1945 Born in Dublin, Ireland. Lives and works in New York, Barcelona and Münich
EDUCATION
1968 Croyden College of Art, London, UK
1972 Newcastle University, UK
1973 Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBTIONS
2021 Sean Scully: Passenger – A Retrospective, Benaki Museum, Athens,
Greece (Forthcoming)
From the Real: Liliane Tomasko & Sean Scully, Newlands House Gallery, Petworth, West Sussex, UK
Sean Scully, Lisson Gallery, East Hampton, New York, USA
Sean Scully, Sammlung Alison und Peter W. Klein, Eberdingen-Nussdorf, Germany
Sean Scully: The Shape of Ideas, Museum of Art Fort Worth Museum, Fort Worth, Dallas, TX, USA
Sean Scully, Pilane Sculpture Park, Klövedal, Sweden
Sean Scully: The 12, Sean Scully Chelsea Studio, New York, NY USA ‘Sean Scully: Dark Windows,
Lisson Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Sean Scully: Entre Ciel et Terre (Between Heaven and Earth), Galerie Thaddeus Ropac – Paris Marais,
Paris, France
Sean Scully: Eleuthera, Royal Hibernian Academy, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2020 Sean Scully: Passenger – A Retrospective, Museum of Fine Arts- Hungarian National Gallery,
Budapest, Hungary.
Sean Scully: Mirror Red, Lisson Gallery, East Hampton, New York, NY, USA
Sean Scully – Insideoutside, Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal, Germany
Opulent Ascension, LWL-Museum for Art and Culture, Münster, Germany Aeternum, Forum
Paracelsus, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Sean Scully. Early Prints, Galerie Klüser, Münich, Germany
Sean Scully, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2019 Sean Scully: Eleuthera, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Málaga, Spain
Light Weight, Lechner Museum, Ingolstadt, Germany
Sean Scully: Eleuthera, The Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
Sean Scully: The Mexico Years / Sean Scully: Los años en Mexico, Instituto Cultural Cabañas,
Guadalajara, Mexico
Sean Scully: Human, Abbey of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
Sean Scully: Vita Duplex, LWL Museum, Münster, Germany
Sean Scully: PAN, Lisson Gallery, New York
Sea Star: Sean Scully, National Gallery of Art, London, UK
Sean Scully: Long Light, Villa e Collezione Panza, Varese, Italy
2018 THE LAND / THE LINE, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Uninsideout, Blain|Southern, London
Sean Scully, curated by Mattijs Visser, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
Sean Scully: Inside Outside, Longside Gallery and Open Air, Yorkshire Sculpture Park,
Wakefield, United Kingdom
Sean Scully: Landline, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C; traveling
to The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Sean Scully. Selected Prints – Etchings and Lithographs, Galerie Boisseré, Cologne, Germany
Beyond Borders, Villa Empain, Foundation Boghossian, Brussels, Belgium
Sean Scully: Human Heart Spirit, Forte Belvedere, Florence, Italy; Museo Novecento, Milan,
Italy; Museo Uffizi, Florence, Italy
Sean Scully: Landlines and Other Recent Works, De Pont Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands
Sean Scully, Kewenig Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Sean Scully: Standing on the Edge of the World, Hong Kong Art Center c/o Timothy
Taylor Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Sean Scully: No Words, Edward Hopper House, Nyack, New York
Vita Duplex, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany; traveling to
LWL-Museum for Art and Culture, Münster, Germany
Sean Scully: 1970, Laing Art Gallery, and concurrently, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne,
United Kingdom; traveling to Walker Art Center, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Sean Scully: Wall of Light, curated by Sukanya Rajaratnam, Mnuchin Gallery, New York
Facing East, State Russian Museum – Marble Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia
Sean Scully, Cuadra San Cristóbal, Mexico City, Mexico
2017 Sean Scully: Wall of Light Cubed, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
Sean Scully: Coming and Going, 447 West 17th Street (and 10th Ave.), New York Before New
York, Sean Scully Studio, Berlin, Germany
Sean Scully, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Brussels, Belgium, in cooperation with Kewenig, Berlin, Germany
