Sean Landers

Sean Landers works primarily as a painter, but he has also made sculptures, photographs, videos and audio works. René Magritte’s Période vache, a series of paintings in which the surrealist artist made a caricature of his own style, had a big influence on Landers’ artistic practice and it made him question his relationship as an artist to his work. Landers’ work explores the question of what it is to be a contemporary artist and what it means to make something that will last beyond the lifetime of the artist. In this sense his career can be seen as a long-lasting exploration of the same question, thereby turning his oeuvre into one dynamic whole.
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His work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions, including at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France; Consortium, Dijon, France; the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; and the Kunsthalle Zurich; and numerous group exhibitions including Mirror Mirror, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, The Netherlands; The Everywhere Studio, curated by Alex Gartenfeld and Stephanie Seidel, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, CA USA; Magritte, Broodthaers & Contemporary art, The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium; Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY USA; Picasso in Contemporary Art, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany; Aquatopia: The Imaginary of the Ocean Deep, Tate St. Ives, UK; NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum, NY USA; Drawing Time, Reading Time, the Drawing Center, New York, NY USA; Busted, the High Line, New York, NY USA; Midnight Party, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN USA, among others.

His work is included in collections such as the Sammlung Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY USA; Denver Art Museum, CO USA; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IO USA; OHFundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA USA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA USA; Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC USA; Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany; Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin, Germany; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA USA; Tate Modern, London, UK; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN USA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY USA.