Seán Shanahan

Biographie

 

1960

Born in Dublin

1978-1979

Heatherley School of Fine Art, Chelsea, London.
1979-1982

Croydon College of Art & Design, London.
1986-1988

Olivar Castillejo Foundation, Madrid.

 

Lives and works in Montevecchia, Milano, Italy

 

2008 BERGNER + JOB Galerie  

 

 

Exhibitions

 

2008

BERGNER+JOB Galerie, Mainz (solo)
2007

Kunst-Station, Sankt Peter Köln (solo)
2005

Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (solo)
2003

Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam (solo)
'Trilogia del colore', Galleria Rubin, Milan
"Seeing Red", Hunter college, New YorkTriangolino", Arts centre Riverbank, Newbridge.
Sleeper, Edinburgh (solo)
Gallerie S65, Aalst (solo)
"Colour Based Painting, Bergner + Job Galerie, Mainz.
"Colour Chart" Ormaeu Baths, Belfast.
2002

Villa Pomini, Castellanza (solo)
Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin (solo)
'Sight Specific', Kilkenny Arts Festival, Kilkenny.
'Sei,' Galleria Corraini, Mantova.
Gallerie S65, Cologne
"Astrazione Zero", Spazio O, Milan.
"No Object, No Subject,No Matter..., Irish Museum of Modern Art.
The Rowan Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
"Morandi e I Morandiani", Cascina Roma, San Donayo Milanese.
"Colour-A Life Of It's Own", Mucsarnok, Kunsthalle, Budapest.
Palazzo Piacentini, San Benedetto del Tronto.
2001

'Blue' Kerlin Gallery (solo)
2000

Fondazione Scarampi, San Giorgio Scarampi (solo)
'Shifting Ground', Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Galleria Grossetti, Milan.
"Antonio Scaccabarozzi, Stephanè Bordarier and Seán Shanahan" Le 19, Centre
Regional d'Art contemporian, Montbéliard.
"10 Drawings", Copyright Tutti, Verduno. (solo)
1999

Kerlin Gallery, Dublin. (solo)
Galerie Agnes b du Jour, Paris.
"...Die Farbe (Rot) hat mich", Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany
1998

Slewe Galerie, Amsterdam. (solo)
Peter Davis,Callum Innes and Seán Shanahan, Slewe Galerie,Amsterdam.
Pallazzo Comunale di Merate. (solo)
A collection in the Making, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin.
Baukunst, Cologne. (solo)
Galleria Grossetti, Milan. (solo)
L'abstraction & ses territoires, Le 19, Centre Regional d'Art contemporian, Montbéliard.
EV+A, Limerick City Art Gallery, Limerick
1997

Kerlin Gallery, Dublin. (solo)
Extra Moenia, (with Roberto Caracciolo), Todi. (solo)
Residue, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin.
Edition X, Cologne (solo)
1996

Galerie M Jordan b.Devarriuex, Paris. (solo)
Consistenza della pittura, Premio Micheti, Fonazione F.P. Michetti, Trancavilla al Mare.
Invitational, Praler Insel, Munich.
Mostra d'Adda, Castello di Corneliano Bertario.
L'Imaginaire Irlandais, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris.
150 years of Heatherleys School of Fine Art, The Mall Gallery, London.
L'inquieto geometrico, Studio Carlo Grossetti, Milan.
1995

Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam. (solo)
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin. (solo)
Orchard Gallery, Derry. (solo)
1994

Turchetto-Plurima, Udine. (solo)
Unveiled, Cornerhouse, Manchester.
1993

Kerlin Gallery, Dublin. (solo)
A Selection from the Contemporary Arts Society Collection.
1992

Studio Carlo Grossetti, Milan. (solo)
1991

Kerlin Gallery, Dublin. (solo)
Oggi - Today, Studio Carlo Grossetti, Milan.
1990

Studio Carlo Grossetti, Milan. (solo)
Geert Schriever, Amsterdam. (solo)
1989

Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam. (solo)
1987

Hillman Holland Fine Arts, Atlanta, USA. (solo)
Permiable del gesto, curated by Andre Garcia Cubo,
Schemata, Riverside Studios, London.
1986

Galerie T'Venster, Rotterdam. (solo)
Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam. (solo)
Zomertentoonstelling, Den Helder, Holland.
Kunst, RAI, Amsterdam.
Zones, Aorta, Amsterdam.
1985

Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam. (solo)
1984

Luigi Deambrogi, Milan. (solo)
Five Painters, Riverside Studios, London.
1983

Luigi Deambrogi, Milan. (solo)
1982

Early Works, Edinburgh Festival, Scotland.

 

 

Bibliographie

 

2005

Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, 3rd March
Cristin Leach, The Sunday Times, 27th February
Jacqui McIntosh, Irish Examiner, 9th March
2004

"Kunst der Moderne. Kunst der Gegenwart. ",Anne-Marie Bonnet, Deubner Verlag fur Kunst, Theorie & Praxis. May.
2003

'Colour Chart', Aidan Dunne, The Ticket - The Irish Times, 30th October
'Seán Shanahan - Dublin City, The Hugh Lane' by Caoimh Mac Giolla
"Malerei der Gegenwart", Anne-Marie Bonnet, Kunsthistorische Arbeitsblätter, Feb.
"Seeing Red", Michael Fehr, exhibition catalogue, Hunter College, New York, April.
Sean Shanahan , Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith, Artforum, Summer
"Trilogia di Colore", Angela Madesani, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Rubin, Milan
2002

'Seán Shanahan, Eclissi', catalogue Villa Pomini, Castellanza, text by Radu Luino
'Seán Shanahan, Vidar', catalogue Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin, texts by Mel Gooding, Jens Peter Koerver and Barbara Dawson
Marianne Hartigan, The Sunday Tribune, September 29
Medb Ruane, The Sunday Times, September 29
Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, September 27
Ambrose Clancy, The Washington Post, January 20
"The Rowan collection», exhibition catalogue, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Feb.
"Astrazione Zero", Angela Madesani, exhibition catalogue, Milan, Feb.
2001

Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, Thursday 8th November
"Apriamo la gabbia dell'Astrazione! Un panorama della giovani pittura astratta in Italia". Angela Madesani, Ipsofacto, Nov.
"Pigments of their imagination», Medb Ruane, Sunday Tribune, 11th Nov.
"A painters building blocks», Aidan Dunne, Irish Times, 10. Nov.
2000

"Of Painting today in general and its raison d'etre: Stephane, Bordarier, Antonio Scaccabarozzi and Seán Shanahan."
Mel Gooding, catalogue, "Materiau: Coloure", Montbeliard, Sept.
"Matériau: Couleur", Les Cahiers, Le 19, Montbeliard. Oct.
"La couleur comme preoccupation essentielle" Vu du Doubs, Sept.
Trois pour la couleur", Alain Roy, Montbeliard Le Pays, 22 Sept.
"...Die Farbe (Rot) hat mich", Michael Fehr,"Seán Shanahan: Farbe als Palimpsest ", Anne-Marie Bonnet, catalogue, Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, der Stadt Hagen, Nov.2000
"Conversazione con quattro quadri e loro autore, Seán Shanahan,"Eugenio Alberti Schatz, catalogue,"Marrano", Fondazione , Scarampi, Nov.
"Taglie di Colore, Seán Shanahan a Scarampi", Mauro Querci, Gulliver, Nov.
MacGiolla Leith, catalogue, Irish Museum of Modern Art.Nov.
1999

The Whoseday Book, Millennium Fundraising partner to The Irish Hospice foundation, Mar.
Minimalism and Volcanoes, Aiden Dunne,Irish Times,31.Mar.
Seán Shanahan, Marianne Hartigan,The Sunday Tribune,04.Apr.
Im Rausch der Sinne", Anne-Marie Bonnet, Kunst zwischen Animation und Askese", Hrsg. v.Konrad Paul Liessmann (=Philosophicum Lech, Bd. 2), Vienna, (Zolnay Verlag), p.200 -203
1998

Monochroom met bloedend vlak,Erik Hagort,de Volkskrant, 08.April
The breath of space and the pace of time, Anne-Marie Bonnet,Baukunst catalogue, April.
Anne Erfle talks to Seán Shanahan, Baukunst catalogue, April.
Wenn Künstler die Bildfläche öffnen,Heidrum Wirth, Köln Rundscau, 24.April.
Einfache Geometrie: Baukunst zeigt Shanahan, E.Roos,Kölner Stadt Anzeiger, 15.May.
Summer Group Show, Sunday Times, 02 Aug, Marian Lovett.
L'abstraction & ses territoires, Philippe Cyroulnik, September, p.102-103.
Seán Shanahan,Galleria Grossetti, catalogue, October.
Seán Shanahan, Comune di Merate, catalogue, November.
Shanahan, dieci finestre sul colore, Arte, Dec.
1997

Residue, catalogue, John Hutchinson, August.
Residue, review by Brian Fallon, Irish Times, August.
Confessions of a Gallery Curator, Aidan Dunne, Sunday Tribune, August.
Modern Art in Ireland, Dorothy Walker,Lilliput press, p.219
1996

From Nature, (Poetry) to (Multi) Culture, catalogue for l'Imaginaire Irlandais, Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith.
Une Saison Irlandaise, Paul Ardenne, Art Press, June.
16 Artistes Irlandais, L'Imaginaire Irlandais catalogue, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, April.
1995

Optical Consciousness, Rutger Pontzen, Metropolis M, no 4.
Optical Consciousness, catalogue, Willen Sanders, Stelling/Copyright Tutti, May.
Seán Shanahan, Marion Lovett, Circa, Summer edition.
Seán Shanahan at the Kerlin, Luke Clancy, Irish Times, April.
A suite in three movements for Seán Shanahan, catalogue, Mel Gooding, Orchard/Kerlin, April.
Werk van Shanahan ontstijgt rigiditiet, Robbert Roos, Trouw, February.
1994

Seán Shanahan, Sabrina Zannier, Flash Art, January.
1993

Seán Shanahan, Diego Collovini, Titolo, December
Festa Italiana, Aidan Dunne, Sunday Tribune, April.
Seán Shanahan at the Kerlin, Brian Fallon, Irish Times, April.
1992

Catalogue, Caoimhin MacGiolla Leith, Studio Carlo Grossetti,November.
From Nature (Poetry) to (Multi-) Culture catalogue, Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith.
1991

Seán Shanahan at the Kerlin, Brian Fallon, Irish Times, September.
1990

de cirkel en het vierkant, Eddy van der Meer, Alert, December.
1989

Seán Shanahan, Rob Smolders, NRC Handlesblad, September.
1987

Tussenblik, Mathilde Roskam, catalogue Het Kruithuis, S'Hertogenbosch.
Schemata, Lynne Cooke, Artscribe, May.
Schemata, Greg Hilty catalogue Riverside Studios, London, April.
Schemata, Stuart Morgan, Artforum, May.
Schemata, Stuart Morgan, catalogue Riverside Studios, London, April

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ausstellungseröffnung
28. September 2008
E. Bergner, Seán Shanahan, AK. Job

 

 

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All photograhies are from the exhibition of Seán Shanahan in the B+J Galerie in the year of 2008.