SEAN SCULLY

1945

Born in Dublin, Ireland


1962–1965

Central School of Art, London


1965–1968

Croydon College of Art, London


1968–1972

Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne


Lives and works between New York, USA; Bavaria, Germany; Aix-en-Provence, France; and London, UK

Abbott Hall Art Gallery, Kendal

Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo

Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection, Little Rock

ARS AEVI Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Art Gallery of Ontario

Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Art Institute of Chicago

Artisan Museum, Tokyo

Arts and Humanities Research Council, Bristol

Arts Council of Great Britain, London

AXA Belgique, Brussels

Banque Européenne d’Investissement, Luxembourg

BAWAG Foundation, Vienna

Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

Birmingham Museum of Art

British Council, London

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge

Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradform Museums & Gardens, West Yorkshire

Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing

Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image Imprimee, La Louviere

Centre National des Artes Plastiques, Paris

Centre Pompidou, Paris

Chatsworth House, Derbyshire

Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Chemical Bank, New York

Cincinnati Art Museum

Cleveland Museum of Art

Colección Conei, Barcelona

Consejería de Cultura, Santander

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Council of National Academic Awards, Arts & Humanities Research Council Art Collection, Bristol

Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork

Dallas Museum of Art

David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence

Denver Art Museum

De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg

Detroit Institute of Arts

Des Moines Art Center

Deutsche Bank, London

Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane,

DZ Bank AG Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt

Eastern Arts Association, Cambridge

Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, de Young Museum

First Bank of Minneapolis

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge

Foundation Stiftelsen Focus, Boras

Fundación “la Caixa”, Barcelona

Fundación Allorda-Derksen, Barcelona

Fundación Bancaja, Valencia

Fundación Caixa Galicia, La Coruña

Fundación Grupo Urvasco (Homage to Chillida Collection), Vitoria-Gasteiz

Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Fondazione, Torino Musei

Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea

Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Hilti Art Foundation, Schaan

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover

Hôtel des Arts, Toulon

Hunterian Art Galery, Glasgow

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Centre Julio González, Valencia

Jean-Michel Cazes, Château Cordeillan-Bages, Pauillac

JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, New York

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City

Kunst- und Museumsverein Wuppertal

Kunsthalle Bielefeld

Kunsthaus Zürich

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

La Colombe d’Or, St. Paul de Vence

La Fondation Edelman, Lausanne

Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne

Langen Foundation, Neuss

Lászlo Vass Collection, Veszprém

Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul

Leicestershire Educational Authority

Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk

LWL - Museum for Art and Culture, Münster

Malaysian Exchange of Securities Dealing and Automated Quotation Collection, New York

Manchester City Art Gallery

Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation for the Arts, Bloomfield Hills

Mellon Bank, Pittsburgh

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley

Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow

Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine

Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole

Musée de Roland Garros, Paris

Musée du Dessin et de l’Estampe Originale, Gravelines

Musée Jenisch, Vevey

Museo Chillida-Leku, Hernani

Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas

Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey

Museo de Arte Moderna di Bologna

Museo de Arte Moderno, Col. Bosques de Chapultepec

Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona

Museu de Montserrat, Abadia de Montserrat, Barcelona

Museum Folkwang, Essen

Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna

Museum Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Museum of Fine Arts Houston

Museums Sheffield

Nagoya City Art Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

National Museum Cardiff

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

Neue Pinakothek, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich

New Orleans Museum of Art, Besthoff Sculpture Garden

Northern Arts Association, Newcastle upon Tyne

Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland

Norwich Castle Museum

NSU Art Museum, Ft. Lauderdale

Open Museum, Environmental & Heritage Resource Centre, Leicestershire

Orlando Museum of Art

Paine Webber Group, Inc, New York

Pérez Art Museum, Miami

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Philip Morris, Inc., New York

Phoenix Art Museum

Pier Arts Centre, Orkney

Power Institute, University of Sydney

Princeton University Art Museum

Reader's Digest Art Collection, New York

Ruhr Universitat, Bochum

Saastamoisen Säätiö, Helsinki

Sala Rekalde, Bilbao

Sammlung Essl, Vienna / Klosterneuburg

Sammlung Ströher, Darmstadt

Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere

Seattle Art Museum

Shearson Lehman American Express Inc., New York

Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München

Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

Staatliche Museen Kassel, Neue Galerie, Hessen

Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart

Städel Museum, Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt

Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

Stanford University

Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art

Tate, London

Tel Aviv Museum of Art

The Albertina Museum, Vienna

The British Museum, London

The Broad Art Foundation, Los Angeles

The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu

The GAP Collection, San Francisco

The Gertsev Collection, Moscow

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

The Maramotti Collection, Reggio Emilia

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

The National Gallery, London

The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.

