Sean Landers

Sean Landers (born 1962) is an American artist. He is best known for using his personal experience as public subject matter and for utilizing diverse styles and media in a performative manner. Through the use of painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, writing, video and audio, regardless of the medium he chooses, he reveals the process of artistic creation through humor and confession, gravity and pathos. He blurs the lines between fact and fiction, reality and fantasy, sincerity and insincerity, while presenting a portrait of the artist’s consciousness. The twin strategies of personal material and formal multiplicity allow him to infiltrate his viewers’ consciousness with raw truths about contemporary society, and the art world in particular, frankly and fearlessly. A collateral effect is the viewers’ identification with the artist, which allows for a deeper understanding of themselves and their humanity.

The journey from the early autobiographical work of the 1990’s—yellow legal pad drawings of writing featuring the fictional artist Chris Hamson—to the reclaiming of the persona by Landers's own voice is the focus of a monograph published by JRP|Ringier, and released in the Fall of 2011 to accompany a solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.

He lives and works in New York City and is represented by Friedrich Petzel Gallery in New York, International Art Objects in Los Angeles, greengrassi in London, Taka Ishii Gallery in Tokyo and Galerie Rodolphe Janssen in Brussels.

Landers’s work is represented in numerous major museum and public collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Denver Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Tate Modern in London, Sammlung Hoffmann in Berlin, Sammlung Goetz in Munich, and Fundación/La Colección Jumex in Mexico, among others.

Landers was born in Springfield, and raised in Palmer Massachusetts in 1962. He learned to paint from his mother, Diana George Landers, and grandmother, Muriel Brown George, who studied under the American painter Jonas Joseph LaValley. Landers received a BFA in sculpture from the Philadelphia College of Art in 1984 and an MFA in sculpture from Yale University School of Art in 1986.

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