Sean Scully
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| Born |
June 30, 1945 Dublin, Ireland |
| Nationality | American |
| Education |
St Joan of Arc, Roman Catholic Primary School Highbury Park, 1950-1952 |
| Known for | Painting and Printmaking |
St Joan of Arc, Roman Catholic Primary School Highbury Park, 1950-1952
Gillespie Primary School Islington, 1952-1953
Haseltine Primary School Lower Sydenham, 1953-1956
Forest Hill Comprehensive School Dacres Road, 1956-1961
Croydon College of Art 1965-1968
Newcastle University, 1968-1972
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University
Sean Scully RA (born 30 June 1945) is an Irish-born American-based painter and printmaker who has twice been named a Turner Prize nominee. His work is collected in major museums worldwide.
Scully was born in Dublin and raised in South London. He studied at Croydon College of Art and Newcastle University. He was a recipient of a graduate fellowship at Harvard in the early 1970s and subsequently settled in New York. Scully was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1989 and 1993. He has exhibited widely in Europe and the United States, and is represented in the permanent collections of a number of museums and public galleries, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., The Art Institute of Chicago, the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, the National Gallery of Australia, the Tate Gallery, London, the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, and many other private and public collections worldwide. In 2006 Scully donated eight of his paintings to the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin, which opened an extension that year with a room dedicated to Scully's works.
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