Facing East, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia; The Marble Palace, State Russian Museum,
St. Petersburg, Russia
Sean Scully: Paintings from 1969-1973, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, England, UK
Sean Scully, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Centre D’art Contemporain Acentmetresdumonde, Perpiñán, France
2016 Sean Scully: Horizon, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
Sean Scully: Metal, Gallery Lelong, Paris, France
Sean Scully: BOOK, Garrison Art Center, The Rivierside Galleries, Garrison, NY
Centro Cultural Bancaja, Valencia, Spain
Sean Scully: The Eighties, Mnuchin Gallery, New York, NY
Sean Scully: Circa 70, Cheim & Read, Ridgewood, Queens, NY
Sean Scully: The Body and the Frame, Dům Umění České Budějovice, House of Art, Budweis
Czech Republic
2015 Sean Scully Etchings for Federico García Lorca, Cincinnati Art Museum,
Cincinnati, Ohio
Sean Scully: Resistance and Persistence, curated by Philip Dodd, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh Scotland;
Art Museum of the Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing China; Guangdong Museum of Art,
Guangzhou China, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China
Sean Scully: Four Days, Galerie Michael Kewenig Berlin, Germany
Sean Scully, Palazzo Falier, Venice, Italy
Carinthia, Museum Liaunig, Neuhas, Austria
Sean Scully: Different Places, Chåteau La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France
Sean Scully: Sta. Cecilia, Church of Sta Cecilia de Montserrat, Barcelona, Spain
Sean Scully: Home, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Sean Scully, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin Ireland
Sean Scully: Painting as an Imaginative World Appropriation, Museum Liaunig/Neuhaus, Austria
Sean Scully: Moving or Profound or Necessary or Beautiful, 1974-2015, Pinacoteca do Estado and Centro
Universitario maria Antonia, São Paulo, Brazil
Sean Scully: Follow the Heart, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing China
Sean Scully: Landline, Cheim & Read, New York
2014 Sean Scully: A New Master Among Old Masters, Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford UK
Sean Scully: Follow the Heart, Shanghai Himalayas Museum, Shanghai China; Central Academy
of Fine Art, Beijing, China
Galerie Klüser & Galerie Klüser 2, München Germany
Sean Scully, King of Red, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London UK
Figure Abstract, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz Germany; Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock Germany,
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork Ireland
2013 Sean Scully: Triptychs, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, West Sussex UK
Sean Sully: Night and Day, Cheim & Read, New York NY
2012 Sean Scully: Grey Wolf- A Retrospective, curated by Annick Haldemann (bern), and Brigitte Reutner
(linz) Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland; Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria
Sean Scully, The Verey Gallery, Eton College Windsor UK
Sean Scully: The Evocative Capacity of Painting, Wooson Gallery, Daegu, South Korea
Sean Scully: Iona & Related Paintings, Alter Gallery, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA
Sean Scully: Doric, Benaki Museum of Art, Athens Greece; Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno,
Valencia Spain; The Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin Ireland; Musé d’Art Classique de Mougins,
Mougins France
Sean Scully: Luz Del Sure, Alhambra-Palacio Carlos V. Granada Spain
Sean Scully: Works on Paper \ Wall of Light Red Shade, Van Every / Smith Galleries, Davidson
College Davidson North Carolina
Sean Scully: Change and Horizontals, curated by Brett Littman and Joanna Kleinberg, Timothy
Taylor Gallery, London UK; Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough UK;
Walter Storms Galerie, Munich Germany Galleria nazionale de’arte moderna e contemporanea,
Rome Italy; The Drawing Center New York
2011 Sean Scully: Paintings and Watercolors, Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin Madison WI
Sean Scully: Cut Ground, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin Ireland
Sean Scully: Works on Paper, Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, The George Washington University,
Washington D.C.
Sean Scully: Works from the 1980’s, Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
2010 Sean Scully: Iona, Ingleby Gallery Edinburgh, Scotland
Sean Scully: Works from the 1980’s, curated by Tanja Pirisig Marshall, VISUAL- Centre for Contemporary
Art, Carlow, Ireland; Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds UK
Sean Scully: Works from the Modern Museum of Fort Worth, The Old Jail Art Center, Albany TX
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London UK
Die Bilderwelt von Sean Scully, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chmnitz Germany
2009 Paintings from the 80’s, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England
Constantinople or The Sensual Concealed: The Imagery of Sean Scully, MKM Museum Küppersmühle
of Modern Art, Duisberg, Germany; Traveling to Ulster Museum, Belfast; Neues Museum
Weserburg, Bremen; Kunstsammlungen, Chemnitz
2008 The Prints of Sean Scully, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New
Sean Scully, Galeria Carles Taché, Barcelona, Spain
Sean Scully: La surface peinte, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
Sean Scully: The Art of the Stripe, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA,
January 12 - March 9
07-08 Sean Scully: A Retrospective, curated by Danilo Eccher, Miro Foundation, Barcelona; travelled to:
Musee d’Art Moderne de Saint Etienne Metropole; MACRO al Mattatoio, Rome, Italy
The Prints of Sean Scully, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, travelled to: Naples
Museum of Art, Florida; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota; Hyde Collection, Glens Fall, NY
2007 Sean Scully: Walls of Aran, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Photos and Prints, Galerie Kluser 2, Munich, Germany
Sean Scully, Aran Islands, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain; Traveled through 2008 to Musée d’art Moderne Saint-Étienne
Métropole, Saint-Étienne, France; MACRO al Mattatoio, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma,
Rome, Italy
Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zürich, Switzerland
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
06-07 Sean Scully, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, November 22 - January 20
05-07 Wall of Light, Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Dallas, Texas;
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2006 Sean Scully. The Architektur der Farbe / The Architecture of Color, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein,
Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Sean Scully, Biblioteque Nationale de France, Paris, France
Sean Scully, Recent Paintings, LA Louver Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2005 Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Augustinerkloster, Erfurt, Germany
Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria, UK
Staatliche Museum, Kassel, Germany
La Louviere Museum, Belgium
For Garcia Lorca, Sala Alcala 31, Madrid, Spain
Wall of Light, Phillips Collection, Washington DC, US; travelling to The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,
Dallas, Texas, USA; Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, USA; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
2004 Sean Scully: body of light, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia (originating from Sara
Hildén Museum)
Winter Robe, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Sean Scully Prints, Irish Cultural Centre, Paris, France
Paintings from the 70s, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
Sean Scully, Etching for Frederico Garcia Lorca, Frederico Garcia Lorca
Foundation, Granada, Spain
2003 Alexander and Bonin, New York
Sean Scully, Wall of Light, Figures, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
L.A Louver Gallery, Los Angeles
Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland; travelled to: Stiftung Weimarer Klassik, Weimar, Germany
Sean Scully, Hotel des Arts, Toulon, France
2002 Sean Scully, Camara de Comercio de Cantabria, Santander, Spain, travelled to: Ayuntamiento
de Pamplona, Polvorin de la Cindadela
Sean Scully, Gemäldegalerie Neue Mesiter, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany
Sean Scully, Centro de Arte Helio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2001 Paintings, Drawings, Photographs 1990-2001, Kunstsamlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Düsseldorf,
Germany; travelled to: Haus de Kunst, Münich, Germany; I.V.A.M, Valencia, Spain
Wall of Light, Museo D’Arte Contemporaneo De Monterrey, Mexico, curated by Michael Auping;
travelling to: Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
Barcelona Etchings for Frederico Garcia Lorca, Instituto Cervantes, London, UK
New Works on Paper, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
Sean Scully: Light and Gravity, Knoedler & Co, New York, USA
Sean Scully, Le Musée Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland
Sean Scully Work on Paper, Rex Irwin Gallery, Woollhara, Australia; travelled to: Dickerson Gallery,
Melbourne, Australia
Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
2000 Drawings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Kunstammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Sean Scully, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Estampes 1983 - 1999, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, France
Galeria Carles Tache, Barcelona, Spain
Graphics, Galleria d’Arte A+A, Venice, Italy
1999 New Paintings and Works on Paper, Danese Gallery and Galerie Lelong New York
Print Retrospective, Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, Austria; travelled to: Musée du Dessin
et de l’Estampe Originale, Gravelines, France; Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
Works from the Garner Tullis Workshop, Galerie Kornfeld, Zürich, Switzerland
South London Gallery, London, UK
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
Ten Barcelona Paintings, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Münich, Germany
1998 Denver Art Museum, Colorado, USA
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
Bawag Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin, Germany
Mira Goddard Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Galerie Weinberger, Copenhagen, Denmark
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Münich, Germany
Galerie Antonia Puyo, Zaragoza, Spain
Galerie Le Triangle Blue, Stavelot, Belgium
1997 Sean Scully 1987 - 1997, Sala de Exposiciones Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain; travelled to: Salas del
Palacio Episcopal, Plaza del Obispo, Malága, Spain; Fundació la Caixa, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Sean Scully 1982-1996, Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Floating Paintings and Photographs, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Galería DV, San Sebastían, Spain
Recent Paintings, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
Mary Boone, New York, USA
Jamileh Weber Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1996 Floating Paintings and Works on Paper, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France; travelled to
Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Linz, Austria; (1997) Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
Paintings and Works on Paper, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Villa delle Rose,
Bologna, Italy
Works on Paper 1975 -1996, Graphische Sammlung, Münich, Germany; travelled to Museum Folkwang,
Essen, Germany; Henie + Onstad Art Center, Hovikodden, Norway; (1997) Whitworth Art Gallery,
Manchester, UK; Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Art, Dublin, Ireland; (1998) Herning Kunstmuseum,
Herning, Denmark; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Minnesota, USA; Denver Art Museum,
Denver, Colorado, USA; Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachussetts,
USA; (2000) Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
Catherine Paintings, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
Pastels, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
Galeria Carles Tache, Barcelona, Spain
Prints, Galerie Angelika Harthan, Stuttgart, Germany
1995 Sean Scully: Twenty Years, Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA; travelled to
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; La Caixa des Pensiones, Barcelona, Spain; (1996)
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Catherine Paintings, Kunsthalle Bielefeld; travelled to: Palais des Beaux Arts, Charleroi, Belgium
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Münich, Germany
Mary Boone, New York, USA
Waddington Galleries, London, UK
Galeria de l’Ancien College, Chatellerault, France
Galería El Dario Vasco, San Sebastían, Spain
1994 Works on Paper, Knoedler & Co, New York, USA
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Butler Gallery, Kikenny Castle, Kikenny, Ireland
Galleria Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporaneo, Milano, Italy
1993 Catherine Paintings, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
Waddington Galleries, London, UK
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Münich, Germany
1992 Prints, Weinberger Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sean Scully, The Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Woodcuts, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York, USA
Prints and Related Work, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, USA
Woodcuts, Bobby Greenfield Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Woodcuts, Stephen Solovy Fine Art, Chicago, USA
Waddington Galleries, London, UK
1991 Paintings and Works on Paper, Jamileh Weber Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
1990 Sean Scully, Galerie de France, Paris, France
Galerie de France, Paris, France
Karsten Greve Gallery, Cologne, Germany
David McKee Gallery, New York, USA
1989 Sean Scully, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK; travelled to Palacio de Velásquez del Retiro,
Madrid, Spain; Lenbachhaus, Münich, Germany
David McKee Gallery, London, UK
Pastel Drawings, Grob Gallery, London
1988 Four Paintings, Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Sean Scully, Matrix / Berkeley University Art Museum, USA
1987 Four Paintings, Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Monotypes, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Monotypes, David McKee Gallery, New York, USA
Monotypes, Douglas Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, USA
Mayor Rowan Gallery, London, UK
Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf, Germany
1986 David McKee Gallery, New York, USA
1985 Sean Scully, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; travelled to: The Boston Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, USA
Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf, Germany
1984 Juda Rowan Gallery, London, UK
Galerie S65, Aalst, Belgium
1983 David McKee Gallery, New York, USA
1982 William Beadleston Gallery, New York, USA
1981 Sean Scully, Museum für (Sub) Kultur, Berlin, Germany
Sean Scully: Paintings 1971-1981, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK;
travelled under the auspices of the Arts Council of Great Britain to:
Sunderland Arts Centre, Sunderland, UK; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland; Warwick Arts Trust,
London, UK
1977 Duffy-Gibbs Gallery, New York, USA
Rowan Gallery, London, UK
1976 Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA
1974 Rowan Gallery, London, UK
Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA
1973 Rowan Gallery, London, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 At Dawn, Cheim & Read, New York, New York, USA.
Blue, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY, USA
Gifts to the Museum, Mystic Museum of Art, Mystic, CT, USA
Rythmes et vibrations, Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris, France.
Spectrum, Lisson Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Systemrelevant? / Systemically Important?, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe,
Karlsruhe, Germany.
Double-M, Double-X, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
Living with art: Picasso to Celmins, F. E. McWilliam Gallery and Studio, Northern Ireland, Banbridge, UK.
Principally Painting, Hilti Art Foundation im Kunstmuseum, Vaduz, Liechtenstein.
