Shannon Cartier Lucy

Shannon Cartier Lucy was born in 1977, in Nashville, Tennessee, where she currently lives and works.


With a career of endless experimentation spanning over twenty years, Shannon Cartier Lucy is one of the most celebrated figurative painters working today.


Raised in an unconventional context with a schizophrenic father, Cartier Lucy paints seemingly ordinary and familiar scenes in a realistic style that also appear alienating for their surreal details, poses and composition.


Through her paintings, Shannon Cartier Lucy explores the concept of body and expresses the clear and melancholic domestic reality and its feeling of solitude and nostalgia; the bodies are faceless and their actions are set in situations violent and intriguing at the same time. What appears familiar transforms to become the lead to another level of narrative, suggesting confusion of information.


Cartier Lucy infuses her painting with uncanny and impossible situations that become a new normality in her work. The artist is a cantor of the inner world; her practice can be seen as a mirror of a dystopic society, whether intentional or accidental, reflecting a sociocultural landscape filled with hallucinatory and contradictory information.

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Biography

Solo exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2024
F, Silver Bells and Cockle Shells, Galerie Hussenot, Paris
2023
USA, Rubedo, Night Gallery, Los Angeles
2022
I, The secret ingredient è la morte, MASSIMODECARLO, Milano
2021
PRC, A stapled glass, MASSIMODECARLO, Hong Kong
USA, The Loo Table, Lubov, New York
UK, Cake on the Floor, Soft Opening, London
2020
USA, Home is a crossword puzzle I can’t solve, Lubov, New York
F, Fooled again, Galerie Hussenot, Paris
USA, The Ever-Flashing Strap, Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami
USA, Woman with a Machete, De Boer Gallery, Los Angeles
2007
USA, No Dancing, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York
2006
USA, I Am a Child, My Heart is Pure Amen, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York
Group exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2024
D, Eccentric: Aesthetics of freedom, Pinakothek der Moderne | Art, Monaco
2021
I, Bodywork: Discomfort and Existence, MASSIMODECARLO, Milano
2020
USA, Nothing but (Flowers), Karma, New York
UK, Eigenheim, Soft Opening, London
2019
USA, NADA Miami, Lubov, Miami
USA, Vernacular Environment, Part 3, Edward Cella Art and Architecture, Los Angeles
2009
USA, No Applause, Kathleen Cullen Gallery, New York
2008
USA, Bad Thoughts, David Gallery, Nashville
2000
USA, 3 Person Group Show, Team Gallery, New York

Bibliography

Year
Author, Publication Title, Date
2021
Tenaglia, Francesco, il Foglio, April

Public collections

Country
Location
United States of America
Orange County Museum, Santa Ana

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