Shannon Wright is a sculptor and installation artist based in San Jose, California. Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Wright grew up chiefly in Sydney, Australia, and then spent her formative years among the iron trestle bridges and turn-of-the-last-century hydroelectric power plants and foundries of Richmond, Virginia. Wright earned her BFA in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University, and her MFA in Time Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a Professor of Spatial Art at San Jose State University.

Shannon Wright has a longstanding fascination with modular systems and articulated connections. In the past decade, she has created her own “ruins” and monuments in reaction to a society whose mercantile logic never ceases to disorient her. Wright is represented by ADA Gallery in Richmond, Virginia. She has exhibited at Mulherin-Pollard Projects in New York; Untitled Art, Miami, and Scope Miami, New York and London, among other venues. She is a 2016 Silicon Valley Creates Artist Laureate, and a recipient of a 2019-2020 Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Assigned Time Award from San José State University.