* 1945 in Dublin (Ireland)
lebt / lives in New York (USA), Barcelona (Spain) und Mooseurach (Germany)


Selected Solo Exhibitions / Ausgewählte Einzelaustellungen

2011
Sean Scully. Werke aus den 1980er Jahren, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen (Germany)
2010
SEAN SCULLY: The 1980s, VISUAL-Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow (Ireland)
Sean Scully: Works from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas (USA)
Lilianne, Alexander and Bonin, New York (USA)
Sean Scully, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London (UK)
Iona, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland)
2009
MARKIERUNGEN (with Jannis Kounellis), 401contemporary, Berlin (Germany)
Sean Scully, Gallery Lelong, New York (US)
Sean Scully, László Vass Collection, Veszprém (Hungary)
Sean Scully, Walter Storms Galerie, München (Germany)
Konstantinopel oder die versteckte Sinnlichkeit (Constantinople or The Sensual Concealed), MKM Museum Küppersmühle of Modern Art, Duisburg, travelling to Ulster Museum, Belfast; Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen and Kunstsammlungen, Chemnitz
Paintings from the 80’s, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London (UK)
2008
Sean Scully, Galeria Carles Taché, Barcelona (Spain)
La surface peinte, Galerie Lelong, Paris (France)
The Art of the Stripe, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (USA)
2007
Sean Scully: A Retrospective, curated by Danilo Eccher, Miro Foundation, Barcelona (Spain); Musee d’Art Moderne de Saint Etienne (France); MACRO al Mattatoio, Rome (Italy)
The Prints of Sean Scully, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington (USA); Naples Museum of Art, Fl (USA); Minneapolis Institute of Art (USA); Hyde Collection, Glens Fall, NY (USA)
Walls of Aran, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (Ireland)
2006
Sean Scully, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London (UK)
Sean Scully, L.A. Louver, California (USA)
2005
Wall of Light, Phillips Collection, Washington DC (USA)
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Dallas, TX (USA)
Cincinnati Art Museum, OH (USA)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (USA)
Sean Scully, Sala Alcala 31, Madrid (Spain)
Sean Scully, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)
Sean Scully: New Work, Galerie Lelong, New York (USA)
Glaube-Liebe Hoffnung (Faith-Hope-Love), Augustinerkloster, Erfurt (Germany)
Sean Scully: Fotografias, Galeria Carles Taché, Barcelona (Spain)
Sean Scully: Graphic Works, Fenton Gallery, Cork (Ireland)
2004
Body of Light, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (Australia)
Holly Paintings, Kunstverein Aichach (Germany)
Winter Robe, Galerie Lelong, Paris (France)
Prints 1983- 2003, Irish Cultural Centre, Paris (France)
Sean Scully, Centro Jose Guerrero and Federico Garcia Lorca Foundation, Granada (Spain)
Sean Scully, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (Ireland)
Sean Scully, Galerie Bernd Klüser, München (Germany)
Paintings From the 70s, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London (UK)
2003
Sean Scully, Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tempere (Finland)
Stiftung Weimarer Klassik, Weimar (Germany); National Gallery of Austria, Canberra (Australia)
Wall of Light: Figures, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London (UK)
Sean Scully, Galeria Carles Taché, Barcelona (Spain)
Sean Scully, Hôtel des Arts, Toulon (France)
2002
Sean Scully, Camara de Comercio de Cantabria, Santander; Ayuntamiento de Pamplona, Polvorin de la Cindadela (Spain)
Sean Scully, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden (Germany)
Sean Scully, LA Louver Gallery, Los Angeles (USA)
Sean Scully, Centro de Art Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro (Brasil)
2001
Wall of Light, curated by Michael Auping, Museo De Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (Mexico)
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City (Mexico)
Barcelona Etchings for Frederico Garcia Lorca, Instituto Cervantes, London (UK)
Light and Gravity, Knoedler + Company, New York (USA)
New Works on Paper and Photographs, Galerie Lelong, New York (USA)
Paintings, Drawings, Photographs 1990-2001, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein, Westfallen, Düsseldorf (Germany)
Haus der Kunst, München (Germany)
I.V.A.M, Valencia (Spain)
Sean Scully, Le Musée Jenisch, Vevey (Switzerland)
walls / windows / horizons, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI (USA)
2000
Drawings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (USA)
Estampes 1983, 1999, Musee des Beaux Arts de Caen (France)
Sean Scully: Photographies, Galerie de l‘ancien college, Ecole municipale d’Arts plastiques, Chatellerault (France)
Sean Scully, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)
Graphics, Galleria d’Arte A+A, Venice (Italy)
Sean Scully, Galeria Carles Taché, Barcelona (Spain)

Selected Group Exhibitions / Ausgewählte Gruppenausstellungen

2011
Creating the New Century: Contemporary Art from the Dicke Collection, The Dayton Art Institute (USA)
The Cracked Looking Glass, Main Gallery and Milberg Gallery, firestone Library, Princeton University, Princeton (USA)
2010
MEMENTO, 401contemporary, Berlin (Germany)
Eröffnung: Neubau Museum Folkwang, Essen (Germany)
2009
Just what it is..., ZKM, Karlsruhe (Germany)
Pop to Present, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA (USA)
Building with Colour, Gallery North, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne (UK)
Drei. Das Triptychon in der Moderne, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (Germany)
Regards Croises. Les oeuvres de la BEI a la BCEE, Galerie d’Art Contemporain,
Am Tunnel & Espace Edward Steichen, Luxembourg (Luxemburg)
Synchronies: Undercurrents in European and American Postwar Abstraction, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA (USA)
2008
Abstraction in the IVAM Collection, Institut Valencia d'Art Moderne, Valencia
2007
Monet - Kandinsky - Rothko and Aftermath: Paths of Abstract Painting, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (Spain)
Musée d’art Moderne Saint-Étienne Métropole, Saint-Étienne (France)
MACRO al Mattatoio Rome (Italy)
Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna (Austria)
The Jeff Baldus Collection, Clausen Art Gallery, Briar Cliff University, Sioux City, IO (USA)
Samuel Beckett, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (France)
2005
Soltano Un Quadro Al Massimo, Accademia Tedesca Roma Villa Massimo, Rome (Italy)
SIAR 50, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (UK)
Minimalism and After IV, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin (Germany)
Eye of the Storm: The IMMA Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (UK)
Western Biennale of Art: Art Tomorrow, curated by Edward Lucie-Smith, John
Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA (USA)
The Giving Person, curated by Lorand Hegyi, Fondazione Culturale Edison, Napoli (Italy)
Points of View: Landscapes and Photography, Galerie Lelong, New York (USA)
2004
Los Monocromos: De Malevich Al Presente, Museo Nacional Centro de Art Reina Sofia, Madrid (Spain)
2002
Augeenblik, Foto/ Kunst, Sammlung Essl, Klosternberg (Germany)
Fundação, 25 Bienal De São Paulo (Brasil)
117th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York (USA)
No Object, No Subject, No Matter… , Abstraction in the IMMA Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (UK)
2001
A Century of Drawing, The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC (USA)
Watercolor: In the Abstract, curated by Pamela Auchincloss, Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, NY (USA)
Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center Gallery, New York (USA)
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH (USA)
Ben Shahn Gallery, New York (USA)
Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, DePaul University, Tuscaloosa, AL (USA)
2000
New Works, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zürich (Switzerland)
On Canvas: Contemporary Painting from the Collection, The Guggenheim Museum, New York (USA)
L’Ombra Della Ragione, Galleria D’Arte Moderna Bologna (Italy)
September Selections, Knoedler & Company, New York (USA)
The Essl Collection: The First View, Museum Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuberg, Wien (Austria)
Signature pieces: Contemporary British Prints and Multiples, Alan Christea Gallery, London (UK)
Unlocking the Grid: Concerning the Grid in Recent Painting, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI (Island)
Drawing in the Present Tense, Parsons School of Design, New York, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CO (USA)
1999
Drawings, Alexander + Bonin, New York (USA)
Side by Side, Knoedler + Company, New York (USA)
Geometry as Design: Structures of Modern Art from Albers to Paik, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (Germany)
1998
Zeit und Materie, Baukunst, Köln
Contemporary Art: The Janet, Wolfson de Botton Gift, Tate Gallery, London (UK)
The Edward R. Collection: A Selection of Works, Orlando Museum of Art, FL (USA)
Photographies, Galerie Lelong, Paris (France)
On A Clear Day, Graphische Sammlung, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart (Germany)
Arterias: Collection Of Contemporary Art, Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona (Spain)
Malmö Konstall, Malmö (Sweden)
Large Scale Drawings, Danese Gallery, New York (USA)
Jan Dibbets/ Sean Scully Fotografias, Galeria Estiarte, Madrid (Spain)
Sean Scully/ Lawrence Carroll, Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX (USA)
Group Exhibition, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (UK)
Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC (USA)
Acquisitions 1997, Le Conseil General du Val de Marne FDAC, exhibited at Hôtel du Departement, Creteil (France)
Sarajevo 2000, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wein, Vienna (Austria)
Matrix Berkley 1978, 1998, University of Califonia, Berkley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA (USA)
En Norsk Samling Au Europeisk Kunst, Trondheim Kunstmuseum (Norway)
1997
After The Fall: Abstract Painting, Snug Harbour Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY (USA)
British Arts Council Collection, Royal Festival Hall, London (UK)
The Pursuit of Painting, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (UK)
Prints, Galerie Lelong, New York (USA)
Prints, Galerie Lelong, Paris (France)
A Century of Irish Paintings: Selections from the Collection of the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin (UK)
The Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo (Japan)
Yamanashi Perfectural Museum of Art, Yamanashi (Japan)
The View From Denver: Contemporary American Art from the Denver Art Museum, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (Austria)
Thirty Five Years at Crown Point Press: Making Prints, Doing Art, The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, CA (USA)
Singular Impressions: The Monotype in America, The National Museum of American Art, Washington DC (USA)
1996
XV Salon des los 16, Museo de Antropologia, Madrid (Spain)
Balancing Act, Room Gallery, New York (USA)
Nuevas Abstracciones, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (Spain)
Kunstalle Bielefeld (Germany)
MACBA, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Spain)
Bare Bones, TZ Art, New York (USA)
Festival de Culture Irlandaise Contemporaine, Ecoles des Beaux Arts, Paris (France)
Thinking Print, Museum of Modern Art, New York (USA)
Holländisches Bad: Radierungen zur Renaissaince einer Technik, Kunsthaus, Hamburg (Germany)
Brecht Haus, Berlin (Germany)
1995
Seven From The Seventies, Knoedler Gallery, New York (USA)
New Publications, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York (USA)
New York Abstract, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA (USA)
US Prints, Retretti Center, Punkaharju, Finland
Color + Structure, Galerie Lelong, New York (USA)
1994
Recent Painting Acquisitions, Tate Gallery, London (UK)
Contemporary Watercolours: Europe and America, UNT Art Gallery, Denton, TX (USA)
For 25 Years Brooke Alexander Editions, Museum of Modern Art, New York (USA)
Recent Acquisitions: Paintings From the Collection, The Irish Museum of Art, Dublin (UK)
L’Incanto e La Trascendenza, Galleria Civica de Arte Contemporanea, Trento (Italy)
British Abstract Art, Flowers East Gallery, London (UK)
Recent Acquisitions: Prints and Paintings, Cleveland Museum of Art, OH (USA)
1993
Tutte Le Strade Portano A Roma, The Exhibition Center of Rome (Italy)
Beyond Print, Tobor de Nagy Gallery, New York (USA)
Drawing in Black and White, MOMA, The New York Grolier Club, New York (USA)
American and European Prints, Machida City Museum of Arts, Tokyo (Japan)
American and European Works on Paper, Gallery 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 Center for Contemporary Art, OH (USA)
Modernities, Baumgartner Galleries, Washington DC (USA)
5 One Person Shows, Jamileh Weber Gallery, Zürich (Switzerland)
1992
Four Series Of Prints, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA (USA)
Recent Abstract Painting, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Collaboration in Monotype from the Garner Tullis Workshop, Sert Gallery, Carpenter Centre for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (USA)
Geteilte Bilder, Museum Folkwang, Essen
Behind Bars, Thread Waxing Space, New York (USA)
Color Block Prints of the 20th Century, Associated American Artists, New York (USA)
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (UK)
Painted on Press: Recent Abstract Print, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI (USA)
Monotypes, Woodcuts, Drawings, Europäische Akademie für Bildende Kunst, Trier (Germany)
Monotypes from Garner Tullis Workshop, SOMA Gallery, San Diego, CA (USA)
44th Annual Academy, Institute Purchase Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Galeria Sergio Tossi, Prato (Italy)
1991
Small Format Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA (USA)
Post-modern Prints, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (UK)
La Metafisica Della Luce, John Goode Gallery, New York, curated by Demetrio Paparoni, New York (USA)
1990
Drawings: Joseph Beuys, Paul Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Sean Scully, Arnold Herstand, & Company, Anthony Ralph Gallery, New York (USA)
Sean Scully / Donald Sultan: Abstraction/ Representation, Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (USA)
Geometric Abstraction, Marc Richards Gallery, Santa Monica, California, CA (USA)
Artists in the Abstract, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC (USA)

Public Collections / Öffentliche Sammlungen

Albright Knox Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporaneo Mexico DF, Chase Manhattan Bank, Chemical Bank, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, Eli Broad Family Foundation, First Bank Minneapolis, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Guggenheim Museum, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, High Museum of Art, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Mellon Bank, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Monterrey, Museo de Arte Moderno, Col. Bosques de Chaultepec, Museum of Fine Art Boston, MOMA, National Gallery of Art, Orlando Museum of Art, Paine Webber Group, Inc., Phillip Morris Inc., The Phillips Collection, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, San Diego Museum of Art, The St. Louis Art Museum, Walker Art Center, Albertina, Arts Council of Great Britain, Banque Europeene d’Investissement, Luxembourg, BAWAG Foundation, Bayrische Gemäldesammlung, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, The British Council, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Ceolfrith Art Center, Consejeria de Cultura, Contemporary Arts Society, Council of National Academic Awards, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, The DG Bank Collection, Eastern Arts Association, Fitzwilliam Museum, La Foundation Edelman, Foundation Stiftelesen Focus-Boras, Fundacio La Caixa, Galleria D’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Laszlo Vass Collection, Hotel des Arts Toulon, Hunterian Art Gallery, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Kunstsammlung, Nordrhein- Westfalen, Kunst und Museumsverein Wuppertal, Kunsthaus Zürich, Laing Art Gallery, Leicestershire Educational Authority, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Manchester City Art Gallery, Museum Folkwang, Musee de Val de Marne, Musee du Dessin et de l’Estampe Originale, Musee Jenisch, Musee d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig, Museum Pfalzgalerie, Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Saastamoisien Saatio Helsinki, Sala Rekalde, Sammlung Essl-Vienna, Sara Hilden Art Museum, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Lenbachhaus München, The Tate Gallery, Ulster Museum, University of Limerick, Victoria and Albert Museum, Whitworth Art Gallery, ZKM Karlsruhe, Australian National Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Power Institute of Contemporary Art Nagoya City Art Museum, Tokyo International Forum