*amiskwacîwâskahikan / Edmonton, Treaty 6, Canada
Works between Berlin & Edmonton
2021
BPA// Berlin program for artists, Berlin
2016
Master of Fine Arts, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
2015
Master of Fine Arts (guest), Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam
2013
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Emily Carr University, Vancouver
Solo & two person exhibitions
2023
The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (forthcoming)
Wschód, Warsaw (forthcoming)
Towards, Toronto (forthcoming)
Towards for NADA (w. Ted Gahl), New York City
2022
Neither Parts, nor Spares, BPA// Raum, Berlin
2021
What Time Has Left, Wschód, Warsaw
Wschód for Liste (w. Anders Dickson), Basel
2020
Memory Loss - Drakken II, Coyote, Stockholm
2018
Can There Be Forgiveness?, Ashley, Berlin
Pledge, Sox Galeri, Berlin
F-150, Polansky Gallery, Prague
Benevolent Nerves, Galerija 427, Riga
2017
Vinegar Stone & The Language of Flowers, Towards, Toronto
2016
Undilutable Slang Truth, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm
2015
Internal Climates (w. Emma LaMorte), Sunset Terrace, Vancouver
Selected group exhibitions
2023
Echo, Cologne (forthcoming)
Infinity of Unidentified Objects, ETH Zürich, Zürich (forthcoming)
Warsaw Spring, Wschód, Warsaw
2022
Set Phosphenes, Studio for Artistic Research, Düsseldorf
2021
BPA// Exhibition 2021, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Casa Uovo, Sangt Hipolyt, Berlin
The Forage, Æ, Berlin
Vigil, Wschód w. Emanuel Layr, Warsaw
2020
Condo London, Union Pacific w. Wschód & Et al., London
This is Fair, Wschód for NADA
2019
But Doctor, I am Pagliacci (w. Zoe Barcza & Alexandra Metcalf), The Loon, Toronto
Uttran II, Uttran Lake, Ronninge, Stockholm
Schrein der Freundschaft, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam e.V., Potsdam
2018
Clerks' Quarters II - Lite REO (feat. Acting Press), Ashley, Berlin
Clerks' Quarters (feat. Angharad Williams & Economy of Meaning),
Pogo Bar, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin
Don't Come In, Winterfeldtstrasse 31, Berlin
At the End of the Game You Will Be Forgotten, Alyssa Davis Gallery, New York City
In Commerce Court, Main Street, Toronto
Jugend ist Trunkenheit Ohne Wein, Bikini Space, Basel
2017
Let’s see, where were we? In the pit of despair, De Ateliers, Amsterdam
Gabinete De Moda, Gabinete, Lisbon
Kamias Triennial, Kamias Special Projects, Kamias City
Grounds for Magical Thinking, J Hammond Projects, London
Period Pieces (A Sunset Terrace Retrospective), Projet Pangée, Montreal
2016
Peach, W139, Amsterdam
Dinner Room Terravore, Oslo10, Basel
The First Story Ever Told, Krets, Malmö
Navigating. Items for a place without historical centre, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Life ist Life Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Berlin, Garret Grimoire, Berlin
Collect Yourself, Royal Institute of Art at Sergelgatan 8-10, Stockholm
2015
Veins of Gypsum Mortar (curated in collaboration w. Viktor Briestensky), Ashley, Berlin
Performance Proletarians, Andquestionmark, Stockholm
2013
A Presentation of FAQs, Other Projects, Berlin
Retail Merchandise Unit (w. Iselin Toubro & Emma LaMorte), Dynamo Arts Association, Vancouver
Bibliography
2022
Mitch Speed, Ghosts in Plain Sight, BPA// Raum
Krzysztof Kościuczuk, Adam Shiu-Yang Shaw’s Impossible Objects, Frieze Issue 225
Camila McHugh, Adam Shiu-Yang Shaw at Wschód - Critics' Picks, Artforum
Kate Brown, Time Is the Ultimate Abrasive, Mousse Magazine Issue 78
2021
Mitch Speed, Soft Vertigo, BPA// Exhibition Catalogue w/ KW Institute for Contemporary Art
2020
Elizabeth Renzetti, Why Canadian Artists are Flourishing in Berlin, The Globe and Mail
2018
Vivien Trommer, Highlight 8-12 Ashley Berlin, Kuba Paris
Alexandra Symons Sutcliffe, Letters from Berlin, Art Monthly Magazine, Issue 421
Monopol Magazine, Special Issue - Berlin Art Week 2018
2017
Adam Shiu-Yang Shaw’s ‘vinegar stone and the language of flowers’ feels the need to not need anything more at Towards Gallery, AQNB
2016
Katia Miroff, Livets hårda skola, Nordisk Kunstkritikk
2015
Tiffin Breen, Adam Shiu-Yang Shaw, Blue Moon Magazine, Issue 2
2014
Dustin Brons, A Collaborative Enterprise, Bartelby Review, Issue 15
Lectures, teaching and mentorships
2023
city limits, Lecture at Städelschule, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt
2022
Guest-mentor for BPA//Berlin program for artists, Berlin
2021
splinters - BPA// Talks 6, Lecture at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2019
Student traineeship, École européenne supérieure de l’image (Angoulême, France) - Erasmus Plus, Berlin
Residencies & workshops
2016
Summer Symposium, Sikås Art Center, Sikås
2015
Nomadic Duchamp (w. Hinrich Sachs & Lisi Raskin), The Tyler School, Philadelphia
The Institute of Investigative Living (w. Andrea Zittel & James Trainor), A-Z West, Joshua Tree
2013
The Future Is Coming Every Day (w. Elizabeth Zvonar), Artscape Gibraltor Point, Toronto