Education

University of California, Irvine, MFA, 2020

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, MFA Candidate, 2014-15

Glasgow School of Art, BA Hons (First Class) in Sculpture, Glasgow, Scotland, 2012

Solo and Duo Exhibitions

2024

stuff, Wonnerth Dejaco, Vienna, Austria

Plaza, Timeshare, Los Angeles, CA

2023

Plastic, plastic, plastic, Mak Center for Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA

2022

Open Arm for Other Places Art Fair, San Pedro, CA

2021

Georg Petermichl & Ellen Schafer, Artissima Art Fair w/Galerie Wonnerth Dejaco, Turin, Italy

Nickelodeon Universe, Galerie Wonnerth Dejaco, Vienna, Austria

Simplicity, New Low & The Fulcrum, both Los Angeles, CA 

2020

Adult Costume, UAG Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA

2018

You’re Fierce. You’re Perfect. You Slay., New Jörg, Vienna, Austria 

2016

I Reach Out and Touch Another, curated by Anne Luther, Elijah Wheat Showroom, Brooklyn, NY

XXS, XS, S, M, L, XL, XXL, curated by IUD, Helmuth Projects, San Diego, CA

2013

Palpable Flesh, CirkulationsCentralen, Malmö, Sweden

Black Sun, OK Corral, Copenhagen, Denmark 

2012

Conditional Love, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland

Things that Touch, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland

2011

Art is Hard, Vic Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

The Mountain Outside Our Window, curated by Katharina Hoglinger, Wonnerth Dejaco, Vienna, Austria

Loose Ends/Unerledigte Dinge, Modest Common, Los Angeles, CA

2021

City/La Ville, Chez Anonyme, Los Angeles, CA

2020

Cerebro con Huevo, co-curated by Offshore Projects & New Jörg, Bikini Wax, Mexico City, MX

2019

Wooba presents The 2015 Honda Fit, Wooba, Austin, TX

San Marino Health Lab, Dread Lounge, Los Angeles, CA

Spa Day, UAG Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA

2018

Ordination, curated by Sophie Tappeiner Gallery & Kerstin von Gabain, Vienna, Austria

Abode Gallery, Other Places Art Fair, Los Angeles at Angels Gate Arts Center, San Pedro, CA

Belt Friction, curated by Arden Surdan, Kopeiken Gallery, Los Angeles, CA,

All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA

2016

This Psychodrama, curated by Morgan Mandalay, SME Gallery, UCSD, San Diego, CA

Figure as Form, curated by Katie Bode, ltd Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Pleasure Principle, Actual Size, Los Angeles, CA

No! I Am Not a Singular Instrument, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA

[We] once became a [cloud] that drove each and every one of [my clouds] outside, then played, Actual Size, Los Angeles, CA

2015

Tanya Brodsky, Sofia Londono, Ellen Schafer, SPF 15, San Diego, CA

Being With People, Shanaynay, Paris, France

Recesses, Park View/Paul Soto, Los Angeles, CA

2012

New Firm, Candid Arts Trust, London, England

Selected Bibliography

2021 

Ellen Schafer at Wonnerth Dejaco, Art Viewer, November 22, 2021, https://artviewer.org/ellen-schafer-at-wonnerth-dejaco/

Ellen Schafer at Wonnerth Dejaco, yyyymmdd_contemporary, https://www.instagram.com/p/CWu11lDoKXY/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D

Ellen Schafer at New Low and The Fulcrum Press / Los Angeles, The Daily Lazy, https://www.daily-lazy.com/2021/08/ellen-schafer-at-new-low-and-fulcrum.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/VmwFR+(dailylazy)&m=1

Ellen Schafer, Artforum’s Must See: Simplicity at New Low, Artforum, https://www.artforum.com/artguide/new-low-20900/simplicity-194187

Ellen Schafer, Adult Costume at UAG Gallery, Kuba Paris, https://kubaparis.com/archive/adult-costume

‘Art, play & a perpetual seat at the kids’ table in the tongue-in-cheek installations of Ellen Schafer’, AQNB, August 2021 

Kristopher Gee, ‘Gallery Weekend LA celebrates city’s diverse art community with first-ever five-day event’, Spectrum News 1, Los Angeles, CA, July 29, 2021

2018

Jeanne Dreskin, ‘All Hands on Deck’, Artforum, February 2018

Anna Garner, ‘Kopeiken Gallery: Belt Friction’, Artillery Magazine, February 2018

Perwana Nazif, ‘Artist Run: Living Rooms And Parked Cars At The Other Places Art Fair’, The Quietus, February 2018

2016

Angella d’Avignon, ‘Figure as Form at ltd Los Angeles’, Carla, September 2016

ED Noice, ‘Picking Through Gold Press’ Pleasure Principle’, AQNB, August 2016

Kate Messinger, ‘No, I Am Not a Singular Instrument’, Paper Magazine, July 2016

Catherine Wagely, ‘No, I Am Not a Singular Instrument’, LA Weekly, June 2016

Aria Dean, ‘No, I Am Not a Singular Instrument’, Artforum, June 2016

Paris LA: 14, Art Education, ‘The Class That Got Away’, Paris LA, Winter 2016

2015

Jan Tumlir, ‘Recesses’, Artforum, November 2015

Awards/Residencies

2021

Styria Artist in Residence Scholarship, Graz, Austria 

2017

Emerging Artist Grant Nominee, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Los Angeles, CA

Publications

2016

Pleasure Principle, Collaborative Flux Box, Gold Editions