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Sean Higgins
Born (1973): White Haven, PA / Lives and works: Los Angeles, CA
Education
1998
MFA: The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1996
BA: Fine Art, Magna Cum Laude, Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, PA
Selected Exhibitions
2011
The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Electronic Age
Curated by Sylvia Wolf
July 9, 2011 – September 25, 2011, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Marine Salon No. 8, April 23, 2011, Marine Salon, Santa Monica, CA
2010
ALPTRAUM!, Curated by Jay Stuckey, will travel to the following venues
Transformer Gallery in Washington, D.C., December 11 – January 15, 2011
Cell Project Space in London, January 28 – February 27, 2011
The Deutscher Künstlerbund in Berlin, March 11 – April 15, 2011
The Company in Los Angeles, May 1, 2011 – May 30, 2011
blank projects in Cape Town, August 2011
Marine Salon No. 7, November, 2010, Marine Salon, Santa Monica, CA
2009
Marine Salon No. 3, November, 2009, Marine Salon, Santa Monica, CA (M.B. Boissonnault, Joshua Callaghan, Cindy Cheng, Sean Higgins, Tom Hunter, Dana Louise Kirkpatrick, Peter Lograsso, Michael McConnell, Debra Scacco)
Difficulties with Interplanetary Travel, June 24 – July 31, 2009, Collette Blanchard gallery, New York, NY
Shut Up and Keep Swimming, curated by Claressinka Anderson, January 2009, Jail Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Apocrypha, September 2008, OKOK Gallery (now Ambach & Rice), Seattle, WA
2007
Show, June 16 – July 14, 2007, Jail Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Curated by Heather Cantrell.
Sean Higgins – Island of Relative Stability, sixspace, March 3 – April 7, 2007, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Milieu, Pulse (art fair)/IMPULSE section, sixspace, March 10-13, New York, NY
Back Room, Kinkead Contemporary (innaugural exhibition), September 2006, Los Angeles, CA
artLA, sixspace booth, January 26-29, Santa Monica, CA
2005
There Goes the Neighborhood, December 10-January 14, sixspace, Culver City, CA
Rogue Wave ’05, 19 Artists from Los Angeles, June 30 – September 3, LA Louver, Venice, CA (catalogue)
2004
Recent Works, VertexList, New York, NY
Viewfinder, Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003
filesharing.001, Art Front Studios, Los Angeles, CA
1999
Sean Higgins and Lorraine Walsh, Silicon Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1998
Pennart II, Kohn, Pederson, Fox Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Prints, Tyler Gallery, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Faculty Exhibition, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Artbytes, Art by Numbers, Walt Whitman Cultural Center, Camden, NJ
Antithesis, Á Priori Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1997
East Meets West: Visions in Between, Arthur Ross Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Education / Professional
2008
Guest lecturer, MFA program, California State University, Long Beach
1998-Present
Freelance Interactive Designer, CD-ROM, Internet, Multimedia, DVD
2001
California State University, Long Beach, CA, Professor, Interactive Design and Introduction to Computer Art
1998
Skidmore College, Summer Six, Saratoga Springs, NY, Professor, Computer for the Artist
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Assistantship, Computer Based Art
1995-1997
Skidmore College, Summer Six Art Program, Saratoga Springs, NY, Assistant Professor, Painting and Drawing, Figure Drawing
Bibliography
Marine, A Contemporary Art Salon, Works 001 – 185, Year One, 2010
Beil, Kim. “Blurred Visions: Three Photographers” art ltd. January, 2009. p52
Maine, Stephen. “Sean Higgins at sixspace” Art in America, October 2007, p221
Beil, Kim. “Sean Higgins at sixspace” Artweek, Volume 38, May 2007, p19
Coleman, Caryn, Sean Higgins Interview, suicidegirls.com, Mar 28, 2007
Pagel, David. “Summer sampler has a dark side” Los Angeles Times, 8 July, 2005, E26
“Rogue Wave ’05 / Rogue Wave ’01,” Exhibition catalogue, LA Louver, Venice, CA, 2005
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