30 Years in Paris, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac – Pantin, Paris, France.
2019 In Honor of the New MoMA, Cheim & Read, New York, NY, USA
O Della Materia Spirituale Dell’arte, MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del
XXI secolo, Rome, Italy
Blickachsen 12, Schmuckplatz, Bad Homburg Kurpark, Bad Homburg, Germany
Shaping Ireland: Landscapes in Irish Art, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
In Colour: Sickert to Riley, Charleston – Wolfson Gallery, Essex, UK ‘Assemblage and Abstraction,
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, USA
Der duft der bilder – Werke der coleccion olorvisual, Barcelona (The fragrance of the pictures -
works of the colección olorVISUAL, Barcelona)’, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, Delmenhorst,
Germany
Criminal Ornamentation: Yinka Shonibare MBE curates the Arts Council Collection, Royal
Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, UK
Shadowplay, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Blickachsen 12, Schmuckplatz, Bad Homburg Kurpark, Bad Homburg, Germany
2018 Abstracted Wonders: The Power of Lines, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
On the way through the collections of Centre for Engravings and Prints of La Louvière,
Wallonie-Brussels Center, Paris, France
The Joy of Color, Mnuchin Gallery, New York, NY
art and friendship, Green Door Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Catch It & Lose It, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Der duft der bilder – Werke der coleccion olorvisual, Barcelona (The fragrance of the pictures - works
of the colección olorVISUAL, Barcelona), Art and Culture Foundation Opelvillen
Rüsselsheim, Rüsselsheim, Germany
Beyond Borders, Villa Empain- Borghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
Frieze Sculpture, Regent's Park, London, UK
Picasso. Gorky. Warhol. Sculptures and Works on Paper. Hubert Looser Collection, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems
Sculpture in the City, London, UK
Conrad Shawcross / MATRIX 179, Wadsworth Antheneum, Hartford, CT
250th Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2017 Abstraction: Resistance and Persistence, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Über den Umgang mit Menschen, wenn Zuneigung im Spiel ist. Sammlung Klein, Kunstmuseum
Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
The Horizontal, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
Abstract Painting Now!, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria
Against Landscape, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
beide | both, Kunstwerk - Sammlung Alison and Peter W. Klein, Eberdingen-Nussdorf, Germany
Selected works from the Hubert Looser collection, The National Gallery at the National Museum of
Norway, Olso, Norway
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom
Art contemporani (1984-2010), Centro Cultural Bancaja, Fundación Bancaja, Spain
The Power of the Avant-garde, BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paleis voor
Schone Kunsten Brussels, Beligum
2016 Architecture of Color: The Legacy of Luis Barragán, Timothy Taylor 16x34, New York, NY
Jacob Kainen, Thomas Nozkowski, and Sean Scully, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington DC
BASQUIAT, DUBUFFET, SOULAGES ... A PRIVATE COLLECTION, The Foundation Hermitage,
Lausanne, Switzerland
As If, at Home, Box Freiraum, Berlin, Germany
Summer Exhibition 2016, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
Modernist Intersections: The Tia Collection, The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2015 Surface Tension, The FLAG Foundation, New York, NY
Testing Testing; Painting and Sculpture since 1960 from the Permanent Collection, Ackland Art
Museum, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC
Salas Municipales de Exposiciones de la Iglesia de las Francesas y del Museo de la Pasion,
Valladolid, Spain
2014 5 Years Schellingstrabe, Walter Storms Galerie, Munchen Germany
Record’Art, Cadaques Girona, Spain
Contemporary Art: Selections from the Museum’s Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Post-Picasso: Reaccions Contemporaneas, Museo Picasso, Barcelona, Spain
Encounter, Royal Academy of Arts in China, Yuan Museum, Beijing, China
2013 Contemporary Istanbul, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
Edge, Order, Rupture, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
Farbiges Grau, Mies van der Roh Haus, Berlin, Germany
2012 A Window on the World’ From Dürer to Mondrian and Beyond, Looking through the Window of
art from the Reinassance to Today, Museo Cantonale d’Arte e Museo d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland
Abstract Drawings, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Stimuli” Prints and Multiples, Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY
2011 Selected Prints, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
Photography: Richard Deacon, Fredrick Hammersley, Sean Scully, Juan USlé, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
The Cincinnati Art Awards: Gifts and Warhol Portraits of Doug Cramer, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Gravity, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
The Indiscipline of Painting; International Abstraction from the 1960s to now, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall
UK; Mead Gallery Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK
Multiplicity, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
2010 Kunstwerke aus der UBS Art Collection im Opern Turm Frankfurt, Der Opern Turm Frankfurt Germany
Living with Art; Collecting Contemporary in Metro New York, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase NY
Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA
Decameron, curated by David Cohen, New York Studio School, New York NY
The Moderns: The Arts in Ireland from the 1900’s to the 1970s, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Ireland
2009 Preview for upcoming exhibitions, Jamileh Weber Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Pop to Present, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford CA
Building with Colour, Gallery North, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Drei. Das Triptychon in der Moderne, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Regards Croises, Les oeuvres de la BEI a la BCEE, Galerie d’Art ContemporainAm Tunnel &
Espace Edward Steichen, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Synchronies: Undercurrents in European and American Postwar Abstraction, Hackett-Freedman
Gallery, San Francisco, California
2008 Abstraction in the IVAM Collection, Institut Valencia d'Art Moderne, Valencia, Spain
Monet-Kandinsky-Rothko and Aftermath: Paths of Abstract Painting, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria
2007 The Jeff Baldus Collection, Clausen Art Gallery, Briar Cliff University, Sioux City, IA
Samuel Beckett, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
The Prints of Sean Scully,” Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Traveled through
2008 to Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis,
Minnesota; and the Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, New York
2006 Architecture of Color, Hilti Foundation, Schaan, Lichtenstein
Sean Scully, Frederic Thurzs, Lawrence Carroll, Sean Shanahan, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2005 Homage to Chillida, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain
Western Bienale of Fine Art, curated by Edward Lucie-Smith, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, California, USA
2004 A Vision of Modern Art, In Memory of Dorothy Walker, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Los Monocromos, curated by Barbara Rose, Museu Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Picasso to Thiebauld, Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
2003 Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
2002 25º Bienal De Såo Paulo, Fundaçåo de Sao Paulo, Såo Paulo, Brazil
Colour / Concept, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
2001 A Century of Drawing, The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA
2000 On Canvas: Contemporary Painting from the Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, USA
L’Ombra Della Ragione, Gallerie D’Arte Moderna Bologna, Italy
September Selections, Knoedler & Company, New York, USA
1999 Side by Side, Knoedler Gallery, New York, USA
Geometry as Design – Structures as Modern Art from Albers to Paik, Neue National Galerie, Berlin, Germany
The Essl Collection: The First View, Museum Sammlung Essl-Klosterneuberg, Vienna, Austria
Signature Pieces: Contemporary British Prints and Multiples, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
Unlocking the Grid: Concerning the Grid in Recent Painting, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, US
Drawing in the Present Tense, Parsons School of Design, New York, USA, and (2000) Eastern State
University, Willimantic, CT, USA
Drawings, Alexander + Bonin, New York, USA
1998 Contemporary Art: the Janet Wolfson de Botton Gift, Tate Gallery, London
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, US
Zeit und Materie, Baukunst, Cologne, Germany
The Edward R Broida Collection: A Selection of Works, Orlando Museum of Art, FL
Photographies, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
On a Clear Day, Graphische Sammlung, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
Arterias: Collection of Contemporary Art, Fundacio la Caixa, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
Large Scale Drawings, Danese Gallery, New York, USA
Jan Dibbets / Sean Scully fotografias, Galería Estiarte, Madrid, Spain
Sean Scully / Lawrence Carroll, Lawing Gallery, Houston, USA
Sarajevo 2000, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wein, Vienna, Austria
En Norsk Samling Au Europeisk kunst, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Norway
1997 British Arts Council Collection, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK
Singular Impressions: the Monotype in America, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian
Institute, Washington DC, US
The Pursuit of Painting, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
After the Fall: Abstract Painting, Snug Harbour Cultural Centre, Staten Island, New York, USA
Prints, Galerie Lelong, New York and Paris
A Century of Irish Paintings; Selections from the Collection of the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery
of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland; travelled to: The Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo;
The Mitaka City Gallery of Art, Tokyo; Yamanashi Perfectural Museum of Art, Yamanashi, Japan
The View from Denver: Contemporary American Art from the Denver Art Museum, Museum Moderner
Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wein, Vienna, Austria
Thirty Five Years at Crown Point Press: Making Prints, Doing Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington
DC, USA and The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
1996 Nuevas Astracciones, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; travelled to:
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany; Museo d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
Thinking Print, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
XV Salon des los 16, Museo de Antropologiá, Madrid, Spain
Balancing Act, Room Gallery, New York, USA
Bare Bones, TZ Art, New York, USA
Festival de Culture Irlandaise Contemporaine, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
1995 Seven from the Seventies, Knoedler & Co., New York, USA
Colour and Structure, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
New Publications, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, USA
New York Abstract, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, USA
US Prints, Rtretti Art Center, Pubkaharju, Finland
1994 Recent Painting Acquisitions, Tate Gallery, London, UK
For 25 Years: Brooke Alexander Editions, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Recent Acquisitions: Paintings from the Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
British Abstract Art, Flowers East, London, UK
Recent Acquisitions: Prints and Photographs, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
Contemporary Watercolours: Europe and America, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, USA
L’Incanto e la Trascendenza, Galleria Civica de Arte Contemporaneo, Trento, Italy
1993 Tutte le strade portano a Roma, El Centro para exposiciones de Roma, Italy
Beyond Paint, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, USA
Drawing in Black and White, The Museum of Modern Art, The New York Grolier Club, New York
American and European Prints, Machida City Museum of Arts, Tokyo, Japan
American and European Works on Paper, Galerie Martin Wieland, Trier, Germany
Italia-America L’Astrazione Redefinita, Dicastro Cultura, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna,
Republica di San Marino, Italy
Partners, Annely Juda Fine Art, London, UK
25 Years, Cleveland Centre for Contemporary Art, Ohio, USA
Modernities, Baumgartner Galleries, Washington DC, USA
5 One-Person Shows, Jamileh Weber Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
1992 Whitechapel Open, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Four series of prints, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Recent Abstract Painting, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio, USA
Collaboration in Monotype from the Garner Tullis Workshop, Sert Gallery, Carpenter Center
for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachussetts, USA
Geteilte Bilder, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Alemania
Behind Bars, Thread Waxing Space, New York, USA
Color Block Prints of the 20th Century, Associated American Artists, New York, USA
Painted on Press: Recent Abstract Prints, Madison Art Center,Wisconsin, USA
Monotypes from Garner Tullis Workshop, SOMA Gallery, San Diego, California, USA
44th Annual Academy-Institute Purchase Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, USA
Galleria Sergio Tossi, Prato, Italy
1991 Post Modern Prints, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Small Format Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Group Show, Louver Gallery, New York, USA
La Metafisica Della Luce, John Goode Gallery, New York, USA
1990 Sean Scully / Donald Sultan: Abstraction / Representation, Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford
University, Stanford, California, USA
Drawings: Joseph Beuys, Paul Rotterdam, Sean Scully, Arnold Herstand & Company, Anthony
Ralph Gallery, New York, USA
Geometric Abstraction, Marc Richards Gallery, Santa Monica California, USA
Artists in the Abstract, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
1989 The Elusive Surface, The Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico, USA
Drawings and Related Prints, Castelli Graphics, New York, USA
Essential Painting, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
The 1980s: Prints from the Collection of Joshua P. Smith, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C, USA
1988 The Presence of Painting, Mapping Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK
17 Years at the Barn, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, USA
Works on PaperSelections from the Garner Tullis Workshop, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York, USA
New Editions, Crown Point Press, San Francisco and New York, USA
Sightings: Drawings with Color, Pratt Institute, New York, USA
1987 Drawing from the 80s – Chatsworth Collaboration, Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA
Harvey Quaytman and Sean Scully, Helsinki Festival, Helsinki, Finland
Logical Foundations, Pfizer, Inc. New York, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, USA
Drawn-Out, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Magic in the Minds Eye: Part 1 & 2, Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA
Logical Foundations, Pfizer, Inc. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Works on Paper, Nina Freundenheim Gallery, Bufalo, New York, USA
1986 Public and Private: American Prints Today, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
25 Years: Three Decades of Contemporary Art, Juda Rowan Gallery, London, UK
An American Renaissance in Art: Painting and Sculpture since 1940, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Fine
Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
After Matisse, New York, USA
Sean Scully and Catherine Lee, Paul Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
CAL Collects 1, University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, USA
The Heroic Sublime, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, USA
Structure / Abstraction, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, Mihigan, USA
Detroiers Collect: New Generation, Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA
Recent Acquisitions, Contemporary Arts Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
1985 Masterpieces of the Avant-Garde, Annely Juda Fine Art/Juda Rowan Gallery, London, UK
Abstract Painting as Surface and Object, Hillwood Art Gallery, C. W. Post Center, Long Island University,
Greenvale, New York, USA
An Invitational, Condeso / Lawler Gallery, New York, USA
Decade of Visual Arts at Princeton: Faculty 1975-1985, Princeton University Museum of Art, New Jersey, USA
Abstraction / Issues, Tibor de Nagy, Oscarsson Hood & Sherry French, New York
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
1984 An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Hassam and Speicher Purchase Fund Exhibition, Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, USA
Part 1: Twelve Abstract Painters, Siegel Contemporary Art, New York
ROSC, The Guinness Hops Store, Dublin, Ireland
Currents #6, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin, USA
