SEAN SCULLY
Over the last five decades, Sean Scully (b. 1945) has developed a distinguished and prolific body of work through his distinct approach to contemporary abstraction. Shifting the paradigm in American abstraction from Minimalism and its reduced vocabulary, to an emotional form of abstraction, Scully’s practice offers a return to metaphor and spirituality as found in the European painting tradition. Spanning painting, drawing, sculpture and photography, Scully’s works capture both the tonality of the visual world and human experience. Scully incorporates his sense of physical dynamism with influences drawn from the legacy of Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Henri Matisse and Piet Mondrian, resulting in works that are as monumental in scale as they are in emotional poignancy.
Scully’s abstract compositions are evocative of architectural structures as much as forms in nature: horizon lines, meeting points between earth and sky, rock formations, nature and buildings. ‘I’m trying to turn stone into light,’ he explains of his practice. Often comprised of coloured blocks, stripes or bands arranged on horizontal and vertical axes, these seemingly solid bricks of colour allow light to creep in through the cracks, grounding vast scale and gesture with a visual delicacy and sense of vulnerability.
‘The freedom Scully had sought in abstract painting to communicate the richness of experience – of memory and emotion – compelled him to also find a way to invest it with metaphor, to endow it with a narrative structure, and to connect it with the world. This was the crux of his argument with what he saw as the hermetic and self-referential nature of Minimalism, concluding that the movement had lost its energy and its sense of direction.’
T. Rub, in Sean Scully: The Shape of Ideas, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020
Image: Dark Yet 8.15.23, 2023, oil on aluminium, 215.9 x 190.5 cm.; 85 x 75 in. © Sean Scully. Photo: def image
Artist Interview
Selected Works
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
Biography
VITA
1945
Born in Dublin, Ireland
1962–1965
Central School of Art, London
1965–1968
Croydon College of Art, London
1968–1972
Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne
Lives and works between New York, USA; Bavaria, Germany; Aix-en-Provence, France; and London, UK
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Abbott Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection, Little Rock
ARS AEVI Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of Ontario
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Institute of Chicago
Artisan Museum, Tokyo
Arts and Humanities Research Council, Bristol
Arts Council of Great Britain, London
AXA Belgique, Brussels
Banque Européenne d’Investissement, Luxembourg
BAWAG Foundation, Vienna
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Birmingham Museum of Art
British Council, London
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradform Museums & Gardens, West Yorkshire
Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image Imprimee, La Louviere
Centre National des Artes Plastiques, Paris
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Chemical Bank, New York
Cincinnati Art Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Colección Conei, Barcelona
Consejería de Cultura, Santander
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Council of National Academic Awards, Arts & Humanities Research Council Art Collection, Bristol
Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork
Dallas Museum of Art
David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence
Denver Art Museum
De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg
Detroit Institute of Arts
Des Moines Art Center
Deutsche Bank, London
Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane,
DZ Bank AG Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt
Eastern Arts Association, Cambridge
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, de Young Museum
First Bank of Minneapolis
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge
Foundation Stiftelsen Focus, Boras
Fundación “la Caixa”, Barcelona
Fundación Allorda-Derksen, Barcelona
Fundación Bancaja, Valencia
Fundación Caixa Galicia, La Coruña
Fundación Grupo Urvasco (Homage to Chillida Collection), Vitoria-Gasteiz
Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Fondazione, Torino Musei
Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Hilti Art Foundation, Schaan
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover
Hôtel des Arts, Toulon
Hunterian Art Galery, Glasgow
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Centre Julio González, Valencia
Jean-Michel Cazes, Château Cordeillan-Bages, Pauillac
JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, New York
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City
Kunst- und Museumsverein Wuppertal
Kunsthalle Bielefeld
Kunsthaus Zürich
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
La Colombe d’Or, St. Paul de Vence
La Fondation Edelman, Lausanne
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
Langen Foundation, Neuss
Lászlo Vass Collection, Veszprém
Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
Leicestershire Educational Authority
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
LWL - Museum for Art and Culture, Münster
Malaysian Exchange of Securities Dealing and Automated Quotation Collection, New York
Manchester City Art Gallery
Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation for the Arts, Bloomfield Hills
Mellon Bank, Pittsburgh
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley
Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine
Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole
Musée de Roland Garros, Paris
Musée du Dessin et de l’Estampe Originale, Gravelines
Musée Jenisch, Vevey
Museo Chillida-Leku, Hernani
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey
Museo de Arte Moderna di Bologna
Museo de Arte Moderno, Col. Bosques de Chapultepec
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Museu de Montserrat, Abadia de Montserrat, Barcelona
Museum Folkwang, Essen
Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna
Museum Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Museums Sheffield
Nagoya City Art Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
National Museum Cardiff
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
Neue Pinakothek, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich
New Orleans Museum of Art, Besthoff Sculpture Garden
Northern Arts Association, Newcastle upon Tyne
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
Norwich Castle Museum
NSU Art Museum, Ft. Lauderdale
Open Museum, Environmental & Heritage Resource Centre, Leicestershire
Orlando Museum of Art
Paine Webber Group, Inc, New York
Pérez Art Museum, Miami
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philip Morris, Inc., New York
Phoenix Art Museum
Pier Arts Centre, Orkney
Power Institute, University of Sydney
Princeton University Art Museum
Reader's Digest Art Collection, New York
Ruhr Universitat, Bochum
Saastamoisen Säätiö, Helsinki
Sala Rekalde, Bilbao
Sammlung Essl, Vienna / Klosterneuburg
Sammlung Ströher, Darmstadt
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere
Seattle Art Museum
Shearson Lehman American Express Inc., New York
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Staatliche Museen Kassel, Neue Galerie, Hessen
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
Städel Museum, Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
Stanford University
Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
Tate, London
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
The Albertina Museum, Vienna
The British Museum, London
The Broad Art Foundation, Los Angeles
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
The GAP Collection, San Francisco
The Gertsev Collection, Moscow
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
The Maramotti Collection, Reggio Emilia
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The National Gallery, London
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham
Toledo Museum of Art
Tokyo International Forum Art Collection
UBS Art Collection, New York and Zurich
Ulster Museum, Belfast
University of Limerick
University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne
Van Cliburn Foundation, Fort Worth
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Willy Michel Collection, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Beyond the Line: From Finite to Infinite, From Physics to Metaphysics (duo show with Stefan Gierowski)
Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw
Away from the Sea
He Art Museum, Foshan
Carbon and Air
Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Blur The Edges, Love One Another
Château d’Oiron, Plaine-et-Vallées
Procession
Église Saint-Nicolas de Caen
Uninsideout
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Richter/Scully. Celestial Mechanics: form and future in the works of Gerhard Richter & Sean Scully
The Asia Society, Hong Kong;
Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong
Géographies
Ludwig Museum, Koblenz
Dark Yet (catalogue)
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2023
Wall of Light Land
Lisson Gallery, Beijing
Géographies
Passerelle Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brest
LA Deep
Lisson Gallery, Los Angeles
Jack the Wolf (with Oisin Scully)
Cheim & Read, New York
Arles Nacht Vincent
Collection Lambert, Avignon
Landline Weave
Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Smaller Than The Sky
Houghton Hall, Norfolk
2022
Material World
Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen
Sean Scully: Passenger – A Retrospective
Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art
Sean Scully: Painting and Sculpture
Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej (CSW), Toruń
SQUARE
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Song of Color
Langen Foundation, Neuss
Sean Scully: The Shape of Ideas
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Bodies of Color
KUNSTWEK Sammlung Klein, Eberdingen-Nussdorf
The Shadow of Figuration
Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
A Wound in a Dance with Love
Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna
Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong
Big Small
Lisson Gallery, East Hampton
2021
Sean Scully: Passenger – A Retrospective
Benaki Museum, Athens
Wall Big And Small
Lisson Gallery, East Hampton
Overlay
Kewenig Galerie, Berlin
Sean Scully: The Shape of Ideas
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Standing on the Land
Pilane Sculpture Park, Klövedal
Dark Windows
Lisson Gallery, New York
The 12 / Dark Windows
Chelsea Studio, New York
Entre ciel et terre / Between Heaven and Earth
Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Eleuthera
Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2020
Passenger – A Retrospective
Museum of Fine Arts – Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Mirror Red
Lisson Gallery, East Hampton
Insideoutside
Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal
Opulent Ascension
LWL – Museum of Art and Culture, Münster
Aeternum
Forum Paracelsus, St. Moritz
Early Prints
Galerie Klüser, Munich
2019
Celtique
Château de Boisgeloup, Gisors
Eleuthera
The Albertina Museum, Vienna, travelled to:
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga;
Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Los años en Mexico
Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara
Human
Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
Vita Duplex
LWL – Museum for Art and Culture, Münster
PAN
Lisson Gallery, New York
Long Light
Villa Panza, Varese
Sea Star
National Gallery of Art, London
2018
THE LAND / THE LINE
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Uninsideout
Blain | Southern, London
Landline
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., travelled to:
The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Inside Outside
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
Matisse / Scully: Window
Kewenig Galerie, Berlin
Selected prints – etchings and lithographs
Galerie Boisserée, Cologne
Landlines and other recent works
De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg
Standing on the Edge of the World
Hong Kong Art Centre
Vita Duplex
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
No Words
Edward Hopper House, Nyack
Facing East
The State Russian Museum – The Marble Palace, St. Petersburg
Wall of Light
Mnuchin Gallery, New York
Cuadra San Cristóbal, Mexico City
1970
Laing Art Gallery and Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, travelled to:
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
2017
Facing East
Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
Before New York
Sean Scully Studio, Berlin
Lempertz, Brussels
Wall of Light Cubed
Cheim & Read, New York
Coming and Going
Sean Scully Studio, New York
2016
Horizon
Timothy Taylor, London
Metal
Galerie Lelong, Paris
Book
Garrison Art Center, Garrison
The Eighties
Mnuchin Gallery, New York
The Body and the Frame
Dům Umění České Budějovice, House of Art, Budweis
Circa 70
Cheim & Read, New York
Resistance and Persistence. Paintings 1967–2015
Museum of the Nanjing University of the Arts, travelled to:
Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan
2015
Etchings for Federico García Lorca
Cincinnati Art Museum
Four Days
Kewenig Galerie, Berlin
Different Places
Château La Cote, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade
Santa Cecilia de Montserrat
Home
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
Land Sea
La Biennale di Venezia ‘Collateral Events’, Palazzo Falier, Venice
Painting as an imaginative world appropriation
Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus
Estampe
Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal
Moving or Profound or Necessary or Beautiful, 1974–2015
Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo
Follow the Heart
CAFA – Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing
Landline
Cheim & Read, New York
2014
Follow the Heart
Shanghai Himalayas Museum
Galerie Klüser & Galerie Klüser 2, Munich
Figure / Abstract
Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, travelled to:
Kunsthalle Rostock;
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
Kind of Red
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
A New Master Among Old Masters
Christ Church Gallery, Oxford
Doric
Galerie Lelong, Paris
2013
Triptychs
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
Night and Day
Cheim & Read, New York
Die Radierungen / The Etchings
Galerie Boisserée, Cologne
Passages/Impressions/Surfaces
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
Change and Horizontals
Walter Storms Galerie, Munich, travelled to:
Galleria nazionale d’arte moderna, Rome;
The Drawing Center, New York
2012
The Evocative Capacity of Painting
Wooson Gallery, Daegu
The Verey Gallery, Eton College, Windsor
Notations
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Doric
Benaki Museum of Art, Athens, travelled to:
Institut Valencià d’Art Modern;
The Hugh Lane, Dublin;
MACM – Mougins Museum of Classical Art, Mougins
Luz del Sur
Alhambra – Palacio Carlos V, Granada
Grey Wolf – A Retrospective
Kunstmuseum Bern, travelled to:
Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz
Change and Horizontals
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, travelled to:
MIMA – Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
Works on Paper / Wall of Light Red Shade
Smith Gallery, Davidson College
2011
Paintings and Watercolors
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Cut Ground
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Etchings & Works on Paper
Rabley Contemporary Drawing Centre, Wiltshire
Works on Paper
Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, George Washington University
2010
Liliane
Alexander and Bonin, New York
Die Bilderwelt von Sean Scully
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
New York
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Iona
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Works from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
The Old Jail Art Center, Albany
Works from the 1980s
VISUAL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, travelled to:
Leeds Art Gallery;
Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen
2009
Recent Paintings
Galerie Lelong, New York
Recent Works
Walter Storms Galerie, Munich
Konstantinopel oder die versteckte Sinnlichkeit. Die Bilderwelt von Sean Scully (Constantinople or the Sensual Concealed. The imagery of Sean Scully)
MKM Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, travelled to:
Ulster Museum, Belfast
Paintings from the 90s
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
2008
Galeria Carles Taché, Barcelona
La surface peinte
Galerie Lelong, Paris
A Retrospective
Musée d’art Moderne, St. Etienne, travelled to:
MACRO al Mattatoio, Rome
The Art of the Stripe
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover
The Prints of Sean Scully
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, travelled to:
Hyde Collection, Glens Falls
2007
Photographien Und Graphik
Galerie Klüster, Munich
The Prints of Sean Scully
The Baker Museum, Naples
New Painting
Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zürich
The Prints of Sean Scully
SAAM Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Walls of Aran
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Aran Islands. A Portfolio of Photographs
Galerie Lelong, New York
Walls of Aran
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
A Retrospective
Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
Dedicado a Federio García Lorca
Instituto Cervantes Dublin
2006
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Recent Paintings
L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Die Architektur der Farbe
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
2005
Wall of Light
The Philips Collection, Washington D.C., travelled to:
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth;
Cincinnati Art Museum;
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
para Garcia Lorca
Sala de Exposiciones Acala 31, Madrid
Photographs
Galerie Carles Taché, Barcelona
