Shaun Gladwell critically and poetically links personal experience with contemporary culture and historical references through performance, video, painting and sculpture. Gladwell’s works engage these concerns through forms of urban expression such as skateboarding, hip-hop, graffiti, BMX bike riding and break-dancing.
Shaun Gladwell / Artist biography
Gladwell has been selected to represent Australia at the Biennale of Venice 2009 with his work MADDESTMAXIMVS. 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.
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Gladwell’s work has been exhibited in major national and international exhibitions, including the 52nd International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale: Think with the senses, feel with the mind – art in the present tense; (27th) Bienal de Sao Paulo, How to Live Together, Brazil; Busan Biennale: Everywhere, both 2006; Wave Front: Australian Contemporary Art Scene, Tokyo Wonder Site, 2006-07; Collezione #2, Brancolini Grimaldi Arte Contemporaneo, Rome, 2007; Living the City, Platform21, Amsterdam; and Space for Your Future, curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. Gladwell will also be presenting work at the 2008 Biennale of Sydney and the 2008-09 Taipei Biennial.
