SHANNON BONO
(b.1995, London, UK)
Lives and works in London, UK
E: Bono-art@hotmail.com @Bonosart_
[EDUCATION]
Royal College of Art, MA Painting, 2024
University of the Arts London, Associate Fellow (AFHEA), 2021
Central Saint Martins, MA Art & Science, 2019
University of Essex, BSc Biochemistry, 2016
[AWARDS/RESIDENCIES]
2023 Sir Frank Bowling Painting scholarship
2022 New Contemporaries x Elephant lab digital residency
2022 OOF Gallery studio residency
2021 Bloomberg New Contemporaries
2021/2022 Studio residency, Anderson Contemporary, London
2020 Painting tutor residency, The Koppel Project Campus, London
2019/20 Studio residency, Sarabande: The Lee Alexander McQueen Foundation, London
2019 Studio residency, PLOP, London
[SOLO EXHIBITIONS]
2021
The hands that hold you, Anderson Contemporary, London
[GROUP EXHIBITIONS]
2024
Stretching the light, Rele Gallery, London
Royal Academy of Art Graduate show, Royal Academy of Art, London
Windrush: Portraits of a pioneering Generation, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Earth Monsters, Sarabande the Lee Alexander McQueen Foundation, London
Floating in Place, Affinty Art Gallery, Lagos
ANTHROPOS, Chilli Art Projects, London
2023
Hold Me Now, Ione & Mann Gallery, London
Windrush: Portraits of a pioneering Generation, National Portrait Gallery, London
Like Paradise, Claridge’s Art Space x Wick Culture, London
Foundations (Artsy online art fair), Art Powher Contemporary
Windrush: Portraits of a pioneering Generation, Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh
Tangle Teaser, Sarabande the Lee Alexander McQueen Foundation, London
Manifold Deluxe, FF Projects, London
RHIZOME, Ione & Mann Gallery, london
2022
Collectivist, Copeland Gallery, London
The Expanse in between, Grove Collective, London
Summer exhibition, OOF Gallery, London
Analogous, Daniel Benjamin Gallery, London
Summer Season: Group A, OOF Gallery, London
The Red Room, Cromwell Place, Berntson Bhattacharjee Gallery
Love is the Devil: Studies after Francis Bacon, Marlborough Gallery, London
2021
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021, South London Gallery, London
Reflections Part 1: Female figures by Women Artists, Workplace gallery, London
BOLD BLACK BRITISH, Christies, London
The Artists Oracle, White Crypt project space, London
Reclaiming Magic RA Summer exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2020
Stall, Sarabande The Lee Alexander McQueen Foundation, London
Live Flesh, Sarabande The Lee Alexander McQueen Foundation, London
2019
The Colour of Pain, Imperial Collage London, London
Black History Month, Keele University, Newcastle
Sound::Gender::Feminism::Activism (SGFA), Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
The State of Things, Copeland Gallery, London
Flock (Graduate exhibition), Buday gallery, London
Tate Exchange: Art and activism, Tate Modern, London
Black Bodies Brown parasites, Central Saint Martins, London
Intersect, London School of Economics, London
Xhibit, Koppel Project Central Gallery, London
Rift, MA Art and Science degree show Central Saint Martins, London
2018
Black Bodies Brown parasites, London Collage of Fashion, London
Black History Month, Copeland Gallery, London
Normal to Dissent, Windows gallery Central Saint Martins, London
Appetite, Apiary Studios, London
Open dialogue, Central Saint Martin’s, London
Tate Exchange: Studio complex, Tate Modern, London
[SPECIAL PROJECTS]
The Hands That Hold You, Mural, Meta Open Arts, London
Women of Westminster, Artist globe, The World Reimagined, London
[TEACHING]
(2021- Present) Associate Lecture, Camberwell College of Arts, BA Fine Art: Painting, London, UK
(2020 - Present) Associate Lecturer, Central Saint Martins, MA Art and Science, London, UK
(2020) Associate Lecturer, London College of Communication, BA Design Management and Cultures, London, UK
[PRESS/MEDIA]
https://thewickculture.com/spotlight-visual-artist-shannon-bono/
https://www.wallpaper.com/art/exhibitions-shows/tangle-teaser-sarabande-foundation-london
https://www.showstudio.com/news/new-exhibition-sarabande-celebrates-womanhood
https://www.missionmag.org/shannon-bono/
https://www.lux-mag.com/ekow-eshun-on-curating-art-shows-with-an-impact/
https://www.madeinbed.co.uk/reviews/a-war-with-no-winner
https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/earth-monsters-sarabande-women-artists
https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/people/040921/advocacy-for-black-womens-well-being-blends-scien
https://avantarte.com/insights/articles/we-are-history
https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/90873/page/111