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Sean Higgins
Born (1973): White Haven, PA / Lives: 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

2009
Marine Salon No. 3, November, 2009, Marine Salon, Santa Monica, CA
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
Review of Difficulties with Interplanetary Travel. Goings On About Town. The New Yorker. 3 August, 2009.

Spaziani, Rose. “Review of Difficulties with Interplanetary Travel”. The Copenhagen Voice. 26 June 2009.

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