Shaun Gladwell (b. 1972, Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian contemporary artist who works in the fields of painting, drawing, photography, moving image, performance and extended reality. Gladwell received a first class honours degree from Sydney College of the Arts and an MA from the UNSW College of Fine Arts before undertaking postgraduate associate research at Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2000–1 on a Samstag Scholarship.
Gladwell has been the subject of numerous solo institutional exhibitions including: Shaun Gladwell: Pacific Undertow, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), Sydney, 2019; 1000 Horses, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, 2017; Skaters versus Minimalismo, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno CAAM, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, 2017; Cycles of Radical Will, De La Warr Pavilion, East Sussex, United Kingdom, 2013; Perpetual 360° Sessions, SCHUNCK* Heerlen, The Netherlands, 2011; and MADDESTMAXIMVS: Planet & Stars Sequence, Australian Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, 2009.
Recent group exhibitions include: Free/State, Adelaide Biennial, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2022; Hyper Real, National Gallery of Australia, 2017; Interior and the Collectors, La Biennale de Lyon, 2015; VIDEONALE.15, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, 2015; 2014 Busan Biennale, MoCA Busan, 2014; California-Pacific Triennial, Orange County Museum,
California, 2013; and Walking Sideways, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2013.
