ERIN SHIRREFF
B. 1975
Erin Shirreff’s diverse body of work, which includes photography, video, and sculpture, is united by her interest in the ways we experience three-dimensional forms in an age in which our perception is almost invariably mediated by still and moving images. Her work explores the gap between objects and their representations, and the materials (and materiality) of image-making.
Erin Shirreff (born 1975, British Colombia, Canada) lives and works in Montréal. Notable solo exhibitions of her work include Erin Shirreff: Folded stone, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM (2024); Erin Shirreff: Remainders, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA (2021–22); New Work: Erin Shirreff, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2019); Erin Shirreff: Halves and Wholes, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2016); and a survey exhibition that traveled to the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, NY (formerly the Albright-Knox Art Gallery) and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2015-16). A solo exhibition of her work will open at the Milwaukee Art Museum in Spring 2025, and a major monograph, published by Gregory Miller, is forthcoming next year.
Shirreff’s work is found in the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Nouveau Musée National de Monaco; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, among others. Shirreff was an artist-in-residence at the Chinati Foundation (2011), and Artpace in San Antonio (2013), and is the recipient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant. She earned an MFA in sculpture from Yale University in 2005.
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