Sean Landers
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Biography
Born 1962 in Palmer, MA
Lives and works in New York
Sean Landers is a painter and multimedia artist whose work spans a wide breadth of subjects, most coming from his own personal experience. His stream of consciousness textual outpourings together with recurring figurative motifs touch on existential themes and truths about contemporary society and humanity. Across all mediums, his oeuvre provides a visualization of thoughts — executed in a humorous and confessional way, Landers’ work blurs the lines between reality and fantasy, and between fact and fiction.
Landers‘ work has been shown extensively for over three decades, with solo and group exhibitions at Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris; Le Consortium, Dijon; Kunsthalle Zürich; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Musée Magritte, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; New Museum, New York; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Serpentine Gallery, London and MoMA PS1, New York.
His work is held in public collections worldwide, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Tate Modern, London; Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris; Des Moines Art Center; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; Sammlung Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, among others.
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When I first tried painting the ocean in the early 1990s [...] it was quite difficult to do even though I was at the beach in Amagansett, NY, looking at the ocean every day. So I turned to the American painter Winslow Homer to learn from. This dog and ocean series was based on him.
-Sean Landers
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Works
Sean Landers
Lion in Winter 3, 2020Gouache and ink on paperSigned and dated rectoPaper dimensions:
38 x 28.5 cm / 14.96 x 11.22 inches
Framed dimensions:
43 x 33.6 cm / 16.9 x 13.2 inchesB-SLANDERS-.21-0003Sean Landers’ work spans a wide breadth of subjects. Across all mediums, his oeuvre provides a visualization of thoughts – executed in a humorous and confessional way, often focusing on...Sean Landers’ work spans a wide breadth of subjects. Across all mediums, his oeuvre provides a visualization of thoughts – executed in a humorous and confessional way, often focusing on solitary protagonists, various animals, as the subject matter of his work, Landers blurs the lines between reality and fantasy, between fact and fiction. His early work originated in his writing, which he then turned into drawings and paintings where the text became the image. This confessional, autobiographical thread runs throughout his practice, as he experiments with a variety of subjects and themes. Landers’ references are often art historical.ExhibitionsExternal ExhibitionsNewsPressPublicationsVideo