Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
Sean Duffy
Lives and works in Los Angeles
1992 MFA, University of California, Irvine
1988 BA Studio Art and Political Science, University of California, San Diego
2011
“Sean Duffy’s Garage Sale”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2010
Sean Duffy, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna CA
2009
“Can’t Stop It”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2008
"Hilites”, New Work Gallery, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
2007
"Group Show 3”, Howard House, Seattle, WA
"The Grove”, Luckman Gallery, California State University Los Angeles, CA; Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ; Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
"Group Show Part 2”, Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin, Germany
2006
"Group Show”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2005
"Casual Friday”, California 101, San Francisco, CA
2004
"Temporary Worker”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2003
"Bakersfield Smoker”, Project Space, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"Sorry Entertainer”, Howard House, Seattle, WA
"Greatest Hits, Volume II”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2001
"cream”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"mod2”, Howard House, Seattle, WA
2000
"Endless Sunday”, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Miramar Artist Project Space, Santa Barbara
"mod”, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
1999
"first wave”, Quotidian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998
"teach me to love”, Deep River, Los Angeles, CA
1995
"Living Plan B; Go Captain Baby Vol. 2”, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
1994
"The Real Captain Commander; Go Captain Baby Vol. 1”, Lemoyne Kennels, Los Angeles, CA
1992
"Lump-o-coal”, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Bookstore, Los Angeles, CA
"Enough Rope”, UCI Fine Arts Gallery, Irvine, CA
1991
"Wayne, Trent, Carla, Brenda”, UCI Fine Arts Gallery, Irvine
2010
“The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl”, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, curated by Trevor Schoonmaker, and travelling to:
ICA Boston, Boston, MA (April 15 - September 5, 2011);
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL (March 18 – June 10, 2012);
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA (July 14 – October 7, 2012)
ICA Boston, Boston, MA (April 15 - September 5, 2011);
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL (March 18 – June 10, 2012);
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA (July 14 – October 7, 2012)
"New Art for a New Century: Recent Acquisitions 2000-2009 ", Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
“ReCycle”, University of California Riverside Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, CA
“Resounding”, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
COLA, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park
2009
Because I say so..., Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida
GIMME; From Inspiration to Appropriation, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle
2008
"Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood”, World Class Boxing, the Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection, Miami, FL
"Noise”, SiteLA, Los Angeles, CA
"Like Lifelike: Painting in the Third Dimension”, Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California Riverside, CA
"Something from Nothing”, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA (organized by Dan Cameron)
2007
"Sculptors’ Drawings: Ideas, Studies, Sketches, Proposals, and More”, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Nowell Karten
"Soundwaves”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
"Time Machine”, curated by Brad Eberhard, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles
2006
"Greetings from the American Dream”, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
"Back Room”, Kinkead Gallery, Los Angeles
2005
"CUT”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
"Lost in Music”, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS, curated by Bruce Hartmann
2004
"The Realm of the Senses”, James Cohan Gallery, New York, with Vito Acconci, Douglas Gordon,
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Mike Kelly, Christian Marclay, Fred Tomaselli, Bill Viola
"California Biennial”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
"kurzdavordanach”, Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany, curated by Wilhelm Schuermann
"New”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
2003
"Black Belt”, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, curated by Christine Kim, traveling to Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica
"Hot Summer in the City”, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
"Remix/Experimenter”, CENAR Centro Nacional del Arte, San Salvador, El Salvador
2002
"21 Paintings from LA”, Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, Cal State San Bernadino, CA, curated by James Gobel
2001
"Painting Beyond Painting”, Christinerose Gallery, New York
2000
"Pleasure Seekers”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver
1999
"Game Show”, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington
"What On Earth”, Nevada Institute for Contemporary Arts, Las Vegas
"Happy Trails”, College of Creative Studies, UC Santa Barbara, CA
1998
"Tweeners”, Spanish Kitchen, Los Angeles
1996
"Make a Move”, Lemoyne Kennels, Los Angeles
1995
"Neotoma”, Otis Gallery, Los Angeles
1994
"Second Anniversary Fashion Show”, Food House, Santa Monica, CA
1993
"Germinal Notations”, Food House, Santa Monica, CA
1992
"Hands”, Venice Art Walk
"Visual Exchange”, Otis Parsons, Los Angeles
1991
"Cheese Toast”, UCI Fine Arts Gallery, Irvine
"Visual Exchange”, UCI Fine Arts Gallery, Irvine
1990
"Ho Down at High Noon”, UCI Fine Arts Gallery, Irvine
1989
"Art Facory II”, UCSD Annex Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1988
"Art Facory”, UCSD Annex Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2011
Oakes, Bob, “A Surprising Harmony: Art Meets Vinyl At The ICA”, NPR, April 15
Edgers, Geoff, “Groove is in the art”, Boston Globe, April 15
Donaldson, Jonathan, “ICA’s Record gets into the groove”, Boston Herald, April 15
2010
Schad, Ed, “Sean Duffy, Can’t Stop It”, Art Review, March
Maine, Stephen, “Sean Duffy at Susanne Vielmetter”, Art In America, February 23
“New Art for a New Century: Contemporary Acquisitions, 2000-2010”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
2008
Cronk, Desiree, "Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood”, (Interview with Sean Duffy), World Class Boxing Pamphlet, September/October
Brad Spence, “Like Lifelike”, UCR Sweeny Art Gallery Catalogue
Peter Boswell, “Sean Duffy - Hilites”, Miami Art Museum Booklet
2007
Schleussner, Laura, "Vinyl is Back”, XYMARA, September
Andrews, Scott, "Sean Duffy: The Grove Asu Art Museum”, Java Magazine, July/August
Hackett, Regina, "The Valuable and Obscure on top”, Seattlepi.com, July 22
Gutel, Rene, "Step into the Grove”, KJZZ 91.5 NPR Phoenix, July 20
Tassoni, Kristy, "what”s that noise?” 944 Phoenix, July
Hwang, Kelly, " Artists hopes exhibit hits right notes with viewers”, The Tempe Republic, June 29
Jansen, Steve, "Groovin’ Grove”, Phoenix New Times, July 19-25
Lengel, Kerry, "Turntables, sound entice interaction” Arizona Republic, June 10
Miles, Christopher, "Sean Duffy: The Grove”, Flaunt, June
"Gallery Weekend Berlin (Part 4)”, vernissageTV, May 7
Freeman, Tommy, "Sean Duffy at the Luckman Gallery”, Artweek, April
Zellen, Jody, "Sean Duffy: Luckman Gallery”, artillery, March
Brooks, Amra, "Fair Report: Art LA”, artinfo, February 10
Ting Lipton, Shana, "One good turntable deserves another”, Los Angeles Times, February 1
Labong, Leilani, "The Best in Art, Auctions and Gallery Openings”, California Home + Design, January
