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.
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Works
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Sean LandersWhy I Live, 2024Oil on linenSigned and dated recto and verso96.5 x 81.3 cm
38 x 32 inches -
Sean LandersSummer Squall, 2022Oil on linenSigned and dated verso112.2 x 152.4 cm
44.2 x 60 inches -
Sean LandersInstallation view, Sean Landers, "Adrift", Petzel, New York, 2023
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Sean LandersYellow Dog at Dawn, 2023Oil on linenSigned and dated verso132.1 x 177.8 cm
52 x 70 inches -
Sean LandersI Live, 2023Oil on linen86.4 x 71.1 cm
34 x 28 inches -
Sean LandersNotes to Self, 2023Oil on linenSigned and dated recto and verso116.8 x 152.4 cm
46 x 60 inches -
Sean LandersWhat Do Paintings Say?, 2017Oil on linenSigned and dated verso182.9 x 156.2 cm
72 x 61.5 inches -
Sean LandersMaroon Bells (Deer), 2015Oil on linenSigned and dated verso, on back, upper right corner208.3 x 157.5 cm
82 x 62 inches
Installation view "Sean Landers Animal Kingdom", Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, 2023/2024 -
Sean LandersDall Kid (Coconino Plateau, AZ), 2015Oil on linen88.9 x 114.3 cm
35 x 45 inches -
Sean LandersProng Horn, 2015Oil on linenInstallation view "Sean Landers Animal Kingdom", Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, 2023/2024165.1 x 127 cm
65 x 50 inches -
Sean LandersLion in Winter, 2019Oil on linenSigned and dated verso177.8 x 132.1 cm
70 x 52 inches
Installation view "Sean Landers Animal Kingdom", Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, 2023/2024 -
Sean LandersLion 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 inches -
Sean LandersBuffalo Minotaur, 2016Oil on linenSigned and dated on verso127 x 109.2 cm
50 x 43 inches -
Sean LandersAround the World Alone (Boy Skipper - Dawn), 2011Oil on linenSigned and dated verso132.1 x 172.7 cm
52 x 68 inches -
Sean LandersCaptain Homer (Seven Pipes for Seven Seas), 2016Oil on linenSigned and dated on verso48 x 41 inches
121.9 x 104.1 cm -
Sean LandersLonghi Girl, 2016Oil on linenSigned and dated on verso127 x 109.2 cm
50 x 43 inches -
Sean LandersThe Only Marks, 2019Oil on linenSigned and dated verso195.6 x 149.9 cm
77 x 59 inches -
Sean LandersI Am A Painting, 2011Oil on linen114,3 x 137,2 cm
45 x 54 inches -
Sean LandersFlicker Dimming Protocols, 2017Oil and archival inkjet on canvasSigned and dated on versocm
181.6 x 141 cm
71.5 x 55.51 inches -
Sean LandersDancing with Death, 1995Single channel video05:46 min.Edition 4/10, 2 AP
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Exhibitions
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