LYRIC SHEN

Born 1993 in Goleta, CA, lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

Education

2022 MFA Cranbrook University, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Solo - and Two Person Exhibitions

2025
There is an occlusion, Silke Lindner, New York 

2023
Petal, with Misa Cchan, Et al., San Francisco, CA 
Promise’s Room, Silke Lindner, New York, NY

2022
Biscuit, Canada, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026 DIVINE HEAVY, ILY2, Portland, OR

2025
From Being Jealous of a Dog’s Vein, Kiang Malingue, New York, NY Best Of, Silke Lindner, New York, NY Human Marks, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT Stilllife, Stillife, New York, NY

2024
Contemporary Fossil Record, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY
SL X RE, Rose Easton, London, UK

2023
fuckgirl collapse, Room 3557, Los Angeles, CA
In Summer’s Teeth, Silke Lindner, New York, NY

2022
JUNK IS NO GOOD BABY, Silke Lindner, New York, NY
Feed the Nest, Adobe Books, San Francisco, CA
Reciprocity, Marinaro, New York, NY  
Hanky, Lowell, Portland, OR

2021
Jupiter Finger, Harkawik, Los Angeles, CA

2020
Ox, Child, & the River, Delaplane, San Francisco, CA
Terra Firma, Murmurs Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Snuffing the Rooster, 8 Palms, Los Angeles, CA

2019
Favorite Melody, Karma International, Los Angeles, CA
Tempt Fest: Queer Erotic Film Festival Art Queen, Joshua Tree, CA
Wall Sits Accompanying Exhibition, Organized by Diamond Stingily Kunstverein München, Munich
My Wishing Well, Cone Shape Top Center for Arts and Music, Emeryville, CA

2018
Ancestral Recall, dA Center for the Arts, Pomona, CA
All About Love, Public Pool Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Joint Effort, 4WS, Los Angeles, CA

2017
Tempt Fest: Queer Erotic Film Festival, NAVEL, Los Angeles, CA

Press

2025 Leo Cocar, Membrane as Ledger. Lyric Shen. Flash Art

2023 Esra Canoğulları, Surface Tensions: Lyric Shen’s Hybrid Practice, Cult Classics
Lyric Shen: Promise’s Room at Silke Lindner, reviewed in Cultbytes
Studio visit with Lyric Shen on Dizzy TV

2022
Devan Díaz, Interview with Lyric Shen, Foundwork Dialogues

2020
Kat Herriman, Cultured Editors Like: August Has Us Thinking About Green Expanses and Bugged OutCeramics, Cultured Magazine