Bill Shannon
Bill Shannon is an American artist who resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Shannon holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Born with a degenerative hip condition, he developed a way to express himself through dance and skateboarding on crutches.
Performances
Performances and video work include:- Kaaitheater, Brussels
- Performance Space 122, NYC
- The Kitchen, NYC
- Sydney Opera House Studio Theater, Australia
- Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
- danceAble, Florida Dance Festival and Tigertail, Miami
- Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, OR
- Central Park SummerStage, NYC
- Dance City, Newcastle, England
- Contact Theater, Manchester, England
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
- Arizona State University, Tempe
- The Exit Festival, Cretiel, France
- Amman International Festival of Independent Theater, Amman, Jordan
- Holland Festival, Amsterdam
- Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland
- URB Festival, Helsinki
- Melbourne Fringe Festival
- Teatro de la Ciudad in Monterrey, Mexico
- "Work It Out" music video by RJD2
- 'Life flows better' Visa advert,
His visual and multimedia art have been exhibited in contemporary museums, galleries and fairs include:
- ArtDC in Washington, DC
- Kiasma
- Helsinki Museum of Contemporary Art in Finland
- Tate in Liverpool, England
- Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
Awards
- Dance Magazine's "25 to Watch" in 2001
- John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003
- Grants to Artists award
- Colbert Award for Excellence: The Downtown Arts Projects Emerging Arts Award
- Pennsylvania Council of the Arts Interdisciplinary Arts Fellowship
- Wynn Newhouse Award in 2010
Grants
- National Endowment for the Arts
- the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts
- Jerome Foundation
- New York Foundation for the Arts
- New York State Council for the Arts
- James E. Robison Foundation
- Bossak-Heilbron Charitable Foundation
- The Harkness Foundation for Dance
- Arts International: The Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals.
Competitions
- 2000: Mantis Battle in NYC; placed second in ProAms Florida
- 2002: Most Creative Street Dancer by the LA Urban Dance Festival.