Sean Scully

(American/Irish, born 1945)

untitled (8.17.93) by sean scully

Sean Scully

Untitled (8.17.93), 1993

Price on Request

Biography

Timeline

1945
Born in Dublin, Ireland
1949
Family moved to London, England
1965 - 1968
Studied at Croydon College of Art, London, England
1968 - 1972
Studied at Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
1972 - 1973
Studied at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
1973 - 1975
Taught at Chelsea School of Art and Goldsmiths' School of Art, London, England
1975
Moved to USA
1977 - 1983
Taught at Princeton University
1983
Received Guggenheim Fellowship
Became American citizen

Exhibitions

2015
Palazzo Falier, Venice, Italy (solo)
Sean Scully: Land | Sea, Palazzo Falier, Venice, Italy (solo)
Sean Scully: Landline, Cheim & Read, New York (solo)
Sean Scully. Moving or profound or necessary or beautiful, Pinacoteca do Estado and Centro Universitário Maria Antonia, São Paulo, Brazil (solo)
Carinthia, Museum Liaunig, Neuhas, Austria (solo)
Sean Scully, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland (solo)
Monastery of St. Cecília de Montserrat, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
Different Places, Château La Coste en Provence, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France (solo)
Kewenig Galerie, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (solo)

Public Collections

Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Boston Massachusetts, USA
Museo de Arte Moderno, Col. Bosques de Chaultepec, Mexico
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas, Venezuela
BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Arts Council of Great Britain, London, UK
Grafische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Literature

2009
Sean Scully, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings, to be published by IThe Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth with Thames & Hudson
2008
Unique Act, Five abstract painters: Frederic Matys Thursz, Sean Scully, Carmengloria Morales, Sean Shanahan, Ruth Root, Dublin: Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane in association with Lund Humphries
2007
Sean Scully – Walls of Aran, photographs by Sean Scully, text by Colm Tóibín and Sean Scully, published by Thames & Hudson
Glorious Dust, by Sean Scully, essays by Arthur C. Danto, to be published by Steidl
Prints Catalogue Raisonne, text by Joann Moser, published by IVAM in Spring 2007
Book on Scully Writings, Spanish Language edition, published by Editorial Sintesis, Spring 2007
Tribute to Arthur Danto, talk in The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, published by Library of Living Philisophers, date tbc.
2006
Richer, Francesca and Rosenzweig, Matthew (ed’s) No. 1 First works by 362 Artists
Sean Scully, text by Sue Hubbard, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
Sean Scully: Recent Paintings, LA Louver