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 Columbia, Canada) lives and works in Montréal. Her work was most recently the subject of the major solo exhibition Erin Shirreff: Permanent Drafts at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin (2025). Shirreff’s monumental sculpture Dusk Form is currently on public view as part of Sculpture Milwaukee’s Actual Fractals, Act III presentation. Other recent solo exhibitions include Erin Shirreff: Folded stone, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico (2024); Erin Shirreff: Remainders, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts (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, New York (formerly the Albright-Knox Art Gallery) and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2015-16). 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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