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Mirrors 1982–2004 prints, editions & photographs
La Louviere Museum
New York
Galerie Lelong, New York
Malerie: kleine Formate
Staatliche Museen Kassel, Neue Galerie
Paintings and Works on Paper
Abbot Hall Art Gallery at Lakeland Artists Trust, Kendal
Graphic Works
Fenton Gallery, Cork
Faith Hope Love
Augustinerkloster, Erfurt
2004
Photographs
Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum
body of light
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Sala de Exposiciones Caja España-Duero, Salamanca
Holly Series
Kunstverein Aichach
Winter Robe
Galerie Lelong, Paris
Estampes 1983–2003
Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
Etchings for Federico Garcia Lorca
Huerta de San Vicente, Casa – Museum Federico Garcia Lorca Foundation, Granada
Tigres en el jardin
Centro Jose Guerrero, Granada
Paintings from the 70s
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Fotografias
Galerie Estiarte, Madrid
España-Spain-Spanien
Kunsthalle Harry Graf Kessler, Weimar
Photographs
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich
Serge Sorokko Gallery, San Francisco
2003
Prints and Photographs
Aleander and Bonin Gallery, New York
Photographs
L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice
Photographs
Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zürich
Works 1990–2003
Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere, travelled to:
Neues Museum Weimar
Wall of Light, Figures
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Galerie Carles Taché, Barcelona
Hôtel des Arts, Toulon
2002
L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice
Wall of Light
Centro de Arte Helio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro
Galerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Wall of Light
Museum de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
Institute Valencià d’Art Modern
Chamber of Commerce of Cantabria, Santander, travelled to:
Pamplona City Council, Polvorin de la Cindadela
2001
Wall of Light
Museo De Arte Contemporaneo De Monterrey
Musée Jenisch, Vevey
Walls, Windows, Horizons
David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University
Light to Dark
Galerie Lelong, Paris
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Galerie Klüser, Munich
Galerie Dittmar, Berlin
Paintings, Pastels, Watercolors, Photographs 1990–2000
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, travelled to:
Haus der Kunst, Munich;
Institut Valencià d’Art Modern
New Works on Paper
Galerie Lelong, New York
Light + Gravity: Recent Wall of Light Paintings
Knoedler & Company, New York
Work on Paper
Rex Irwin Gallery, Woollahra, travelled to:
Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne
2000
Estampes 1983–1999
Musee des Beaux-Arts de Caen
Photographies
Galerie de l’ancien college, Ecole municipale d’Arts plastiques, Chatellerault
Galeria Carles Taché, Barcelona
Graphics
A+A Galleria D’Arte, Venice
Prints 1994–1998
Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Sean Scully on Paper
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Works on Paper, 1975–1996
Buffalo AKG Art Museum
1999
Ten Barcelona Paintings
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
New Paintings
South London Gallery
New Paintings and Works on Paper
Danese Gallery and Gallery Lelong, New York
Prints 1968–1999
Graphische Sammlung Albertina Vienna, travelled to:
Musee du Dessin et de l’Estampe Originale, Gravelines
Monotypes and Color Woodcuts 1987–1993 from the Garner Tullis Workshop
Galerie Kornfeld, Zürich
Galerie Lelong Paris
1998
Pastels, Watercolors, Prints and Photos
Galerie Le Triangle Blue Art Contemporain, Stavelot
Galeria Antonia Puyo, Zaragoza
New Paintings and Works on Paper
Galerie Weinberger, Copenhagen
Mirror Images. Paintings & Works on Paper
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Bawag Foundation, Vienna
Works on Paper 1984–1996
Milwaukee Art Museum; Denver Art Museum, travelled to:
Denver Art Museum;
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge
Seven Mirrors
Harris and Lewis Stacks, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
Paintings and Works on Paper
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich
Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin
1997
Prints and Watercolors
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Paintings & Works on Paper
Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zürich
Obra Reciente: Pinturas, Acuarelas, Pasteles y Obra Grafica
Galeria DV, San Sebastian
Floating Paintings and Photographs
Galerie Lelong, Paris
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
1982–1996
Manchester City Art Galleries & The Whitworth Art Gallery
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Recent Paintings
Galerie Lelong, Paris
1989–1997
La Sala de Exposiciones REKALDE, Bilbao, travelled to:
Salas del Palacio Episcopal, Plaza del Obispo, Malaga
Fundacio ‘la Caixa’, Palma de Mallorca
Seven Unions
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
1996
Works on Paper 1975–1996
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, travelled to:
Museum Folkwang Essen;
Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Hovikodden;
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester;
Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Art, Dublin
Works on Paper 1984–1996
Herning Kunstmuseum, travelled to:
Buffalo AKG Art Museum
Graphische Arbeiten
Galerie Angelika Hartmann, Stuttgart
New Pastels
Galerie Lelong, New York
Galeria Carles Tache, Barcelona
Galleria d’Arte Moderna - Villa Delle Rose, Bologna
Paintings and Works on Paper
Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, travelled to:
Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz
Culturgest, Lisbon
The Catherine Paintings (1979–1995) & Watercolours
Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg
Obra grafica reciente
Edicions T Galeria D’Art, Barcelona
1995
The Beauty of the Real
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
The Catherine Paintings
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, travelled to:
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi
Twenty Years, 1976–1995
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., travelled to:
High Museum of Art, Atlanta;
Fundacio ‘la Caixa’ Centre Cultural, Barcelona;
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin;
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
Waddington Galleries, London
Galerie De L’Ancien College, Châtellerault
1994
Obra graphics 1991–1994
Galerie DV, San Sebastián
La forma e lo spirito / The Form and the Spirit
Galleria Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Paintings
Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle
Works on Paper
Knoedler & Co., New York
The Light in the Darkness
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
1993
Paintings. Works on Paper
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich
Heart of Darkness
Waddington Galleries, London
The Catherine Paintings
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
1992
Waddington Galleries, London
Paintings 1973–1992
Set Gallery, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica
Woodcuts
Stephen Solovy Fine Art, Chicago
Prints and Related Works
Brooke Alexander Editions, New York
Woodcuts
Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York
New Prints
Bobbie Greenfield Fine Art, Inc., Venice
New Graphic Works
Weinberger Gallery, Copenhagen
1991
Paintings and Works on Paper
Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zürich
1990
New Paintings
McKee Gallery, New York
Monotypes from the Garner Tullis Workshop
Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York
Galerie de France, Paris
Prints
M. Art, Tokyo
1989
Bilder und Zeichnungen
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne
Pastel Drawings
Grob Gallery, London
Paintings and Works on Paper 1982–1988
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, travelled to:
Centro de Arte Reina Sofia - Palacio de Velazquez, Parque del Retiro, Madrid;
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
New Paintings
David McKee Gallery, New York
1988
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
1987
The Art Institute of Chicago
Galerie Schmale, Düsseldorf
Matrix / Berkeley 112
University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley
Mayor Rowan Gallery, London
Recent Monotypes and Drawings
Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis
Monotypes
David McKee Gallery, New York
Monotypes from the Garner Tullis Workshop
Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara
1986
Paintings. 1985–1986
David McKee Gallery, New York
1985
Neue Arbeiten
Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, travelled to:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings and Drawings
Barbara Kraków Gallery, Boston
New Paintings
David McKee Gallery, New York
1984
Recent Paintings and Drawings
Juda Rowan Gallery, London
schilderijen – tekeningen
Galerij S65, Aalst
1983
David McKee Gallery, New York
1982
Recent Paintings
William Beadleston Inc., New York
1981
Recent Paintings
McIntosh / Drysdale Gallery, Washington D.C.
Paintings 1971–1981
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, travelled to:
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland;
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin;
Warwick Arts Trust, London
seven drawings, a wall painting: Spider* *to the people of Berlin – dedicated to Blinky Palermo
Museum für (Sub-) Kultur, Berlin
Recent Paintings
Rowan Gallery, London
Susan Caldwell Inc., New York
1980
Susan Caldwell Inc., New York
1979
Paintings 1975–1979
The Clocktower, New York
Recent Paintings
Rowan Gallery, London
Painting for One Place
Peter Nadin’s Space
1977
Paintings & Drawings
Rowan Gallery, London
Duffy / Gibbs Gallery, New York
1976
Works on Paper
La Torte Gallery, Santa Monica
1975
Recent Paintings
Rowan Gallery, London
Paintings 1974
La Torte Gallery, Santa Monica
1973
Recent Paintings
Rowan Gallery, London
1972
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
The Code Factory
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2023
das gelbe Licht 6 Uhr nachmittags
Remembering, envisioning, sensing landscape, curated by Christian Malycha
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Artists Chose Parrish
Parrish Art Museum, Long Island
1983 | 2023
Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
What We Learn from Land and Sea
Cycladic Arts, Paros
Explorations in Paint
Petworth House, West Sussex
Time Curve
EUM The Place, Seoul
ISLAND
Hang Tough Contemporary, Dublin
Time Gravity - 2023 Chengdu Biennale
Tianfu Art Park, Chengdu
2022
Hidden UK, Hidden Ireland: Curated by Sean Scully
Flowers Gallery, London
London Calling
Palazzo Cipolla, Rome
Living With Art That We Love
South Sketch Gallery, Chatsworth House
In Memory of Lawrence Weiner
Scully Tomasko Foundation, New York
Portals
Lisson Gallery, London
2021
From the Real: Lilane Tomasko & Sean Scully
Newlands House Gallery, Petworth
Andy Warhol to Cecily Brown: From the Collection of The Albertina
The Albertina Museum, Vienna
London Calling. British Art Today. From David Hockney to Idris Khan
Fundación Bancaja, Valencia
Experience & Expression
Detroit Institute of Arts Museum
2020
Principally Painting
Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Vaduz
30 Years in Paris
Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Double-M, Double-X
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Spectrum
Lisson Gallery, New York
Blue
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor
Systemrelevant? / Systemically Important?
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
Rythmes et vibrations
Galerie Lelong, Paris
Gifts to the Museum
Mystic Museum of Art
Living with art: Picasso to Celmins
British Museum, London
2019
In Honor of the New MoMA
Cheim & Read, New York
The Painting, A Permanent Challenge
CaixaForum, Madrid
Masterworks on Loan
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, Eugene
Lineup
Almine Rech, New York
O Della Materia Spirituale Dell’arte
MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
Shadowplay
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Iconographies. From Sorolla to Picasso and Valdés
Espai Carmen Thyssen, Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Girona
Painters Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and now
Lisson Gallery, New York
Sculpture Milwaukee
4th Street and Wisconsin Avenue
Blickachsen 12
Schmuckplatz, Bad Homburg Kurpark
Shaping Ireland: Landscapes in Irish Art
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
In Colour: Sickert to Riley
Charleston - Wolfson Gallery, East Sussex
Der duft der bilder – Werkke der colección olorVISUAL, Barcelona
Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst
Criminal Ornamentation: Yinka Shonibare MBE curates the Arts Council Collection
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Assemblage and Abstraction
Princeton University Art Museum
2018
Abstracted Wonders: The Power of Lines
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City
On the way through the collections of Centre for Engravings and Prints of La Louvière
Wallonie-Brussels Center, Paris
art and friendship
Green Door Gallery, Brooklyn
Catch It & Lose It
Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
Der duft der bilder – Werkke der colección olorVISUAL, Barcelona
Art and Culture Foundation Opelvillen Rüsselsheim
Beyond Borders
Villa Empain – Foundation Boghossian, Brussels
Doodle & Disegno
Blain | Southern, Berlin
Frieze Sculpture
Regent’s Park, London
Picasso. Gorky. Warhol. Sculptures and Works on Paper. Hubert Looser Collection
Kunsthalle Krems
Sculpture in the City
London
250th Summer Exhibition
Royal Academy of Arts, London
Conrad Shawcross / MATRIX 179
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Abstract / ion
Galerie Klüser 1 & 2, Munich
Unexpected Encounters
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
TWENTY
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
MURS
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen
As Far as the Eye Can See. New Insight into the Würth Collection
Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall
Hope is Strong
Millennium Gallery, Museums Sheffield
Splendeurs du pastel – De la Renaissance à nos jours
Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne
and per se and xxi - Sean Scully and Lilliane Tomask
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
and per se and: part XX – Celtic Head of a Man & Sean Scully
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
2017
DARK SQUARES
Walter Storms Galerie, Munich
40 years Walter Storms Galerie, Part II
Walter Storms Galerie, Munich
Abstraction: Resistance and Persistence
Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
Über den Umgang mit Menschen, wenn Zuneigun im Spiel ist. Sammlung Klein
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
The Horizontal
Cheim & Read, New York
LOOK! New Acquisitions
The Albertina Museum, Vienna
Abstract Painting Now!
Kunsthalle Krems
Against Landscape
Glasgow School of Art
beide | both
Kunstwerk – Sammlung Alison and Peter W. Klein, Eberdingen-Nussdorf
Restless Gestures. Works from the Hubert Looser Collection
The National Gallery, National Museum of Norway, Oslo
Summer Exhibition
Royal Academy of Arts, London
Art contemporani (1984–2010)
Centro Cultural Bancaja, Fundación Bancaja, Valencia
Park, Hong Kong
Lightstage, Hong Kong
Park, Guangzhou
Holly’s Gallery, Guangzhou
Minimalism / Post Minimalism
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro
The Power of the Avant-garde
The Feliks Jasienski Syolayski House, National Museum, Krakoq
International Ireland
Ulster Museum, Belfast
2016
Kircher, Léger, Scully & more
The Hilti Art Foundation, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
Night in the Museum: Ryan Gander curates the Arts Council Collection
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
Prints – Grafiken Von 1970 Bis 2015
Galerie Klüser & Galerie Klüser 2, Munich
ING Discerning Eye Exhibition
Mall Galleries, London
Wir sind was wir sammeln (We Are What We Collect)
Museum Lothar Fischer, Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz
Artists of the Gallery – Paintings, Drawings and Prints
Galerie Boisserée, Cologne
The Space Between Lines
Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
The Power of the Avant-garde
Centre for Fine Arts, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels
Architecture of Color: The Legacy of Luis Barragán
Timothy Taylor, New York
Sean Scully + Liliane Tomasko
Centro Cultural Bancaja, Fundación Bancaja, Valencia
Jacob Kainen, Thomas Nozowski, and Sean Scully
Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington D.C.
Just Black and White
Galerie Klüser, Munich
BASQUIAT, DUBUFFET, SOULAGES… A PRIVATE COLLECTION
The Foundation Hermitage, Lausanne
As If, at Home
Box Freiraum, Berlin
Summer Exhibition
Royal Academy of Arts, London
Modernist Intersections: The Tia Collection
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson
The Looser Collection. Dialogues
Museum Folkwang, Essen
Cher(e)s Ami(e)s: Hommage aux donateurs des collections contemporaines
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Material Considerations
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Group Show of Editions
Nicholas Gallery, Belfast
2015
Centennial Impressions from the Fort Worth Modern
Flatbed Press and Gallery, Austin
Meisterwerke III
Galerie Rother & Winter, Wiesbaden
Resistance and Persistence
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Euroscope
Cercle Cité, Luxembourg
Passion and Commitment: The Art of Luther Brady
FreedmanArt, New York
B[e]52!
Kunsthaus Maximilian, Munich
Surface Tension
The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
Stoney Road Press Limited Edition Books
Stoney Road Press, Dublin
Salas Municipales de Exposiciones de la Iglesia de las Francesas y del Museo de la Pasión
Galerie Lelong, Valladolid
The Patton Collection: A Gift to North Carolina
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Meet Me Halfway: Selections from the Anita Reiner Collection
Cristin Tierney, New York
Ein Moment-ewig
Sammlung Alison and Peter W. Klein, Eberdingen-Nussdorf
2014
5 Years Schellingstrabe
Walter Storms Galerie, Munich
Red, Yellow and Blue
Galleri Andersson Sandström – Umea
La matière noire (Black Matter)
Galerie Siman Blais, Montreal
The Phillips Collection: Picasso and Great Artists
The Daejeon Museum of Art, travelled to:
The Seoul Arts Center
Contemporary Art: Selections from the Museum’s Collection
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
As Exciting As We Can Make It: Ikon in the 1980s
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Accrochage – Neuankäfe und auswähtken Expinate aus den Bestäden
Galerie Boisserée, Cologne
Love Story – Sammlung Anne & Wolfgang Titze
Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna
Couleurs Contemporaines
Centre D’Art de Chateauvert
Summer Exhibition
Royal Academy of Arts, London
IMMA Collection: Conversations
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
The Artist’s Eye
Hunt Museum, Limerick
Exhibition of works from AIB collection in Ballsbridge
The Hunt Museum, Limerick
Group Show
L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice
B/W
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
The Klüser Collection: Back to the Future. Drawings from Tiepolo to Warhol
Kunsthalle Krems
Post-Picasso. Reaccions contemporaneas (Post-Picasso: Contemporary Reactions)
Museum Picasso, Barcelona
The Collection of the IVAM. XXV Anniversary
Institut Valenciá d’Art Modern
Reproductibilitat 1.1
Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern, Palma de Mallorca
Record’art
Caadaques Church, girona
Encounter: Royal Academy of Arts in China
Yuan Museum, Beijing
2013
Once upon a time and a very good time it was…
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Farbiges Grau
Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin
93
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporaánea, A Coruña
Marokkanische Teppiche und Die Kunst Der Moderne (Moroccan Carpets and Modern Art)
Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum, Munich
Linear Abstraction
Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Entre Bambalinas… Arte y Moda
Institut Valencià d’Art Modern
Summer Exhibition
Royal Academy of Arts, London
Edge, Oder, rupture
Galerie Lelong, New York
Window to the World: From Dürer to Mondrian and Beyond
Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne
2012
Stimuli: Prints and Multiples
Alexander and Bonin, New York
Window to the World: From Dürer to Mondrian and Beyond
Museo Cantonale d’Arte and Museo d’Arte, Lugano
“Chemin faisant. . .”
Musee jurassien des Arts, Moutier
Abstract Drawings
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Summer Exhibition
Royal Academy of Arts, London
Bremerhaven-Berlin-Aichach: 35 artworks from 3 places and 37 years
Zweigstelle Berlin
2011
Multiplicity
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
The Indiscipline of Painting: International abstraction from the 1960s to now
Tate St Ives, travelled to:
Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry
Body and Soul: Lawrence Carroll, Gotthard Graubner, Sean Scully
Hôtel des Arts, Toulon
Planos Sensibles
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Alicante
Gravity
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
The Minimal Gesture
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Eroi / Heroes
Galleria Civica D’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin
The Cincinnati Art Award: Gifts and Warhol Portraits of Doug Cramer
Cincinnati Art Museum
Zettels Traum: Die Zeichnungssammlung Bern und Verena Klüser
Von Der Heydt – Museum, Wuppertal
The Shadow of the Corner of the Wall. Liliane Tomasko and Sean Scully
Das Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
Selected Prints
Galerie Klüser, Munich
Photography: Richard Deacon, Frederick Hammersley, Sean Scully, Juan Uslé
L.A. Louver, Venice
Group Exhibition
Firestone Library, Rare Books & Special Collections, Princeton University
2010
The Moderns: The Arts in Ireland from the 1900s to the 1970s
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
The Hugh Lane Centenary Print Collection
Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar
Decameron
New York Studio School
Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Living with Art: Collecting Contemporary in Metro New York
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase
More Photographs Than Bricks
Luther W. Brady Art Gallery / George Washington University, Washington D.C.
From Homer to Hopper: American Watercolor Masterworks from the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester
17 Malern
Bayerische Akademie der Schönon Künste, Munich
2009
The Weight of Light
VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow
Passports
Whitechapel Gallery, London, travelled to
Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan
IN-FINITUM
53rd Venice Biennale, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
Historias del Confin
IVAM Institut Valencià d’Art Modern
Markierungen, Sean Scully & Jannis Kounellis
401 Contemporary, Berlin
1999 / 2000, Regard Sur La Collection Du Conseil Général Du Var
Hôtel des Arts, Toulon
Shaping Reality: Geometric Abstraction after 1960
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Pop to Present
Pigott Family Gallery, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University
Second Biennial of the Canary Islands
Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno – Los Balcones 11 y 13, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Regards Croises: Les oeuvres de la BEI à la BCEE
Galerie d’art contemporain – Am Tunnel & Espace Edward Steichen, Luxembourg
Drei. Das Triptychon in der Moderne
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
Building with Colour
Gallery North, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne
Kunstwerke aus der UBS Art Collection im Opern Turm Frankfurt
Der Opern Turm, Frankfurt
2008
Color into Light
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Made in Munich
Haus der Kunst, Munich
Hugh Lane Centenary Print Collection
The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
The 183rd Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, New York
Paper Trail II: Passing Through Clouds
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham
Rhythmus 21 – Positionen des Abstrakten
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
Unique Act: Five Abstract Painters
Dublin City Gallery, the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
Monet-Kandinsky-Rothko und die folgen Wege der abstrakten Malerei
BA-CA Kunstforum Wien, Palais Ferstel, Vienna
New Horizons: the Collection of the Ishibashi Foundation
Bridgestone Museum of Art, Ishibashi Foundation, Tokyo
MAXImin, Maximum Minimization in Contemporary Art
Fundación Juan March, Madrid
Art is for the Spirit: Works from The UBS Art Collection
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2007
La vida privada: Coleccion Josep Civit
Centro de Arte y Naturaleza – Fundación Beulas, Huesca
DE-Natured. Painting. Sculpture and Work on Paper from the Anderson Collection + the Anderson Graphic Arts Collection
San Jose Museum of Art
Frisch Gestrichen
Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf
Themes and Variations in Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Collecting the Past, Present, Future – Highlights of British Art from Turner to Freud
Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
Große Malerei
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz
Before and After Minimalism: A Century of Abstract Tendencies in the DaimlerChrysler Collection
Museu d’Art Espanyol, Palma de Mallorca
Contemporary Fundacion Juan March
Fundacion Juan March, Madrid
(I’m Always Touched) By Your Presence, Dear: New Acquisitions
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Samuel Beckett
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Radharc
Galway Arts Centre
Klasse Scully
whiteBOX e.v., Kultfabrik, Munich
2006
Sammlung Essl – Kunst der Gegenwart
Kunstverein Villa Wessel, Iserlohn
Big Juicy Paintings (and more): Selections from the Permanent Collection
Pérez Art Museum, Miami
Against the Grain, Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Homage to Chilida
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
The Unknown Masterpiece
ARTIUM Centro – Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporaneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz
Nomaden im Kunstsalon – Begegungen mit derModerne von Bayer bis Sol LeWitt
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz
2005
SIAR 50: 50 Years of Irish Art from the Collection of the Contemporary Irish Art Society
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Sean Scully, Stephan Girard, Nicolas Ruel
Galerie Orange Art Contemporain, Montreal, travelled to:
Galerie Lacerte Art Contemporain, Québec City
Solvano Un Quadro Al Massimo
Accademia Tedesca Roma Villa Massimo, Rome
Minimalism and After IV
Daimler Contemporary Berlin
Eye of the Storm: The IMMA Collection
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Nueva tecnologia-nueva iconografia-nueva fotografia
Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Cuenca
The Living Person
Fondazione Culturale Edison, Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, Naples
After The Thaw - Recent Irish Art from the AIB Collection
Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork
Western Biennale of Art: Art Tomorrow
John Natsoulas Center for the Arts, Davis
Von Paul Gauguin bis Imi Knobel, Werke aus der Hilti Art foundation
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
2004
Iranische Flachgewebe im Spiegel der Moderne
Historisches und Völkerkundenmuseum, St. Gallen
Beneath the Sky
Cavan County Museum, Ballyjamesduff
La Collection
Hôtel des Arts, Toulon
Destination Germany
Kunst Galerie Fürth
Nueva tecnologia-nueva iconografia-nueva fotografia
Museu d’Arte Español Contemporary, Palma de Mallorca
Matisse to Freud: A Critic’s Choice – The Alexander Walker Bequest
British Museum, London
Monocromos: De Malevich al Presente
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Behind Closed Doors
Katonah Museum of Art
In the time of shaking. Irish Artists for Amnesty International
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Views from an Island and Representing the Tain
Beijing World Art Museum, travelled to:
Shanghai Art Museum
Bearings: Landscapes from the IMMA Collection
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Picasso to Thiebaud
Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University
Masterprints
Sundsvalls Museum
2003
Grafiikkaa ja piirustuksia
Forum Box, Helsinki
Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Fund Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
The Museum Store Collects
Arizona State University Art Museum, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Tempe
Avant-garde und Tradition
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz
Human Stories – Photos and Paintings from the Essl Collection
The Ludwig Museum Budapest - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Taché a Pelaires (Carroll, Cragg, Kounellis, Rousse, Scully)
Pelaires Centre Cultural Contemporary, Palma de Mallorca
2002
110 Years: The Permanent Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Watercolor
New York Studio School
Colour / Concept
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Extranjeros – Los Otros Artistas Españoles
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia
No Object, No Subject, No Matter… Abstraction in the IMMA Collection
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
177th Annual Exhibition
National Academy of Design, New York
Epic Paintings from the Luther W. Brady Collection
Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, George Washington University, Washington D.C.
25 Bienal De São Paulo
Fundação Bienal De São Paulo
Augenblick, Foto / Kunst
Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, Vienna
The Rowan Collection: Contemporary British and Irish Art
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Profile of a Collection: The Gordon Lambert Trust Collection at IMMA
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Watercolor: In the Abstract
Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center, SUNY College at Fredonia, travelled to:
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown;
Ben Shahn Gallery, William Patterson University, Wayne;
Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
2001
A Century of Drawing: Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Watercolor: In the Abstract
The Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glen Falls
2000
Shifting Ground. Selected Works of Irish Art 1950–2000
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Import
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Une Ville – Une Collection
Centre de la Gravure et de I’Image Imprimee, La Louviere
Collection MMKSLW: Viena, de Warhol a Cabrita Reis
Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela
Von Albers bis Paik: Konstruktive Werke aus der Sammlung DaimlerChrylser
Haus für Konstruktive und Konkrete Kunst, Zürich
L’Ombra Della Ragione: L’Idea Del Sacro Nell’Identita Europa Nel XX Secolo
Galleria D’Arte Moderna Bologna
Drawing in the Present Tense
Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, travelled to:
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks
On Canvas: Contemporary Painting from the Collection
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
1999
Zeitschnitt 1900–2000: 100 Jahre, 100 Werke
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz
25 Jahre / 25th Anniversary
Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zürich
The Essl Collection: The First View
Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, Vienna
Drawing in the Present Tense
Parsons School of Design, New York
A Land of Heart’s Desire: 300 Years of Irish Art
Ulster Museum of Art, Belfast
The Art of Collecting
Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis
Geometrie als Gestalt: Strukturen der Modernen Kunst von Albers bis Paik: Werke der Sammlung DaimlerChrysler
Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatlich Museen zu Berlin
Unlocking the Grid. Concerning the Grid in Recent Painting
Main Gallery, University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Tore A. Holm’s Collection of Contemporary European Art – An Encounter between North and South
Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, Madrid
1998
Cleveland Collects Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
Lawrence Carroll and Sean Scully
Lawing Gallery, Houston
Sarajevo 2000
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wein, Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna
45th Corcoran Biennial
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Arterias: Collection of Contemporary Art Fundacio la Caixa
Malmö Konsthal
The Edward R. Broida Collection: A Selection of Works
Orlando Museum of Art
Zeit und Materie
Baukunst, Cologne
Welcome Back!
Denver Art Museum
Contemporary Art; The Janet Wolfson de Botton Gift
Tate Gallery, London
On a Clear Day
Graphische Sammlung, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
Acquisitions 1997
Hôtel du Departement, Creteil
En Norsk Samling Au Europeisk Kunst
Trondheim Kunstmuseum
1997
The Pursuit of Painting
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Thirty-Five Years at Corwn Point Press: Making Prints, doing Art
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., travelled to:
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
Singular Impressions: The Monotype in America
National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.
After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting Since 1970
Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbour Cultural Center, Staten Island
Holländisches Bad: Radierungen zur Renaissance einer Technik
Brecht-Haus-Weissensee, Berlin
A Century of Irish Paintings: Selections from the Collection of The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art
The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, travelled to:
The Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo;
Mitaka City Gallery of Art, Tokyo;
Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art
The View From Denver: Contemporary American Art from the Denver Art Museum
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wein, Vienna
British Arts Council Collection
Roal Festive Hall, London
1996
Holländisches Bad: Radierungen zur Renaissance einer Technik
Kunsthaus Hamburg
Thinking Print: Books to Billboards 1980–95
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Nuevas Abstracciones
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, travelled to:
Kunsthalle Bielefeld;
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona
estival de Culture Irlandaise Contemporaine
Ecoles des Beaux-Arts, Pari
XV Salon des los 16
Museo de Antropologia, Madrid
1995
An American Passion: The Susan Kasen Summer and Robert D. Summer Collection of Contemporary British Painting
Royal College of Art, London
New York Abstract
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
US Prints
Retretti Art Center, Punkaharju
1994
An American Passion: The Susan Kasen Summer and Robert D. Summer Collection of Contemporary British Paintin
McLellan Galleries, Glasgow
L’Incanto e la Trascendenza
Galleria Civica de Arte Contemporanea, Trento
Paper Under Pressure: Work in Collaboration with Garner Tullis
Sun Valley Center Gallery, Ketchum
For 25 Years: Brooke Alexander Editions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Contemporary Watercolors: Europe and America
University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton
Recent Painting Acquisitions
Tate Gallery, London
Recent Acquisitions: Paintings from the Collection
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
1993
The Turner Prize 1993
Tate Gallery, London
New Moderns
Baumgartner Galleries Inc., Washington D.C.
25 Years: A Retrospective
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
Italia-America L’astrazione Redefinita
Dicastero Cultura Moderna, Repubblica di San Marino
Tutte le Strade Portano A Roma
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
Drawing in Black and White
Museum of Modern Art, Grolier Club, New York
American and European Prints
Machida City Museum of Arts, Tokyo
1992
Verso Bisanzio, con disincanto
Galerie Sergio Tossi, Arte Contemporanea, Parto
Color Block Prints of the 20th Century
Associated American Artists, New York
Behind Bars
Thread Waxing Space, New York
Getelite Bilder: Das Diptychon in der neuen Kunst
Museum Folkwang Essen
Recent Abstract Painting: Ross Bleckner, Kenneth Dingwall, Susan Laufer, Ken Nevadomi, Sean Scully
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland
44th Annual Academy-Institute Purchase Exhibition
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
Monotypes, Woodcuts, Drawings
Europäische Akademie Fur Bildende Kunst, Trier
Painting on Press: Recent Abstract Prints
Madison Art Center
Whitechapel Open
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1991
Collaborations in Monotype from the Garner Tullis Workshop
Sert Gallery, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge
Moses, Richter, Scully
Louver Gallery, New York
Postmodern Prints
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1990
Sean Scully / Donald Sultan: Abstraction / Representation
Stanford University Art Gallery
1989
The 1980s: Prints from the Collection of Joshua P. Smith
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Essential Painting: Kelly, LeWitt, Mangold, Scully
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
The Elusive Surface: Painting in Three Dimensions
Albuquerque Museum
The Presence of Painting: Aspects of British Abstraction 1957–1988
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, travelled to:
Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne;
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham;
Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston
1988
The Presence of Painting: Aspects of British Abstraction 1957–1988
Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
Sean Scully & Jose Maria Sicilia
New Editions, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, travelled to:
New York
Sightings: Drawings with Color
Pratt Manhattan Gallery, Pratt Institute, New York, travelled to:
Instituto de Estudios Northeamericanos, Barcelona
1987
The Fortieth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Harvey Quaytman and Sean Scully
Ateneum, Helsinki Festival
Drawing from the 80 – Chatsworth Collaboration
Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh
Drawn-Out
Kansas City Art Institute
Magic in the Mind’s Eye: Part 1 & 2
Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Rochester
Logical Foundations
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1986
An American Renaissance in Art: Painting and Sculpture since 1940
NSU Art Museum, Ft. Lauderdale
After Matisse
Queens Museum, Corona, travelled to:
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk;
Portland Museum of Art;
Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach;
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.;
Dayton Art Institute;
Worcester Art Museum
Public and Private: American Prints Today
Brooklyn Museum of Art
CAL Collections 1
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
Structure / Abstraction
Hill Gallery, Birmingham
Detroiters Collect: New Generation
Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester
Recent Acquisitions
Contemporary Arts Center, Honolulu
1985
A Decade of Visual Art at Princeton: Faculty 1975–1985
Princeton University Museum of Art
Abstract Paintings as Surface and Object
Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Brookville
Art on Paper
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
1984
An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Currents #6
Milwaukee Art Museum
Small Works: New Abstract Paintings
Lafayette College and Muhlenberg College, Allentown
Hassam & Speicher Purchase Fund Exhibition
Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
1983
Contemporary Abstract Painting
Muhlenberg College Center for the Arts, Allentown
American Abstract Artists
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, travelled to:
Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
New Directions: Contemporary American Art from the Commodities Corporation Collection
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
New Work New York (Newcastle Salutes New York)
Newcastle Polytechnic Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
Student’s Choice Exhibition
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
1982
Pair Group: Current and Emerging Styles in Abstract Painting
Jersey City Museum
Critical Perspectives
P.S.1 The Institute for Art & Urban Resources, New York
Workshop F
Chelsea school of Art, London
Art for a New Year
Museum of Modern Art, New York
New Directions: Contemporary American Art from the Commodities Corporation Collection
Oklahoma Museum of Art, travelled to:
Santa Barbara Museum of Art;
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan;
Madison Art Center
1981
New Directions: Contemporary American Art from the Commodities Corporation Collection
NSU Art Museum, Ft. Lauderdale
Irish Art 1943–1973
Ulster Museum, Belfast
Catherine Porter Scully / Sean Scully: Arbeiten and Wandmalerei
Museum für (Sub-) Kultur, Berlin
Art for Collectors
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
1980
Irish Art 1943–1973
Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork
Marking Black
Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
New Directions
Princeton University Art Museum
The Newcastle Connection
Newcastle Polytechnic Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
The International Connection
Sense of Ireland Festival, Roundhouse Gallery, London
Growing Up with Art
Leicestershire Collection for Schools and Colleges, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
ROSC
University College Gallery and National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
1979
Fourteen Painters
Lehmann College Art Gallery, City University of New York
New Wave Painting
The Clocktower, New York
Certain Traditions: Recent British and Canadian Art
Art Gallery of Hamilton, travelled to:
London Regional Art Gallery;
Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. Johns;
Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno
First Exhibition
Toni Birkhead Gallery, Cincinnati
The British Art Show
Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, travelled to:
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne;
Hatton Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne;
The University Gallery, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne;
Arnolfini, Bristol;
Bristol and Royal West of England Academy
Tolly Cobbold Eastern Arts 2nd National Exhibition
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, travelled to:
Norwich Art Gallery;
Christchurch Mansion Ipswich;
Camden Art Center, London;
Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
1978
Certain Traditions: Recent British and Canadian Art
The Edmonton Art Gallery, travelled to:
Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Calgary;
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon;
Art Gallery of Windsor
Small Works
Newcastle Polytechnic Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
1977
British Painting 1952–1977
Royal Academy of Arts, London
Works on Paper – The Contemporary Art Society’s Gifts to Public Galleries 1952–1977
Diploma Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts, London, travelled to:
Rowan Gallery, London
1976
7 Artists from the Rowan Gallery
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, travelled to:Rowan Gallery, London
1975
The British Art Coming: Contemporary British Art
De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, travelled to:
Rowan Gallery, London
The Arts Club, London
1974
British Painting ’74
Hayward Art Gallery, London
Dixieme Biennale Internationale D’Art De Menton
Palais De L’Europe, Menton
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 9
Walter Art Gallery, Liverpool
1973
La Peinture Anglaise Aujourd’hui
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Critics Choice
Gulbenkian Gallery, People’s Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne
1972
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 8
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Northern Young Painters
Stirling University
1971
Art Spectrum North
Leeds City Art Gallery, travelled to:
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne;
Manchester City Art Gallery
Annual Students’ Summer Exhibition
Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne
1970
Annual Students’ Summer Exhibition
Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle
Northern Young Contemporaries
Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester
Young Contemporaries
Royal Academy of Arts, London, travelled with Arts Council of Great Britain
1969
Annual Students’ Summer Exhibition
Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Monographs
C. Lilley, et al., Sean Scully: Sculpture, Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2019
Others
S. Scully & K. Grovier, Endangered Sky, Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2023
P. H. Jensen, et al., Sean Scully: Material World, exh. cat., Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen; Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2022
M. Sporn & K. Claudia, Sean Scully: Song of Colors, exh. cat., Langen Foundation, Neuss; Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2022
O. Ward & A. P. Sun, eds., Sean Scully: The 12 / Dark Windows, exh. cat., London: Lisson Gallery, 2021
F. Fleming & O. Humphries, eds., Between the Lines: Critical Writings on Sean Scully. The Early Years, London: Art / Books, 2021
D. Carrier & S. Scully, Abstract Painting, Art History and Politics: Sean Scully and David Carrier in Conversation, Beröom: Hatje Cantz, 2021
T. Rub, et al., Sean Scully: The Shape of Ideas, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020
D. Carrier, et al., Sean Scully: Passenger – A Retrospective, exh. cat., Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts - Hungarian National Gallery, 2020
J. Wood; K. Grovier & A. Cragg, Insideoutside, exh. cat., Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal; Berlin: KEWENIG, 2020
A. Bernardini; K. Grovier & M. Spanevello, Sean Scully: Long Light, exh. cat., Villa e Collezione Panza, Varese; Arezzo: Magonza Editore, 2019
R. Fuchs, Sean Scully: Landlines and other recent works, exh. cat., Dublin: Kerlin Gallery, 2019
W. Spies; E. Dutz & K. Grovier, Sean Scully: Eleuthera, exh. cat., Albertina Museum, Vienna; Bielefeld: Kerber Verlag, 2019
A. Hochdörfer, et al., Museum Brandhorst: Die Sammlung / The Collection, Munich: Prestel, 2019
P. Müller-Tamm, et al., Sean Scully: Vita Duplex, exh. cat., Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe; Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2018
M. Price, Sean Scully: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings Volume II, 1980-1989, Berlin: Hatje Cantz / Modern Art Museum Fort Worth, 2018
F. Spalding, et al., Sean Scully: 1970, exh. cat., Laing Art Gallery / Hatton Gallery, Newcastle: Sean Scully / Newcastle University / Tyne & Wear Archives & Museum, 2018
K. Voigt; K. Grovier & F. Fleming, eds., Inner: Gesammelte Schriften und Ausgewählte Interviews von Sean Scully, exh. cat., Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe; Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2018
L. Le Gall, et al., Sean Scully: Ghost, Sean Scully, 2018
S. Scully & D. Eccher, Sean Scully: Land Sea, Milan: Skira, 2015
M. O’Sullivan & B. Reifenscheid, Sean Scully: Figure / Abstract, exh. cat., Ludwig Museum, Koblenz; Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2014
M. Auping, et al., Sean Scully: Wall of Light, New York: Rizzoli, 2005
A. Zweite, et al., Sean Scully. Paintings, Pastels, Watercolors, Photographs. 1990-2000, exh. cat., Haus der Kunst, Berlin; Dänischenhagen: Richter Verlag, 2001
N. Rifkin, Sean Scully: Twenty Years, 1976-1995, London: Thames & Hudson, 1999
V. Martini & J. Klüser, Sean Scully: Prints. Catalogue raisonné 1968-1999, Munich: Galerie Klüser, 1999
M. Semff, ed., Sean Scully: Works on Paper 1975 – 1996, exh. cat., Munich: Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, 1996
H. M. Herzog, ed., Sean Scully: The Catherine Paintings, exh. cat., Kunsthalle Bielefeld; Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 1995
C. Lampert & C. Ratcliff, Sean Scully: Paintings & Works on Paper 1982-88, exh. cat., London: Whitechapel Gallery, 1989
Videos
Publications
Sean Scully: Dark Yet
Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London | Marfa / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2024
With an essay by Sean Rainbird
€ 35.00
Sean Scully: Dark Yet
Exhibition Poster
2024
Out of stock
The Code Factory: Works from the Eighties and Nineties
Exhibition Poster
2024
€ 15.00
Selected Press
Art Viewer November 2023
The Times April 2023
The Brooklyn Rail September 2022
Hyperallergic July 2022
Art & Antiques March 2022
BBC Culture September 2021
Wallpaper* October 2020
The Guardian April 2019
Art Review May 2015
