Shannon Bool, born in Canada in 1972, has lived and worked in Germany since 2001. Her work is currently on display in the exhibition Magnificent Transmutations at St. Peter’s Church in Cologne. Her works are held in renowned museum collections including the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Kunstmuseum Bonn; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; Lenbachhaus, Munich; and the National Gallery of Canada. In Cologne, her site-specific Kunst am Bau mosaic The Glass Curtain was recently unveiled at the Cologne Opera, and she was  recently awarded the Kunst am Bau competition for the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is currently presenting works by Bool as part of its permanent collection. Recent solo exhibitions were dedicated to Bool at the Kunstmuseum Krefeld, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (both 2023), Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston (2020), the Kunstverein Braunschweig, Centre Culturel Canadien in Paris (both 2019) and Musée Joliette Canada (2018). She participated in numerous internationally renowned group exhibitions such as “Skyscrapers by the Roots. Reflections on Late Modernism”, MAC – Musée d’art contemporain, Montréal, CA (2025), “In anderen Händen. Highlights of the Philara Collection”, Miettinen Collection, Berlin, „Räume Hautnah“, Draiflessen Collection, Mettingen, DE (2024), “Infinite Regress: Mystical Abstraction from the Permanent Collection and Beyond”, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas and “Dreams of an Owl, Who the Bær and the Wounded Planet. Stories from the collection of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld and an intervention by Simon Fujiwara”, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, DE, among others.