2006
Frank, Peter, "Sean Duffy”, ARTnews, October
Balaschak, Chris, "Back: Sean Duffy”, frieze, September
Gray, Emma, "L.A. Confidential”, artnet, May
Knight, Christopher, "One artist enough for this ‘group’”, Los Angeles Times, April 21, p. E22-23
2005
Duncan, Michael, "Sean Duffy at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects”, Art in America, September
Choksi, Neha, "An Ode to the Universal Worker”, X-tra, Summer Issue, Volume 7, Number 4
Wyland, Jessica, "Get in Gear for ‘Drive Time’ exhibit”, Daily Bulletin, August 16
Muckenfuss, Mark, "The Art of Traffic”, Press Enterprise, August 15
"Project Space”, NYFA, May 10
Harvey, Doug, "Lost in Music”, Exhibition Essay, Johnson County Community College Gallery of Art, February
Newhouse, Kristina, "Experiencing the California Biennial”, X-tra, Volume 7, Number 3, Spring
Tumlir, Jan, "California Biennial”, Artforum, February, p. 168
Schuermann, Wilhelm, "Kurzdavordanach” (catalogue), p. 95
2004
Knight, Christopher, "Biennial arrives, and so does a museum”, Los Angeles Times, October 13
Bollen, Christopher, "Sculpture Culture—Sean Duffy”, VMAN Magazine, Issue 03, Fall/Winter, p. 62
Muchnic, Suzanne, "No more coasting for OCMA”, Los Angeles Times, October 24
Di Blasi, Johanna, "Dem Bild unter den Rock geschaut”, Koelner Stadtanzeiger, October 23
Chang, Richard, "The art of the new”, Orange County Register, October 10
Armstrong, Elizabeth and Simon, Jane, "Sean Duffy”, 2004 California Biennial (catalogue), p. 40-43
Worman, Alex, "L.A. Confidential”, artnet, January 24
2003
Secret, Mosi, "Africana Reviews Black Belt”, Africana, November 21
Kim, Christine Y, "Black Belt”, The Studio Museum in Harlem (catalogue)
Stasiek, Tony, "Wall to Wall”, The Bellingham Harold, October 2
Hall, Emily, "Do This”, The Stranger, August 21
Gleason, Matt, "Sean Duffy: Greatest Hits Volume II”, Modern Painters, Summer, p. 126
Gopnik, Blake, "Standouts in a Crowd: A Select Sampling of the NY Armory Show”, The Washington Post, March 13
ArtScene, preview, March
Martinez, Lilian, "Scratch Visual”, El Dario de Hoy, February 6
2002
Schlueter, Christian, "Irrlaeufer im Kunstparcours”, Frankfurter Rundschau, September 27
Rump, Gerhard Charles, "Kunst ab Fuenf Euro: Art Forum Berlin”, Die Welt, September 26
"Gucken and Kaufen”, Berliner Morgenpost, September 26
Gobel, James and Miles, Christopher, "21 Paintings from LA”, Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum (catalogue)
"Sonic Perspectives”, Bijutsu Techo Magazine, Volume 54, Number 821, June, p. 103
Lunenfeld, Peter, "Anthropomorphometrics”, Artext, Spring
LaBelle, Charles, "Sean Duffy”, Bijutsu Techo Magazine, Volume 54, Number 814, January
2001
Harvey, Doug, "Synthetics”, LA Weekly, November 16
Mastbaum, Blair, "Trends come, go and come again”, digitalcity.com, November 13
Knight, Christopher, "Art History and Pop Culture: Just a Couple of His Targets”, Los Angeles Times, November 2
Kurtz, Katie, "It’s a ‘mod’ world of art and furniture”, Seattle Times, March 23
DeVuono, Frances, "Sean Duffy at Howard House”, Artweek, Volume 32, Issue 5, May
2000
Ise, Claudine and Lombino, Mary-Kay, "Bestiary”, Armory Center for the Arts (catalogue)
Frank, Peter, "Art Picks of the Week”, LA Weekly, August 11
Duncan, Michael, "L.A. Confidential”, Artnet.com, July 13
1999
Hall, Emily, "The Art of Play”, The Stranger, December 12
Knight, Christopher, "Imaginative ‘Daydreaming’ Alters Familiar Narratives”, Los Angeles Times, August 20
Harvey, Doug, "Non-Museum Top 10—1998 Year in Review”, LA Weekly, January 8
1998
Harvey, Doug, "Sean Duffy at Deep River”, Art Issues, Summer
Moore, Boothe, "Culture Watch”, Los Angeles Times, February 15
1996
Hansson, Bobby, "The Fine Art of the Tin Can”, Lark Books, p. 56
1993
Figuls, Carl, "Pumpkinheads”, Los Angeles Times, October 28
The Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, TX
The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
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