Leslie Sacks Fine Art

Sean Scully

(American/Irish, b. 1945)

Sean Scully

Yellow Red

Biography

Timeline

1945 - Present: Lives and works in the USA
1945: Born in Dublin, Ireland on January 3rd
1949: Family moved to London
1965 - 1968: Studied at Croydon College of Art, London, England
1968 - 1972: Studied at Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
1972 - 1973: Studied at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1973 - 1975: Taught at Chelsea School of Art and Goldsmiths' School of Art, London, United Kingdom
1975: Moved to the United States
1977 - 1983: Taught at Princeton University
1983: Received Guggenheim Fellowship
: Became American Citizen
: Received Artist's Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts
1990: Monograph published by Hudson Hills Press, New York
1992: Revisited Morocco in December to make a film on Matisse for the BBC
1993: First exhibition of the Catherine Paintings in the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
1994: Made first paintings in new studio in Barcelona in the summer
: Participated in the Joseph Beuys Lectures, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
: Participated in a colloquium held in conjunction with the exhibition 'Richard Pousette, Dart (1916, 1992)' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
: Moved into a new studio in Chelsea, New York City
: Made an honorary member of the London Institute
2002: Started working as a part-time professor of painting at Akademie der Bildenden KÃƒÂ¼nste, Munich, Germany
2003: Massachusetts College of Art, Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree
: National University of Ireland, Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree
2006: Sean Scully Room, A room dedicated to Sean ScullysÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ work, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland, opened on May 5th

Exhibitions

2013: EDGE, ORDER, RUPTURE, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
2012 - 2013: Sean Scully: Iona & Related Paintings, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
2012: Sean Scully: Retrospective, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Switzerland (solo)
: Sean Scully: Grey Wolf – Retrospektive, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland and Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria (solo)
: Sean Scully: Doric, Benaki Museum of Art, Athens, Greece and Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain (solo)
: Sean Scully: Luz del Sur, Alhambra – Palacio Carlos V, Granada, Spain (solo)
: “The Cracked Looking Glass,” Main Gallery and Milberg Gallery, Firestone Library, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
: “Photography,” LA Louver Gallery, Venice, California
: “The Shadow of the Corner of the Wall: Liliane Tomasko and Sean Scully,” Das Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany
: “The Minimal Gesture,” Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2011: "Sean Scully. Works on Paper," Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, The George Washington University, Washington D.C. (solo)
: “Creating the New Century: Contemporary Art from the Dicke Collection,” The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio
: “Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
: “Hugh Lane Contemporary Print Collection,” The Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Ireland
: “Memento,” 401 Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
: “Works of Art from the UBS Art Collection,” Der OpernTurm, Frankfurt, Germany
: “From Homer to Hopper: American Watercolor Masterworks from the Currier Museum of Art,” Manchester, New Hampshire
: “More Photographs Than Bricks,” The George Washington University, Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, Washington, D.C.
: Summer Exhibition 2010,” Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
: “Decameron,” New York Studio School, New York, New York
: “The Pictorial World of Sean Scully,” Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
: “17 Malern,” Bayerische Akademia der Schonen Kunst, Munich, Germany
: “Building a Collection: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings,” National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
: “Works from the 1980s,” Organized by Visual Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland and Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, United Kingdom (solo)
: “Sean Scully: Works from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,” Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas (solo)
: “Iona,” Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (solo)
: Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England (solo)
2010: “Liliane,” Alexander and Bonin, New York, New York (solo)
: “The Moderns: The Arts in Ireland from the 1900s to the 1970s,” Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
: “Drei. Das Triptychon in der Moderne,” Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
: “Synchronies: Undercurrents in European and American Postwar Abstraction,” Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, California
: “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 (solo)
: “Paintings from the 80’s,” Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England (solo)
: ContemporainAm Tunnel & Espace Edward Steichen, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
: “Regards Croises. Les oeuvres de la BEI a la BCEE,” Galerie d’Art
: “Building with Colour,” Gallery North, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
: “Pop to Present,” Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, California
: “Preview for upcoming exhibitions,” Jamileh Weber Gallery, Zurich, Swirtzerland
: “Histories of the Frontier,” Institut Valencia d'Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain
: Shaping Reality: Geometric Abstraction after 1960,” Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
: “Modern & Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art,” Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
: Walter Storms Galerie, Munich, Germany (solo)
2009: “Recent Paintings,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York (solo)
: Sean Scully: The Art of the Stripe, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA, January 12 - March 9 (solo)
: Sean Scully: La surface peinte, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France, 16 May - 3 July (solo)
: Sean Scully, Galeria Carles Taché, Barcelona, Spain, 27 November (solo)
: “Monet-Kandinsky-Rothko and Aftermath: Paths of Abstract Painting,” Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria
: “Abstraction in the IVAM Collection,” Institut Valencia d'Art Moderne, Valencia, Spain
: “The Art of the Stripe,” Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (solo)
: “The Painted Surface,” Galerie Lelong, Paris, France (solo)
2008: “The Prints of Sean Scully,” The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York (solo)
2007 - 2008: Sean Scully: A Retrospective, curated by Danilo Eccher, Miro Foundation, Barcelona, June 28 – September 30; travelled to: Musee d’Art Moderne de Saint Etienne Metropole, February 8 - April 6; MACRO al Mattatoio, Rome, April 18 - August 17 (solo)
: The Prints of Sean Scully, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, USA, May 18 - October 08, travelled to: Naples Museum of Art, Florida, USA, November 10 - January 13; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota, USA, March 01 - May 04; Hyde Collection, Glens Fall, New York, USA, September 05 - November 02 (solo)
: “Walls of Aran,” Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
: “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
: “Samuel Beckett,” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
: “The Jeff Baldus Collection,” Clausen Art Gallery, Briar Cliff University, Sioux City, Iowa
: “Photos and Prints,” Galerie Kluser 2, Munich, Germany (solo)
: 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 (solo)
: “Aran,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York (solo)
2007: Sean Scully; Walls of Aran, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, May 4 – June 2 (solo)
: Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
2006 - 2007: Sean Scully, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, November 22 - January 20 (solo)
2006: Sean Scully, L.A. Louver, California, USA, May 12 - June 30 (cat.) (solo)
2005 - 2007: Wall of Light, Phillips Collection, Washington DC, October 22, 2005 – January 8, 2006; The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Dallas, Texas, February 12 – May 28; Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, June 26 – September 3; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA, September 25 – January 14, 2007 (solo)
: Minimalism and After IV, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
: Summer Group show, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, August 12 – September 03
: Points of View: Landscapes and Photography, Galerie Lelong, New York
: The Giving Person, curated by Lorand Hegyi, Fondazione Culturale Edison, Naples, Italy
: Western Biennale of Art: Art Tomorrow, curated by Edward Lucie-Smith, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, California
: Eye of the Storm: The IMMA Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, December 13, 2005 – April 17, 2006
: SIAR 50, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, November 17 – February 19
: Sean Scully, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK, May 25 – July 23 (cat.) (solo)
: Sean Scully, Graphic Works, Fenton Gallery, Cork, Ireland, March 16 – April 9 (solo)
: Sean Scully, Fotografias, Galeria Carles Taché, Barcelona, Spain, May – July (cat.) (solo)
: Sean Scully, Faith – Hope - Love, Augustinerkloster, Erfut, Germany, March – April (solo)
: Sean Scully, le centre de la Gravure et de l’image imprimée, La Louviere, Belgium, May 14 – August 14 (solo)
: Sean Scully: New Work, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA, May 12 – June 25 (solo)
: Soltano Un Quadro Al Massimo, Accademia Tedesca Roma Villa Massimo, Rome, Italy, September 14 – October 21
2005: Sean Scully, Sala Alcala 31, Madrid, Spain, October 27 – December 11 (solo)
: Los Monocromos: De Malevisch Al Presente, Museo Nacional Centro de Art Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, June 15 – September 06
: Paintings From the 70s, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK, March 30 – April 8 (solo)
: Sean Scully, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany, April 5 – April 24 (solo)
: Sean Scully, Centro Jose Guerrero and Federico Garcia Lorca Foundation, Granada (cat.), May 16 – July 4 (solo)
: Sean Scully, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, March 31 – April 30 (solo)
: Sean Scully: Winter Robe, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France, May 13 – July 10 (cat.) (solo)
: Sean Scully: Holly Paintings, Kunstverein Aichach, Germany, May 16 – June 13 (solo)
2004: Sean Scully: Body of Light, National Gallery of Australia, July 23 – October 10 (solo)
: Sean Scully: Prints 1983- 2003, Irish Cultural Centre, Paris, France (solo)
2003 - 2004: Sean Scully, Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tempere, Finland; Stiftung Weimarerer Klassik, Weimar, Germany; National Gallery of Austria, Canberra, September 13, 1993 – February 15, 2004 (cat.) LA Louver Gallery, California, November 21 – January 3 (solo)
2003: Sean Scully: Wall of Light, Figures, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK, June 11 – July 12 (cat.) (solo)
: Sean Scully, Galeria Carles Taché, Barcelona, Spain (cat,) May 19 – end of July (solo)
: Sean Scully, Hôtel des Arts, Toulon, France, April 26 June - 15 (cat.) (solo)
: Augeenblik, Foto/ Kunst, Sammlung Essl, Klosternberg, Austria (cat.)
: 117th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, USA
: Margins of Abstraction, curated by Robert Knafo, Kouors Gallery, New York, USA
: Fundação, Bienal De São Paulo, 25 Bienal De São Paulo, Brazil (cat.)
: Sean Scully, Centro de Art Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (cat.) (solo)
: No Object, No Subject, No Matter… Abstraction in the IMMA Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Ireland
: Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany, April 19 – June 26 (cat.) (solo)
: Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany, April 19 – June 26 (cat.) (solo)
: Sean Scully, Gemaldegalerie Neue Meister Staaliche (solo)
2002: Sean Scully, Camara de Comercio de Cantabria, Santander, Spain; Ayuntamiento de Pamplona, Polvorin de la Cindadela (cat.) (solo)
: Sean Scully, LA Louver Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, October 25 – November 30 (solo)
2001 - 2002: Sean Scully: Wall of Light, curated by Michael Auping, Museo De Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico (cat.) (solo)
: Watercolor: In the Abstract, curated by Pamela Auchincloss, Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York; Michael C Rockefeller Arts Center Gallery, USA; Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio, USA; Ben Shan Gallery, New Jersey, USA; Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, DePaul University, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
: A Century of Drawing, The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA (cat.), November 18 – April 7
: Sean Scully; walls/windows/horizons, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, USA, September 8 – October 8 (solo)
: Sean Scully, Le Musée Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (solo)
: Paintings, Drawings, Photographs 1990, 2001, Kunstsammlung, Nordrhein, Westfallen – Düsseldorf, Germany: Haus de Kunst, Munich, Germany; I.V.A.M, Valencia, Spain, (cat.) (solo)
: New Works on Paper and Photographs, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA, March 10 – April 21 (solo)
: Sean Scully: Light and Gravity, Knoedler + Company, USA, New York, USA, March 8 – April 28 (cat.) (solo)
2001: Sean Scully, Barcelona Etchings for Frederico Garcia Lorca Instituto Cervantes, London, UK (solo)
: Sean Scully Work on Paper, Rex Irwin Gallery, Woollahra, Australia; Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne, Australia; Galerie Lelong, Paris, France (solo)
: Sean Scully Photographies, Galerie de l‘ancien college Ecole municipale d’Arts plastiques, Chatellerault, France (solo)
: Graphics, Galleria d’Arte A+A, Venice, Italy (solo)
: Sean Scully, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK (solo)
: Sean Scully, Galeria Carles Taché, Barcelona, Spain, March – April (solo)
: Estampes 1983, 1999, Musee des Beaux Arts de Caen, Caen, France (cat.) (solo)
: L’Ombra Della Ragione, Galleria D’Arte Moderna Bologna, Bologna, Italy, May 13 – October 29
: September Selections, Knoedler & Company, New York, USA
: On Canvas: Contemporary Painting from the Collection, The Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
2000: New Works, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich, Switzerland
: Drawings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; Galeria Carles Taché, Barcelona, Spain (cat.) January 11 – March 12 (solo)
1999 - 2000: Sean Scully: Barcelona Paintings, Galerie Bernd Klüser, München, Germany, December 1999 – February 2000 (cat.) (solo)
: Sean Scully, Galerie Le Triangle Blue, Stavelot, Belgium (solo)
: Geometry as Design: Structures of Modern Art from Albers to Paik, Neue National Galerie, Berlin, Germany
: Side by Side, Knoedler + Company, New York, USA
: 1999 Drawings, Alexander + Bonin, New York, USA, December 11 – January 22
: Drawing in the Present Tense, Parsons School of Design, New York, USA and (2000) Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, Connecticut, USA
: Unlocking the Grid: Concerning the Grid in Recent Painting, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, USA
: Signature pieces: Contemporary British Prints and Multiples, Alan Christea Gallery, London, UK
: The Essl Collection: The First View, Museum Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuberg, Vienna, Austria, November 6, 1999 – October 31, 2000
: Sean Scully, Galeria Antonia Puyo, Zaragoza, Spain (solo)
: Sean Scully: Work From Garner Tullis Workshop, Galerie Kornfeld, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
: Sean Scully, Mira Goddard gallery, Toronto, Canada (solo)
: Sean Scully, Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin, Germany (solo)
: Sean Scully, Bawag Foundation, Vienna, Austria, June 4 – August 29 (cat.) (solo)
: Sean Scully, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany; Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK (solo)
: Sean Scully, Galerie Weinberger, Copenhagen, Denmark (solo)
: Sean Scully: New Paintings and Works on Paper, Danese Gallery and Gallery Lelong, New York, USA; South London Gallery, London, UK, June 16 – August 1 (cat.) (solo)
: Print Retrospective, Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, Austria; Musee du Dessin et de l’Estampe Originale, Gravelines, France; Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (catalogue raisonne) (solo)
1999: Sean Scully, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France, March 4 – April 17 (cat.) (solo)
: En Norsk Samling Au Europeisk Kunst, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Norway
: Matrix Berkley 1978, 1998, University of Califonia, Berkley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkley, California, USA
: Sarajevo 2000, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wein, Vienna, Austria
: Acquisitions 1997, Le Conseil General du Val de Marne FDAC, exhibited at Hôtel du Departemnt, Creteil, France
: Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA (cat.)
: Group Exhibition, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
: Sean Scully/ Lawrence Carroll, Lawing Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
: Jan Dibbets/ Sean Scully Fotografias, Galeria Estiarte, Madrid, Spain
: Large Scale Drawings, Danese Gallery, New York, USA
: Arterias: Collection Of Contemporary Art, Fundacio La Caixa Malmö Konstall, Malmö, Sweden
: On A Clear Day, Graphische Sammlung, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
: Photographies, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
: The Edward R. Collection: A Selection of Works, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida, USA
: Contemporary Art: The Janet, Wolfson de Botton Gift, Tate Gallery, London, UK
1998: Zeit und Materie, Baukunst, Cologne, Germany
: Singular Impressions: The Monotype in America, The National Museum of American Art, Washington DC, USA
: Thirty Five Years at Crown Point Press: Making Prints, Doing Art, The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, USA (cat.)
: The View From Denver: Contemporary American Art from the Denver Art Museum, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria (cat.)
: A Century of Irish Paintings: Selections from the Collection of the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland; The Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan; Yamanashi Perfectural Museum of Art, Yamanashi, Japan (cat.)
: Prints, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
: Prints, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
: The Pursuit of Painting, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
: British Arts Council Collection, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK
: After The Fall: Abstract Painting, Snug Harbour Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York, USA
: Sean Scully, Jamieh Weber gallery, Zurich, Switzerland, November 22 – February 28 (solo)
: Sean Scully, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA, September 6 – October 25 (solo)
: Sean Scully, Galeria DV, San Sebastian, Spain (cat.) (solo)
: Floating Paintings and Photographs, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA (solo)
: Sean Scully, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (solo)
: Recent Paintings, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France, March 20 – May 24 (cat.) (solo)
: Sean Scully 1982, 1996, Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, UK, June 7 – July 13 (cat.) (solo)
1997: Sean Scully 1987, 1997, Sala de Expositions Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain, March 13 – May 11; Salas del Palacio Episcopal, Plaza del Obispo, Malaga, Spain; Fundacio ‘la Caixa’, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, March 13 – May 11 (cat.) (solo)
: Sean Scully, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA (solo)
1996 - 2000: Works on Paper 1975, 1996, Graphische Sammlung, Munich, Germany; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; Henie+Onstad Art Centre, Hovikodden, Norway; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK; Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Art, Dublin, Ireland; Herning, Denmark; Milwaukee, USA; Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, USA; Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Albright, Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA (cat.) (solo)
1996 - 1997: Floating Paintings and Work on Paper, Galerie Nationale de Jeu de Paume, Paris, France; Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Linz, Austria; Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal (cat.) (solo)
: Nuevas Abstracciones, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Kunstalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany; Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
: Bare Bones, TZ Art, New York, USA
: Prints, Galerie Angelika Harthan, Stuggart, Germany (solo)
: Thinking Print, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
: Holländisches Bad: Radierungen zur Renaissaince einer Technik, Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany; Brect Haus, Weissensee, Berlin, Germany
: Festival de Culture Irlandaise Contemporaine, Ecoles des Beaux Arts, Paris, France
: Balancing Act, Room Gallery, New York, USA
: Sean Scully, Galeria Carles Taché, Barcelona, Spain (cat.) (solo)
: Sean Scully, Galerie Nationale du Jeude Paume, Paris, France, October 8 – December (solo)
: Pastels, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA (solo)
: Paintings and Work on Paper, Galeria d’Arte Moderna, Villa delle Rose, Bologna, Italy, May 31 – September 1 (cat.) (solo)
: Sean Scully, Editions T, Barcelona, Spain, February – April (cat.) (solo)
1996: Catherine Paintings, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg (cat.) May 23 – July 14 (solo)
: XV Salon des los 16, Museo de Antropologia, Madrid, Spain
: Sean Scully: The Beauty of the Real, Galerie Bernd Klüser, München, Germany, December 1995 – January 1996 (cat.) (solo)
1995 - 1996: Sean Scully: Twenty Years, Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA; High Museum of Modern Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Centre Cultural de la Fundació ‘La Caixa’, Barcelona, Spain; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland; Schirn Kunstalle, Frankfurt, Germany (cat.) (solo)
: Color + Structure, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
: New Publications, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, USA
: US Prints, Retretti Center, Punkaharju, Finland
: New York Abstract, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orelans, Louisiana, USA
: Seven From The Seventies, Knoedler Gallery, New York, USA
: Sean Scully, Waddington Galleries, London, UK, June 7 – July 8 (cat.) (solo)
: Sean Scully, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany (cat.) (solo)
: Sean Scully, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA, October 28 – December 16 (solo)
: Sean Scully, Galeria De l’Ancien College, Chatellerault, France (cat.) (solo)
1995: Sean Scully, Galeria El Dario Vasco, San Sebastian, Spain (cat.) (solo)
: Catherine Paintings, Kunstalle Bielefeld; Palais des Beaux Arts, Charleroi, Belgium (cat.) (solo)
1994 - 1995: Sean Scully: La Forma e lo Spirito, Galleria Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy, November 24 1994 – January 14 1995 (solo)
: Recent Acquisitions: Prints and Paintings, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
: British Abstract Art, Flowers East Gallery, London, UK
: L’Incanto e La Trascendenza, Galleria Civica de Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
: Recent Acquisitions: Paintings From the Collection, The Irish Museum of Art, Dublin, Ireland
: For 25 Years Brooke Alexander Editions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
: Contemporary Watercolours: Europe and America, UNT Art Gallery, Denton, Texas, USA
: Recent Painting Acquisitions, Tate Gallery, London, UK
: Sean Scully, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (solo)
: Sean Scully, Butler Gallery, Kiken Castle, Ireland (solo)
: Works on Paper, Knoedler and Company USA, New York, USA (solo)
1994: Sean Scully, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (cat.) (solo)
: 5 One Person Shows, Jamileh Weber Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
: 25 Years, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA (cat.)
: Partners, Annely Juda Fine Art, London, UK (cat.)
: Italia, America L’Astrazione Redefinita, Dicastro Cultura, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Republica di San Marino, Italy (cat.)
: American and European Works on Paper, Gallery Martin Wieland, Trier, Germany
: American and European Prints, Machida City Museum of Arts, Tokyo, Japan (cat.)
: Modernities, Baumgartner Galleries, Washington DC, USA
: Beyond Print, Tobor de Nagy Gallery, New York, USA
: Tutte Le Strade Portano A Roma, The Exhibition Center of Rome, Rome, Italy
: Sean Scully, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany (cat.) (solo)
: Sean Scully, Waddington Galleries, London, UK (solo)
: Catherine Paintings, Fort Worth Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, May 16 – July 25 (cat.) (solo)
1993: Sean Scully, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA, May 1 – June 26 (solo)
: Drawing in Black and White, The Museum of Modern Art, The New York Grolier Club, New York, USA (cat.)
: 44th Annual Academy, Institute Purchase Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Galeria Sergio Tossi, Prato, Italy (cat.)
: Monotypes from Garner Tullis Workshop, SOMA Gallery, San Diego, California, USA
: Monotypes, Woodcuts, Drawings, Europaische Akademie Fur Bildende Kunst, Trier, Germany
: Painted on Press: Recent Abstract Print, Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
: Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
: Color Block Prints of the 20th Century, Associated American Artists, New York, USA (cat.)
: Behind Bars, Thread Waxing Space, New York, USA (cat.)
: Geteilte Bilder, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (cat.)
: Recent Abstract Painting, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
: Collaboration in Monotype from the Garner Tullis Workshop, Sert Gallery, Carpenter Centre for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
: Sean Scully, Waddington Galleries, London, UK, November (cat.) (solo)
: Sean Scully, The Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (solo)
: Sean Scully, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA (solo)
: Woodcuts, Stephen Solovy Fine Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA (solo)
: Woodcuts, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA, January 31 – March 7 (solo)
: Prints and Related Work, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, USA (solo)
: Woodcuts, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1992: Prints, Weinberger Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (solo)
: Four Series Of Prints, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
1991: Paintings and Works on Paper, Jamieh Weber Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland (cat.) (solo)
: Small Format Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
: Post-modern Prints, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
: La Metafisica Della Luce, John Goode Gallery, New York, USA, curated by Demetrio Paparoni
: Sean Scully/Donald Sultan; Abstraction/ Representation, Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford University, Stanford, California (cat.)
: Geometric Abstraction, Marc Richards Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA
1990: Sean Scully, Karsten Greve Gallery, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: Drawings: Joseph Beuys, Paul Rotterdam, Sean Scully, Arnold Herstand, & Company, Anthony Ralph Gallery, New York, USA (cat.)
: Artists in the Abstract, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA (cat.)

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
: The St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
: San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, USA
: Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. USA
: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, USA
: The DG Bank Collection, Frankfurt, Germany
: Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
: Council of National Academic Awards, London, UK
: Contemporary Arts Society, London, UK
: Consejeria de cultura, Santander, Spain
: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA
: Ceolfrith Art Center, Sunderland, UK
: Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida, USA
: Phillip Morris Inc., New York, USA
: Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA
: Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
: Chemical Bank, New York, New York, USA
: Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, USA
: Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
: Albright, Knox Gallery, Buffalo, USA
: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
: Mellon Bank, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
: High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA
: Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York, USA
: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
: First Bank Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
: Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, California, USA
: Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA
: The Phillips Collection, Washington DC, USA
: Paine Webber Group, Inc., New York, USA
: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA
: Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
: Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, France
: Saastamoisien Saatio, Helsinki, Finland
: Ruhr Universitat Bochum, Germany
: Northern Arts Association, Newcastle, upon, Tyne, UK
: Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Linz, Austria
: Museum fur Sub, Kultur, Berlin, Germany
: Museum Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern, Germany
: Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
: Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland
: Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
: Zentrum fur Kunst und Medien Technologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
: Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
: University of Limerick, Ireland
: Ulster Museum, Belfast, Ireland
: The Tate Gallery, London, UK
: Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
: Stattsgalerie, Stuttgard, Germany
: Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
: Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan
: Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain
: The British Council, London, UK
: Sammlung Essl-Vienna, Austria
: Kunstammlung, Nordrhein, Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
: Bayrische Staatsgemaeldesammlung, Munich, Germany
: Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
: Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
: Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow, UK
: Hotel des Arts, Toulon, France
: Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, Austria
: Gallery of Modern Art Laszlo Vass Collection, Veszprem, Hungary
: Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
: Foundation Stiftelesen Focus-Boras, Sweden
: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
: Eastern Arts Association, Cambridge, UK
: Musee de Val de Marne, Ivry, sur, seine, France
: Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
: Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
: Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
: Leicestershire Educational Authority, Leicester, UK
: Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, upon, Tyne, UK
: Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
: Kunst und Museumsverein Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
: Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
: Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, 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
: Sean Scully: The Architecture of Colour, Kunstmuseum, Liechtenstein
: Ingleby, Florence (ed.) Sean Scully: Resistance and Persistence, Selected Writings, published by Merrell Publishers
: Sean Scully, with text of a lecture given by Sean Scully at the Institute Valencia d’Art Modern, May 04 2004, Ingelby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
: Sean Scully: Fotografias, text by Mia Fineman, Galeria Carles Taché, Barcelona, Spain
2005: Wall of Light, essays by Michael Auping, Stephen Bennett Phillips, and Anne Straus. The Phillips Collection, Rizzoli, New York, USA
: Sean Scully: Paintings and Works on Paper, essays by Edward King and William Feaver, interview by Liliane Tomasko, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Lakeland Arts Trust, Kendal, Cumbria, UK, March 21 – June 25
: Sean Scully: Body of Light, essays by Brian Kennedy, Timo
: Sean Scully, essays by Timo Vuorikoski, Donald Kuspit, Jürgen Habermas and Marjatta Saari, Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere, Finland; Stiftung Weimarer Klassik und Kunstsammlungen, Weimar, Germany
: The Colour of Time: The Photographs of Sean Scully, essays by Arthur C Danto and Mia Fineman, interview by Edward Lucie- Smith, edited by Garrett White, New York, Steidl, Göttingen, Germany
: Vuorikoski, Arthur C. Danto, Jürgen Habermas, Donald Kuspit, Liliane Tomasko and Shaune A. Laking, interview by Jörg Zutter, Thames and Hudson, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
: Sean Scully: Dedicado a Federico Garcia Lorca, Huerta de San Vincente, Granada, Spain
2004: Sean Scully, Winter Robe, interview by Michael Peppiatt and essay by Amin Zweite, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
: Carrier, David, Sean Scully, Thames and Hudson, London
2003: Sean Scully: Wall of Light, Figures, interview by Kevin Power, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
: Sean Scully, essays by Gilles Altieri, Pierre Wat, Francisco Jarauta, interview by Hans- Michael Herzog, Hôtel des Arts, Toulon, France
2002: Sean Scully: zu Gast in der Galerie Neue Meister, Staaliche Kunstammlungen, Dresden, Germany
: Barrett, Terry, Interpreting Art: Reflecting, Wondering, and Responding, McGraw Hill, New York, USA
: Sean Scully, Galeria Ramis Barquet, Monterrey, Mexico
: Sean Scully: Wall of Light, text by Ronaldo Brito, Centro de Arte Helio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
: Danto, Arthur C. Sean Scully: Light and Gravity, Knoedler & Company, New York, USA
: Sean Scully: Gemälde, Pastelle, Aquarelle, Fotografien 1990 – 2000, essays by Armin Zweite, Bernd Klüser, Francisco Jarauta, Maria Müller, interview by Hans Michael Herzog, published by Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf, Germany; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein – Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany; Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany; IVAM Centre Julio Gonzales, Valencia, Spain
2001: Sean Scully: Wall of Light/ Muro de Luz, text by Michael Auping, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico
: Sean Scully: Light to Dark text by Daniel Ababie, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
2000: Sean Scully, essay by Francisco Jarauta, Galeria Carles Taché, Barcelona, Spain
1999: Sean Scully: Barcelona Paintings and Recent Editions, essays by Sean Scully and Bernd Klüser, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
: Sean Scully: Prints, Catalogue Raisonné 1968 – 1999, Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, Austria; Musée du Dessin et de l’Etampe Originale, Gravelines, France; Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
: Sean Scully, essay by Edward Lucie- Smith, interview by Hans- Michael Herzog, South London Gallery in association with Timothy Taylor gallery, London, UK
: Sean Scully, text by John Yau, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
: Sean Scully, essay by Kevin Power, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
1998: Sean Scully, text by Helmut Friedel, interview by Hans- Michael Herzog, Bawag Foundation, Vienna, Austria
1997: Sean Scully, text by Jean Frémon, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
: Sean Scully: Paintings, essay by Mark Glazebrook, interview by Irving Sandler, Manchester City Art Galleries, The Pale Green Press, London, UK
: Sean Scully, essays by Francisco Jarauta, Kevin Power, Jean Louis Schefer, Sala de Exposiciones Rekalde
: Sean Scully: obra grafica recent, texts by Demetriou Paparoni and Sean Scully, Edicions T Galeria D’Art, Barcelona, Spain
: Sean Scully: Works on Paper1975 – 1996, edited by Michael Semff, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, Germany
: Sean Scully, essays by Danillo Eccher and David Carrier, interview by Hans- Michael Herzog, Galleria D’Arte Moderna Bologna, Charta, Milan, Italy
: Sean Scully, essays by Jean Louis Schefer, Xavier Girard, and Arthur C. Danto, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
1996: Sean Scully, Galeria Carles Taché, Barcelona, Spain
: Caldwell, John, The Collected Writings of John Caldwell, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, USA
1995: Sean Scully: Vint Anyys, 1976 – 1995, Fundació ‘La Caixa’, Barcelona, Spain
: Sean Scully: The Beauty of the Real, essay by Bernd Klüser, interview by Hans- Michael Herzog, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
1994: Sean Scully: La Forma e lo spirito, text by Demetrio Paparoni, Galleria Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
: Carrier, David, The Aesthetic in the City: The Philosophy and the Practice of American Abstract Painting in the 1980s, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
: Sean Scully: Paintings 1971 – 1981, essays by Sam Hunter and Joseph Maschek, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
1993: Sean Scully: The Catherine Paintings, essays by Carter Ratcliff, Arthur C. Danto, Steven Henry Madoff, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, USA
1992: Sean Scully, essay by Paul Bonaventra, Waddington Galleries, London, UK
1991: Sean Scully: Prints from the Garner Tullis Workshop, Garner Tullis, New York, USA
1988: Sean Scully, essays by Takashi Nibuya and John Loughery, interview by Kazu Kaido, Fuji Television Gallery Co. Ltd. Tokyo, Japan
1985: Sean Scully, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA