Sean Healy

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

Not to be confused with Sean Healey.
Sean Healy
Born
New York
OccupationMultimedia Artist

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
  1. Speer, Richard. Willamette Week
  2. Bovee, Katherine PORT
  3. Jahn, Jeff. Federal Courthouse PORT
  4. Willamette Week | “First Thursday in review: Art-chitecture?” | June 13th, 2007
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