Shannon Finnegan

A white person with shoulder-length, blonde hair looking directly at the camera. They’re wearing a wood grain sweatshirt and pant set. The sweatshirt has contrasting sleeves with a squiggle pattern and sleeve cuffs in two different colors. There are rocks and foliage out-of-focus in the background.
Caption: Photo credit: Jordan Kirk. Courtesy of Shannon Finnegan.
Image Description: A white person with shoulder-length, blonde hair looking directly at the camera. They’re wearing a wood grain sweatshirt and pant set. The sweatshirt has contrasting sleeves with a squiggle pattern and sleeve cuffs in two different colors. There are rocks and foliage out-of-focus in the background.

Shannon Finnegan is a multidisciplinary artist. Some of their recent work includes Anti-Stairs Club Lounge, an ongoing project that gathers people together who share an aversion to stairs; Alt-Text as Poetry, a collaboration with Bojana Coklyat that explores the expressive potential of image description; and Do You Want Us Here or Not, a series of benches designed for exhibition spaces. Their work has been supported by a 2018 Wynn Newhouse Award, a 2019 residency at Eyebeam, and a 2020 grant from Art Matters Foundation.

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