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David Shull (b. 1978, Fountain Valley, CA) is a Los

Angeles-based artist and musician.  His work in

sculpture, painting, collage, assemblage, video, and

song confront a wide array of topics harnessing

distinct and intuitive codified language. 

Shull’s serial practice mines formal systems and

sentimentalities to explore modernist art historical

themes as iconography in a social narrative that

confronts bias surrounding ideasof beauty and

meaning in art.

David’s work walks a fine line between humor and

deep emotion.  Shull’s approach focuses a tenuous

fragility into concrete and forceful statements that

utilize the sum of their parts towards etherial conclusions

around production, finish, narrative, and commentary.

Shull earned a MA in biology from University of

California, Santa Cruz in 2001, and an MFA in painting

from the Pratt Institute in 2004.  For the next 12 years,

he remained in New York, during which time Shull

exhibited and performed in numerous artist-run project

spaces, music venues, and apartment galleries. 

Notable solo and group exhibitions include

Family Feud / Being Wrong, NOON Projects,

Los Angeles (2023); David Hammons, Hauser &

Wirth, Los Angeles (2019); Hostel, Richard Telles

Window Project, Los Angeles (2018); Language

curated by Adam Marnie, Los Angeles Water School

(LAWS), Los Angeles (2018); and Mending Wall

curated by Alexis Rose, The Pit, Los Angeles (2014).