Small Works: New Abstract Painting, Lafayette College and Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
1983 Nocturne, Siegel Contemporary Art, New York, USA
Contemporary Abstract Painting, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania
1982 Recent Aspects of All-Over, Harm Boukaert Gallery, New York
Abstract Painting, Jersey City Museum, New Jersey
1981 Art for Collectors, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Arabia Felix, Art Galaxy Gallery, New York
New Directions, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
1980 Marking Black, Bronx Museum of Art, New York
New Directions, Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
1979 The British Art Show (Sheffield, Newcastle, Bristol) UK
New Wave Painting, The Clocktower, New York
Fourteen Painters, Lehman College, New York
First Exhibition, Toni Birkhead Gallery, Cincinnati
1978 Certain Traditions, organised by the British Arts Council, Canada
1977 British Painting 1952-1977, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Four Artists, Nobe Gallery, New York
1976 Invitational, John Weber Gallery, New York
1975 Art Fair Contemporary Art Society, London
1974 British Painting, Hayward Art Gallery, London
International Bienniale of Art, Menton, France
1973 La Peinture Anglaise Aujourd’hui, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
Critics’ Choice, Gulbenkian Gallery, Newcastle
1972 John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 8, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Northern Young Painters, Stirling University, UK
1971 Art Spectrum North, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; City Arts Gallery, Leeds; Whitworth Art
Gallery, Manchester, UK
1970 London Young Contemporaries, travelled under the auspices of the Arts Council of Great Britain
1968 Northern Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
AWARDS AND HONORS
2016 Harper’s Bazaar Art International Artist of the Year Award, Hong Kong, China
2015 V Congreso Asociacion Protecturi, Madrid, Spain, for contribution to Spanish religious heritage
2014 Honorary Degree, Doctor of Letters, National University of Ireland, Galway
2013 Becomes member of the Royal Academy of the Arts, London
2010 Honorary Degree, Doctor of Letters, Newcastle University
2008 Honorary Degree, Doctor Honoris Causa, Universitas Miguel Hernandez
2006 Sean Scully Room, A room dedicated to Sean Scullys’ work, Dublin City
Gallery the Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland, opened on May 5th
2003 Massachusetts College of Art, Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree
National University of Ireland, Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree
2001 Becomes member of Aosdána, Ireland 2000 Honorary Member of the London Institute of Arts and Letters
1994 Made an honorary member of the London Institute
1984 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1983 Received Guggenheim Fellowship
Received Artist's Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts
1972 John Knox Fellowship
COLLECTIONS
Arts Council of Great Britain, London, UK
BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Bayrische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Münich, Germany
Biblioteque Nationale de France, Paris, France
The British Council, London, UK
Ceolfrith Art Centre, Sunderland, UK
Contemporary Arts Society, London, UK
Council of Academic Awards, London, UK
Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Eastern Arts Association, Cambridge, UK
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
La Fondation Edelman, Lausanne, Switzerland
Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
Galleria D’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Hunterian Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Kunst und Museumsverein Wuppertal, Germany
Kunstammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Leicestershire Educational Authority, Leicester, UK
Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Musée de Gravelines, France
Musée de Val de Marne, Ivy-sur-Seine, France
Museo Nacional Centro d’Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Museum für (Sub) Kultur, Berlin, Germany
Museum Moderna Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Austria
Museum fur Sub-Kultur, Berlin, Germany
Northern Arts Association, Newcastle, UK
Ruhr Universitat Bochum, Germany
Saastamoisen Saatio, Helsinki, Finland
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgard, Germany
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Münich, Germany
Tate, London, UK
Ulster Museum, Belfast, Ireland
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Technologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
National Gallery of Victoria, Felton Bequest, Melbourne, Australia
Power Institute of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan
United States and South America
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Centro Cultural del Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, USA
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, USA
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA
Denver Art Museum, Colorado, USA
Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, California, USA
First Bank Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts, USA
Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Mellon Bank, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
The Metropolitan Institute of Art, New York, USA
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, Venezuela
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Monterrey, Mexico
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida, USA
Paine Webber Group, Inc., New York, USA
Philip Morris Inc., New York, USA
The Phillips Collection, Washington DC, USA
San Diego Museum of Art, California, USA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California, USA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, USA
The St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri, USA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA