Lives and works in Los Angeles

Education

1992        MFA, University of California, Irvine

1988        BA Studio Art and Political Science, University of California, San Diego

Solo Exhibitions

2008        Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL

2007                “Group Show 3”, Howard House, Seattle, WA

               “The Grove”, Luckman Gallery, California State University Los Angeles, CA; Arizona State University

                     Art Museum, Tempe, AZ; Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA

               “Group Show Part 2”, Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin, Germany

2006        “Group Show”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2005        “Casual Friday”, California 101, San Francisco, CA

2004        “Temporary Worker”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2003        “Bakersfield Smoker”, Project Space, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA

               “Sorry Entertainer”, Howard House, Seattle, WA

               “Greatest Hits, Volume II”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2001        “cream”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA

               “mod²”, Howard House, Seattle, WA

2000        “Endless Sunday”, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Miramar Artist Project Space, Santa Barbara

               “mod”, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA

1999        “first wave”, Quotidian Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1998        “teach me to love”, Deep River, Los Angeles, CA

1995        “Living Plan B; Go Captain Baby Vol. 2”, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA

1994        “The Real Captain Commander; Go Captain Baby Vol. 1”, Lemoyne Kennels, Los Angeles, CA

1992        “Lump-o-coal”, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Bookstore, Los Angeles, CA

               “Enough Rope”, UCI Fine Arts Gallery, Irvine, CA

1991        “Wayne, Trent, Carla, Brenda”, UCI Fine Arts Gallery, Irvine

Selected Group Shows

2008          “Like Lifelike: Painting in the Third Dimension”, Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California Riverside, CA

                        (upcoming – October 25 - January 03)

               “Something from Nothing”, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA (organized by Dan Cameron) 

2007        “Sculptors’ Drawings: Ideas, Studies, Sketches, Proposals, and More”, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA,

                     curated by Nowell Karten

               “Soundwaves”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA

               “Time Machine”, curated by Brad Eberhard, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles

2006        “Greetings from the American Dream”, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA

               “Back Room”, Kinkead Gallery, Los Angeles

2005        “CUT”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

               “Lost in Music”, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS, curated by Bruce Hartmann

2004        “The Realm of the Senses”, James Cohan Gallery, New York, with Vito Acconci, Douglas Gordon,

                           Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Mike Kelly, Christian Marclay, Fred Tomaselli, Bill Viola

               “California Biennial”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

               “kurzdavordanach”, Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany,

                           curated by Wilhelm Schuermann

               “New”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

2003                “Black Belt”, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, curated by Christine Kim, traveling to

               Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica

               “Hot Summer in the City”, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York

               “Remix/Experimenter”, CENAR Centro Nacional del Arte, San Salvador, El Salvador

2002        “21 Paintings from LA”, Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, Cal State San Bernadino, CA, curated by

                           James Gobel

2001        “Painting Beyond Painting”, Christinerose Gallery, New York

2000        “Pleasure Seekers”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver

1999        “Game Show”, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington

               “What On Earth”, Nevada Institute for Contemporary Arts, Las Vegas

               “Happy Trails”, College of Creative Studies, UC Santa Barbara, CA

1998        “Tweeners”, Spanish Kitchen, Los Angeles

1996        “Make a Move”, Lemoyne Kennels, Los Angeles

1995        “Neotoma”, Otis Gallery, Los Angeles

1994        “Second Anniversary Fashion Show”, Food House, Santa Monica, CA

1993        “Germinal Notations”, Food House, Santa Monica, CA

1992        “Hands”, Venice Art Walk

               “Visual Exchange”, Otis Parsons, Los Angeles

1991                “Cheese Toast”, UCI Fine Arts Gallery, Irvine

“Visual Exchange”, UCI Fine Arts Gallery, Irvine

1990                “Ho Down at High Noon”, UCI Fine Arts Gallery, Irvine

1989                “Art Facory II”, UCSD Annex Gallery, La Jolla, CA

1988        “Art Facory”, UCSD Annex Gallery, La Jolla, CA

Reviews

2007        Schleussner, Laura, “Vinyl is Back”, XYMARA, September

               Andrews, Scott, “Sean Duffy: The Grove Asu Art Museum”, Java Magazine, July/August

               Hackett, Regina, “The Valuable and Obscure on top”, Seattlepi.com, July 22

               Gutel, Rene, “Step into the Grove”, KJZZ 91.5 NPR Phoenix, July 20

               Tassoni, Kristy, “what”s that noise?” 944 Phoenix, July

               Hwang, Kelly, “ Artists hopes exhibit hits right notes with viewers”, The Tempe Republic, June 29

               Jansen, Steve, “Groovin’ Grove”, Phoenix New Times, July 19-25

               Lengel, Kerry, “Turntables, sound entice interaction” Arizona Republic, June 10

               Miles, Christopher, “Sean Duffy: The Grove”, Flaunt, June

               “Gallery Weekend Berlin (Part 4)”, vernissageTV, May 7

               Freeman, Tommy, “Sean Duffy at the Luckman Gallery”, Artweek, April

               Zeller, Jody, “Sean Duffy: Luckman Gallery”, artillery, March

               Brooks, Amra, “Fair Report: Art LA”, artinfo, February 10

               Ting Lipton, Shana, “One good turntable deserves another”, Los Angeles Times, February 1

               Labong, Leilani, “The Best in Art, Auctions and Gallery Openings”, California Home + Design, January

2006        Frank, Peter, “Sean Duffy”, ARTnews, October

               Balaschak, Chris, “Back: Sean Duffy”, frieze, September

               Gray, Emma, “L.A. Confidential”, artnet, May

               Knight, Christopher, “One artist enough for this ‘group’”, Los Angeles Times, April 21, p. E22-23

2005        Snodgrass, Susan, “Sean Duffy at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects”, Art in America, September

               Choksi, Neha, “An Ode to the Universal Worker”, X-tra, Summer Issue, Volume 7, Number 4

               Wyland, Jessica, “Get in Gear for ‘Drive Time’ exhibit”, Daily Bulletin, August 16

               Muckenfuss, Mark, “The Art of Traffic”, Press Enterprise, August 15

               “Project Space”, NYFA, May 10

               Harvey, Doug, “Lost in Music”, Exhibition Essay, Johnson County Community College Gallery of Art, February

               Newhouse, Kristina, “Experiencing the California Biennial”, X-tra, Volume 7, Number 3, Spring

               Tumlir, Jan, “California Biennial”, Artforum, February, p. 168

               Schuermann, Wilhelm, “Kurzdavordanach” (catalogue), p. 95

2004        Knight, Christopher, “Biennial arrives, and so does a museum”, Los Angeles Times, October 13

               Bollen, Christopher, “Sculpture Culture—Sean Duffy”, VMAN Magazine, Issue 03, Fall/Winter, p. 62

               Muchnic, Suzanne, “No more coasting for OCMA”, Los Angeles Times, October 24

               Di Blasi, Johanna, “Dem Bild unter den Rock geschaut”, Koelner Stadtanzeiger, October 23

               Chang, Richard, “The art of the new”, Orange County Register, October 10

               Armstrong, Elizabeth and Simon, Jane, “Sean Duffy”, 2004 California Biennial (catalogue), p. 40-43

               Worman, Alex, “L.A. Confidential”, artnet, January 24

2003        Secret, Mosi, “Africana Reviews Black Belt”, Africana, November 21

               Kim, Christine Y, “Black Belt”, The Studio Museum in Harlem (catalogue)

               Stasiek, Tony, “Wall to Wall”, The Bellingham Harold, October 2

               Hall, Emily, “Do This”, The Stranger, August 21

               Gleason, Matt, “Sean Duffy: Greatest Hits Volume II”, Modern Painters, Summer, p. 126

               Gopnik, Blake, “Standouts in a Crowd: A Select Sampling of the NY Armory Show”, The Washington Post,

                           March 13

               ArtScene, preview, March

               Martinez, Lilian, “Scratch Visual”, El Dario de Hoy, February 6

2002        Schlueter, Christian, “Irrlaeufer im Kunstparcours”, Frankfurter Rundschau, September 27

               Rump, Gerhard Charles, “Kunst ab Fuenf Euro: Art Forum Berlin”, Die Welt, September 26

               “Gucken and Kaufen”, Berliner Morgenpost, September 26

Gobel, James and Miles, Christopher, “21 Paintings from LA”, Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum (catalogue)

               “Sonic Perspectives”, Bijutsu Techo Magazine, Volume 54, Number 821, June, p. 103

               Lunenfeld, Peter, “Anthropomorphometrics”, Artext, Spring

               LaBelle, Charles, “Sean Duffy”, Bijutsu Techo Magazine, Volume 54, Number 814, January

2001        Harvey, Doug, “Synthetics”, LA Weekly, November 16

               Mastbaum, Blair, “Trends come, go and come again”, digitalcity.com, November 13

               Knight, Christopher, “Art History and Pop Culture: Just a Couple of His Targets”, Los Angeles Times,

                           November 2

               Kurtz, Katie, “It’s a ‘mod’ world of art and furniture”, Seattle Times, March 23

               DeVuono, Frances, “Sean Duffy at Howard House”, Artweek, Volume 32, Issue 5, May

2000        Ise, Claudine and Lombino, Mary-Kay, “Bestiary”, Armory Center for the Arts (catalogue)

               Frank, Peter, “Art Picks of the Week”, LA Weekly, August 11

               Duncan, Michael, “L.A. Confidential”, Artnet.com, July 13

1999        Hall, Emily, “The Art of Play”, The Stranger, December 12

               Knight, Christopher, “Imaginative ‘Daydreaming’ Alters Familiar Narratives”, Los Angeles Times, August 20

               Harvey, Doug, “Non-Museum Top 10—1998 Year in Review”, LA Weekly, January 8

1998        Harvey, Doug, “Sean Duffy at Deep River”, Art Issues, Summer

               Moore, Boothe, “Culture Watch”, Los Angeles Times, February 15

1996        Hansson, Bobby, “The Fine Art of the Tin Can”, Lark Books, p. 56

1993        Figuls, Carl, “Pumpkinheads”, Los Angeles Times, October 28

Public Collections

               The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

               The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, TX

               The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA