, New York, "Personal Abstraction"
Printed Matter, Manhattan, New York, "One Size Fits All"
2008
Division Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, “Images of Romantic Distress and Consolation”
Art Metropole, Toronto, Ontario, “Gifts by artists”
205 29th St, Manhattan, New York, “Eat Wet Records” (with Bozidar Brazda)
2007
Le Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, “Shangri-Lost” (with Jesse Harris and Jimmy Limit)
2006
MarkJames, Brooklyn, New York, "Revised Library of Yet to be Classic Volumes" (curated by Ryan Foerster)
Common Ground, Windsor, Ontario, Paper Machete (curated by Mark Laliberte)
Gladstone, Toronto, Ontario, Young Artist Showcase
2005
Galerie Accidentelle, Montreal, Quebec "Alcoholocaust" (with Luke Painter)
Select Publications
2009
"Six Heurs Vingt" Enroute Air Canada Magazine, Montreal, Quebec, March
"Interview" Hearty Magazine, Manhattan, New York, by Hana May, May, No.2
2008
“Etc. Girls” Neue Probleme, Berlin, Germany, by Elizabeth Moch, August No. 3
“Shawn Kuruneru” Color Magazine, Vancouver, British Columbia, by Nick Brown, July No. 6.3
“Zines” The Journal, New York, NY, No.XXI
2007
"Shawn Kuruneru - Mega Zines" Border Crossings, Winnipeg, Ontario by Robert Enright, December, No.104
“Azabache.” The Believer, San Francisco, Califronia, edited by Andrew Leland, May No. 47
"The Strange World of Canadian Artist Shawn Kuruneru." Tokion, New York, NY by Maxwell Williams, March No.57
"Critics' Pick: Shangri-Lost." Artforum.com, by Jennifer Allen, February
2006
“zine review.” Broken Pencil, Toronto, Ontario, by Sarah Evans No. 35
“Teenagers Mind” Walrus Magazine, Toronto, Ontario
“Skunks” Ascent Magazine, Montreal, Quebec
