Shannon Ebner

Shannon Ebner is an American artist based in Los Angeles. She was born in Englewood, New Jersey. Ebner's artwork takes the form of photographs and poems that question the limits and ambiguity of language.

Ebner received her BA degree from Bard College in 1993. Before she entered Yale University in 1997, she stopped her photographic practice to focus more on her work as a poet. She participated in the St. Mark's Poetry Project in New York and worked for the writer Eileen Myles. Although Ebner is no longer a poet, she takes her inspiration from poems and looks for ways to include poetry within her photographic work. She graduated from Yale in 2000.

From 2010 to 2018, Ebner taught the University of Southern California's Roski School of Art and Design. In 2018 she was named chair of Pratt Institute's photography department.

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