Sean Healy Explained

Sean Healy should not be confused with Sean Healey.

Sean Healy
Birth Place:New York
Occupation:Multimedia Artist

Sean P. Healy is a multimedia artist based in Portland, Oregon.[1]

Healy's work often explores the rationales of social power structures utilizing everything from chewing gum to resin, cigarette butts and large sliding glass doors.[2]

He is the youngest artist to have been awarded a General Services Administration Public Art Commission, and in 2006 completed a project for Thom Mayne’s federal courthouse[3] in Eugene, Oregon. His project for the FBI Headquarters in Houston, Texas was completed in 2008 and coincided with a solo show at the Betty Moody Gallery. Other noteworthy group shows were; Oregon Biennial (1999), Fresh Trouble (2005) and THE HOOK UP (2007)[4]

Healy received his BFA in printmaking from Alfred University. He has had numerous one-person exhibitions both at the Elizabeth Leach Gallery and at spaces such as The Art Gym.

Notes and References

  1. Speer, Richard. http://www.wweek.com/editorial/3131/6386/ Willamette Week
  2. Bovee, Katherine http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2006/09/sean_healy_supe.html PORT
  3. Jahn, Jeff. Federal Courthouse PORT
  4. http://www.wweek.com/editorial/3331/9080/ Willamette Week | “First Thursday in review: Art-chitecture?” | June 13th, 2007