The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham

Toledo Museum of Art

Tokyo International Forum Art Collection

UBS Art Collection, New York and Zurich

Ulster Museum, Belfast

University of Limerick

University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne

Van Cliburn Foundation, Fort Worth

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond

Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

Willy Michel Collection, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven

Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe

2024

Richter/Scully. Celestial Mechanics: form and future in the works of Gerhard Richter & Sean Scully
The Asia Society, Hong Kong;
Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong

Géographies
Ludwig Museum, Koblenz

Dark Yet
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin


2023

Wall of Light Land
Lisson Gallery, Beijing

Géographies
Passerelle Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brest

LA Deep
Lisson Gallery, Los Angeles

Jack the Wolf (with Oisin Scully)
Cheim & Read, New York

Arles Nacht Vincent
Collection Lambert, Avignon

Landline Weave
Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

Smaller Than The Sky
Houghton Hall, Norfolk


2022

Material World
Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen

Sean Scully: Passenger – A Retrospective
Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art

Sean Scully: Painting and Sculpture
Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej (CSW), Toruń

SQUARE
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

Song of Color
Langen Foundation, Neuss

Sean Scully: The Shape of Ideas
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Bodies of Color
KUNSTWEK Sammlung Klein, Eberdingen-Nussdorf

The Shadow of Figuration
Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg

A Wound in a Dance with Love
Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna

Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong

Big Small
Lisson Gallery, East Hampton


2021

Sean Scully: Passenger – A Retrospective
Benaki Museum, Athens

Wall Big And Small
Lisson Gallery, East Hampton

Overlay
Kewenig Galerie, Berlin

Sean Scully: The Shape of Ideas
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Standing on the Land
Pilane Sculpture Park, Klövedal

Dark Windows
Lisson Gallery, New York

The 12 / Dark Windows
Chelsea Studio, New York

Entre ciel et terre / Between Heaven and Earth
Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

Eleuthera
Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin


2020

Passenger – A Retrospective
Museum of Fine Arts – Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest

Mirror Red
Lisson Gallery, East Hampton

Insideoutside
Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal

Opulent Ascension
LWL – Museum of Art and Culture, Münster

Aeternum
Forum Paracelsus, St. Moritz

Early Prints
Galerie Klüser, Munich


2019

Celtique
Château de Boisgeloup, Gisors

Eleuthera
The Albertina Museum, Vienna, travelled to:
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga;
Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin

Los años en Mexico
Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara

Human
Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice

Vita Duplex
LWL – Museum for Art and Culture, Münster

PAN
Lisson Gallery, New York

Long Light
Villa Panza, Varese

Sea Star
National Gallery of Art, London


2018

THE LAND / THE LINE
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

Uninsideout
Blain | Southern, London

Landline
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., travelled to:
The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford

Inside Outside
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield

Matisse / Scully: Window
Kewenig Galerie, Berlin

Selected prints – etchings and lithographs
Galerie Boisserée, Cologne

Landlines and other recent works
De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg

Standing on the Edge of the World
Hong Kong Art Centre

Vita Duplex
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

No Words
Edward Hopper House, Nyack

Facing East
The State Russian Museum – The Marble Palace, St. Petersburg

Wall of Light
Mnuchin Gallery, New York

Cuadra San Cristóbal, Mexico City

1970
Laing Art Gallery and Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, travelled to:
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool


2017

Facing East
Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow

Before New York
Sean Scully Studio, Berlin

Lempertz, Brussels

Wall of Light Cubed
Cheim & Read, New York

Coming and Going
Sean Scully Studio, New York


2016

Horizon
Timothy Taylor, London

Metal
Galerie Lelong, Paris

Book
Garrison Art Center, Garrison

The Eighties
Mnuchin Gallery, New York

The Body and the Frame
Dům Umění České Budějovice, House of Art, Budweis

Circa 70
Cheim & Read, New York

Resistance and Persistence. Paintings 1967–2015
Museum of the Nanjing University of the Arts, travelled to:
Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan


2015

Etchings for Federico García Lorca
Cincinnati Art Museum

Four Days
Kewenig Galerie, Berlin

Different Places
Château La Cote, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade

Santa Cecilia de Montserrat

Home
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

Land Sea
La Biennale di Venezia ‘Collateral Events’, Palazzo Falier, Venice

Painting as an imaginative world appropriation
Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus

Estampe
Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal

Moving or Profound or Necessary or Beautiful, 1974–2015
Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo

Follow the Heart
CAFA – Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing

Landline
Cheim & Read, New York


2014

Follow the Heart
Shanghai Himalayas Museum

Galerie Klüser & Galerie Klüser 2, Munich

Figure / Abstract
Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, travelled to:
Kunsthalle Rostock;
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork

Kind of Red
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London

A New Master Among Old Masters
Christ Church Gallery, Oxford

Doric
Galerie Lelong, Paris


2013

Triptychs
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

Night and Day
Cheim & Read, New York

Die Radierungen / The Etchings
Galerie Boisserée, Cologne

Passages/Impressions/Surfaces
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle

Change and Horizontals
Walter Storms Galerie, Munich, travelled to:
Galleria nazionale d’arte moderna, Rome;
The Drawing Center, New York


2012

The Evocative Capacity of Painting
Wooson Gallery, Daegu

The Verey Gallery, Eton College, Windsor

Notations
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Doric
Benaki Museum of Art, Athens, travelled to:
Institut Valencià d’Art Modern;
The Hugh Lane, Dublin;
MACM – Mougins Museum of Classical Art, Mougins

Luz del Sur
Alhambra – Palacio Carlos V, Granada

Grey Wolf – A Retrospective
Kunstmuseum Bern, travelled to:
Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz

Change and Horizontals
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, travelled to:
MIMA – Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

Works on Paper / Wall of Light Red Shade
Smith Gallery, Davidson College


2011

Paintings and Watercolors
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Cut Ground
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

Etchings & Works on Paper
Rabley Contemporary Drawing Centre, Wiltshire

Works on Paper
Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, George Washington University


2010

Liliane
Alexander and Bonin, New York

Die Bilderwelt von Sean Scully
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz

New York
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London

Iona
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

Works from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
The Old Jail Art Center, Albany

Works from the 1980s
VISUAL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, travelled to:
Leeds Art Gallery;
Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen


2009

Recent Paintings
Galerie Lelong, New York

Recent Works
Walter Storms Galerie, Munich

Konstantinopel oder die versteckte Sinnlichkeit. Die Bilderwelt von Sean Scully (Constantinople or the Sensual Concealed. The imagery of Sean Scully)
MKM Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, travelled to:
Ulster Museum, Belfast

Paintings from the 90s
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London


2008

Galeria Carles Taché, Barcelona

La surface peinte
Galerie Lelong, Paris

A Retrospective
Musée d’art Moderne, St. Etienne, travelled to:
MACRO al Mattatoio, Rome

The Art of the Stripe
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover

The Prints of Sean Scully
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, travelled to:
Hyde Collection, Glens Falls


2007

Photographien Und Graphik
Galerie Klüster, Munich

The Prints of Sean Scully
The Baker Museum, Naples

New Painting
Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zürich

The Prints of Sean Scully
SAAM Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Walls of Aran
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

Aran Islands. A Portfolio of Photographs
Galerie Lelong, New York

Walls of Aran
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

A Retrospective
Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona

Dedicado a Federio García Lorca
Instituto Cervantes Dublin


2006

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Timothy Taylor Gallery, London

Recent Paintings
L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice

Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

Die Architektur der Farbe
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein


2005

Wall of Light
The Philips Collection, Washington D.C., travelled to:
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth;
Cincinnati Art Museum;
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

para Garcia Lorca
Sala de Exposiciones Acala 31, Madrid

Photographs
Galerie Carles Taché, Barcelona

Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

Mirrors 1982–2004 prints, editions & photographs
La Louviere Museum

New York
Galerie Lelong, New York

Malerie: kleine Formate
Staatliche Museen Kassel, Neue Galerie

Paintings and Works on Paper
Abbot Hall Art Gallery at Lakeland Artists Trust, Kendal

Graphic Works
Fenton Gallery, Cork

Faith Hope Love
Augustinerkloster, Erfurt


2004

Photographs
Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum

body of light
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Sala de Exposiciones Caja España-Duero, Salamanca

Holly Series
Kunstverein Aichach

Winter Robe
Galerie Lelong, Paris

Estampes 1983–2003
Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris

Etchings for Federico Garcia Lorca
Huerta de San Vicente, Casa – Museum Federico Garcia Lorca Foundation, Granada

Tigres en el jardin
Centro Jose Guerrero, Granada

Paintings from the 70s
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London

Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

Fotografias
Galerie Estiarte, Madrid

España-Spain-Spanien
Kunsthalle Harry Graf Kessler, Weimar

Photographs
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich

Serge Sorokko Gallery, San Francisco


2003

Prints and Photographs
Aleander and Bonin Gallery, New York

Photographs
L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice

Photographs
Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zürich

Works 1990–2003
Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere, travelled to:
Neues Museum Weimar

Wall of Light, Figures
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London

Galerie Carles Taché, Barcelona

Hôtel des Arts, Toulon


2002

L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice

Wall of Light
Centro de Arte Helio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro

Galerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

Wall of Light
Museum de Arte Moderno, Mexico City

Institute Valencià d’Art Modern

Chamber of Commerce of Cantabria, Santander, travelled to:
Pamplona City Council, Polvorin de la Cindadela


2001

Wall of Light
Museo De Arte Contemporaneo De Monterrey

Musée Jenisch, Vevey

Walls, Windows, Horizons
David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University

Light to Dark
Galerie Lelong, Paris

Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

Galerie Klüser, Munich

Galerie Dittmar, Berlin

Paintings, Pastels, Watercolors, Photographs 1990–2000
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, travelled to:
Haus der Kunst, Munich;
Institut Valencià d’Art Modern

New Works on Paper
Galerie Lelong, New York

Light + Gravity: Recent Wall of Light Paintings
Knoedler & Company, New York

Work on Paper
Rex Irwin Gallery, Woollahra, travelled to:
Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne


2000

Estampes 1983–1999
Musee des Beaux-Arts de Caen

Photographies
Galerie de l’ancien college, Ecole municipale d’Arts plastiques, Chatellerault

Galeria Carles Taché, Barcelona

Graphics
A+A Galleria D’Arte, Venice

Prints 1994–1998
Alan Cristea Gallery, London

Sean Scully on Paper
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Works on Paper, 1975–1996
Buffalo AKG Art Museum


1999

Ten Barcelona Paintings
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich

Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

New Paintings
South London Gallery

New Paintings and Works on Paper
Danese Gallery and Gallery Lelong, New York

Prints 1968–1999
Graphische Sammlung Albertina Vienna, travelled to:
Musee du Dessin et de l’Estampe Originale, Gravelines

Monotypes and Color Woodcuts 1987–1993 from the Garner Tullis Workshop
Galerie Kornfeld, Zürich

Galerie Lelong Paris


1998

Pastels, Watercolors, Prints and Photos
Galerie Le Triangle Blue Art Contemporain, Stavelot

Galeria Antonia Puyo, Zaragoza

New Paintings and Works on Paper
Galerie Weinberger, Copenhagen

Mirror Images. Paintings & Works on Paper
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London

Bawag Foundation, Vienna

Works on Paper 1984–1996
Milwaukee Art Museum; Denver Art Museum, travelled to:
Denver Art Museum;
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge

Seven Mirrors
Harris and Lewis Stacks, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto

Paintings and Works on Paper
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich

Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin


1997

Prints and Watercolors
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco

Paintings & Works on Paper
Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zürich

Obra Reciente: Pinturas, Acuarelas, Pasteles y Obra Grafica
Galeria DV, San Sebastian

Floating Paintings and Photographs
Galerie Lelong, Paris

Mary Boone Gallery, New York

1982–1996
Manchester City Art Galleries & The Whitworth Art Gallery

Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

Recent Paintings
Galerie Lelong, Paris

1989–1997
La Sala de Exposiciones REKALDE, Bilbao, travelled to:
Salas del Palacio Episcopal, Plaza del Obispo, Malaga

Fundacio ‘la Caixa’, Palma de Mallorca

Seven Unions
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London


1996

Works on Paper 1975–1996
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, travelled to:
Museum Folkwang Essen;
Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Hovikodden;
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester;
Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Art, Dublin

Works on Paper 1984–1996
Herning Kunstmuseum, travelled to:
Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Graphische Arbeiten
Galerie Angelika Hartmann, Stuttgart

New Pastels
Galerie Lelong, New York

Galeria Carles Tache, Barcelona

Galleria d’Arte Moderna - Villa Delle Rose, Bologna

Paintings and Works on Paper
Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, travelled to:
Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz

Culturgest, Lisbon

The Catherine Paintings (1979–1995) & Watercolours
Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg

Obra grafica reciente
Edicions T Galeria D’Art, Barcelona


1995

The Beauty of the Real
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich

Mary Boone Gallery, New York

The Catherine Paintings
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, travelled to:
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi

Twenty Years, 1976–1995
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., travelled to:
High Museum of Art, Atlanta;
Fundacio ‘la Caixa’ Centre Cultural, Barcelona;
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin;
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

Waddington Galleries, London

Galerie De L’Ancien College, Châtellerault


1994

Obra graphics 1991–1994
Galerie DV, San Sebastián

La forma e lo spirito / The Form and the Spirit
Galleria Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan

Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

Paintings
Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle

Works on Paper
Knoedler & Co., New York

The Light in the Darkness
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo


1993

Paintings. Works on Paper
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich

Heart of Darkness
Waddington Galleries, London

The Catherine Paintings
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Mary Boone Gallery, New York


1992

Waddington Galleries, London

Paintings 1973–1992
Set Gallery, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge

Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica

Woodcuts
Stephen Solovy Fine Art, Chicago

Prints and Related Works
Brooke Alexander Editions, New York

Woodcuts
Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York

New Prints
Bobbie Greenfield Fine Art, Inc., Venice

New Graphic Works
Weinberger Gallery, Copenhagen


1991

Paintings and Works on Paper
Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zürich


1990

New Paintings
McKee Gallery, New York

Monotypes from the Garner Tullis Workshop
Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York

Galerie de France, Paris

Prints
M. Art, Tokyo


1989

Bilder und Zeichnungen
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne

Pastel Drawings
Grob Gallery, London

Paintings and Works on Paper 1982–1988
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, travelled to:
Centro de Arte Reina Sofia - Palacio de Velazquez, Parque del Retiro, Madrid;
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

New Paintings
David McKee Gallery, New York


1988

Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo


1987

The Art Institute of Chicago

Galerie Schmale, Düsseldorf

Matrix / Berkeley 112
University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley

Mayor Rowan Gallery, London

Recent Monotypes and Drawings
Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis

Monotypes
David McKee Gallery, New York

Monotypes from the Garner Tullis Workshop
Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara


1986

Paintings. 1985–1986
David McKee Gallery, New York


1985

Neue Arbeiten
Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf

Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, travelled to:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Paintings and Drawings
Barbara Kraków Gallery, Boston

New Paintings
David McKee Gallery, New York


1984

Recent Paintings and Drawings
Juda Rowan Gallery, London

schilderijen – tekeningen
Galerij S65, Aalst


1983

David McKee Gallery, New York


1982

Recent Paintings
William Beadleston Inc., New York


1981

Recent Paintings
McIntosh / Drysdale Gallery, Washington D.C.

Paintings 1971–1981
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, travelled to:
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland;
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin;
Warwick Arts Trust, London

seven drawings, a wall painting: Spider* *to the people of Berlin – dedicated to Blinky Palermo
Museum für (Sub-) Kultur, Berlin

Recent Paintings
Rowan Gallery, London

Susan Caldwell Inc., New York


1980

Susan Caldwell Inc., New York


1979

Paintings 1975–1979
The Clocktower, New York

Recent Paintings
Rowan Gallery, London

Painting for One Place
Peter Nadin’s Space


1977

Paintings & Drawings
Rowan Gallery, London

Duffy / Gibbs Gallery, New York


1976

Works on Paper
La Torte Gallery, Santa Monica


1975

Recent Paintings
Rowan Gallery, London

Paintings 1974
La Torte Gallery, Santa Monica


1973

Recent Paintings
Rowan Gallery, London


1972

Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland

2024

The Code Factory
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin


2023

das gelbe Licht 6 Uhr nachmittags
Remembering, envisioning, sensing landscape, curated by Christian Malycha
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

Artists Chose Parrish
Parrish Art Museum, Long Island

1983 | 2023
Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg

What We Learn from Land and Sea
Cycladic Arts, Paros

Explorations in Paint
Petworth House, West Sussex

Time Curve
EUM The Place, Seoul

ISLAND
Hang Tough Contemporary, Dublin

Time Gravity - 2023 Chengdu Biennale
Tianfu Art Park, Chengdu


2022

Hidden UK, Hidden Ireland: Curated by Sean Scully
Flowers Gallery, London

London Calling
Palazzo Cipolla, Rome

Living With Art That We Love
South Sketch Gallery, Chatsworth House

In Memory of Lawrence Weiner
Scully Tomasko Foundation, New York

Portals
Lisson Gallery, London


2021

From the Real: Lilane Tomasko & Sean Scully
Newlands House Gallery, Petworth

Andy Warhol to Cecily Brown: From the Collection of The Albertina
The Albertina Museum, Vienna

London Calling. British Art Today. From David Hockney to Idris Khan
Fundación Bancaja, Valencia

Experience & Expression
Detroit Institute of Arts Museum


2020

Principally Painting
Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Vaduz

30 Years in Paris
Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

Double-M, Double-X
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

Spectrum
Lisson Gallery, New York

Blue
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor

Systemrelevant? / Systemically Important?
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

Rythmes et vibrations
Galerie Lelong, Paris

Gifts to the Museum
Mystic Museum of Art

Living with art: Picasso to Celmins
British Museum, London


2019

In Honor of the New MoMA
Cheim & Read, New York

The Painting, A Permanent Challenge
CaixaForum, Madrid

Masterworks on Loan
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, Eugene

Lineup
Almine Rech, New York

O Della Materia Spirituale Dell’arte
MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome

Shadowplay
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

Iconographies. From Sorolla to Picasso and Valdés
Espai Carmen Thyssen, Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Girona

Painters Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and now
Lisson Gallery, New York

Sculpture Milwaukee
4th Street and Wisconsin Avenue

Blickachsen 12
Schmuckplatz, Bad Homburg Kurpark

Shaping Ireland: Landscapes in Irish Art
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

In Colour: Sickert to Riley
Charleston - Wolfson Gallery, East Sussex

Der duft der bilder – Werkke der colección olorVISUAL, Barcelona
Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst

Criminal Ornamentation: Yinka Shonibare MBE curates the Arts Council Collection
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter

Assemblage and Abstraction
Princeton University Art Museum


2018

Abstracted Wonders: The Power of Lines
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City

On the way through the collections of Centre for Engravings and Prints of La Louvière
Wallonie-Brussels Center, Paris

art and friendship
Green Door Gallery, Brooklyn

Catch It & Lose It
Locks Gallery, Philadelphia

Der duft der bilder – Werkke der colección olorVISUAL, Barcelona
Art and Culture Foundation Opelvillen Rüsselsheim

Beyond Borders
Villa Empain – Foundation Boghossian, Brussels

Doodle & Disegno
Blain | Southern, Berlin

Frieze Sculpture
Regent’s Park, London

Picasso. Gorky. Warhol. Sculptures and Works on Paper. Hubert Looser Collection
Kunsthalle Krems

Sculpture in the City
London

250th Summer Exhibition
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Conrad Shawcross / MATRIX 179
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford

Abstract / ion
Galerie Klüser 1 & 2, Munich

Unexpected Encounters
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

TWENTY
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

MURS
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen

As Far as the Eye Can See. New Insight into the Würth Collection
Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall

Hope is Strong
Millennium Gallery, Museums Sheffield

Splendeurs du pastel – De la Renaissance à nos jours
Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne

and per se and xxi - Sean Scully and Lilliane Tomask
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

and per se and: part XX – Celtic Head of a Man & Sean Scully
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh


2017

DARK SQUARES
Walter Storms Galerie, Munich

40 years Walter Storms Galerie, Part II
Walter Storms Galerie, Munich

Abstraction: Resistance and Persistence
Locks Gallery, Philadelphia

Über den Umgang mit Menschen, wenn Zuneigun im Spiel ist. Sammlung Klein
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart

The Horizontal
Cheim & Read, New York

LOOK! New Acquisitions
The Albertina Museum, Vienna

Abstract Painting Now!
Kunsthalle Krems

Against Landscape
Glasgow School of Art

beide | both
Kunstwerk – Sammlung Alison and Peter W. Klein, Eberdingen-Nussdorf

Restless Gestures. Works from the Hubert Looser Collection
The National Gallery, National Museum of Norway, Oslo

Summer Exhibition
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Art contemporani (1984–2010)
Centro Cultural Bancaja, Fundación Bancaja, Valencia

Park, Hong Kong
Lightstage, Hong Kong

Park, Guangzhou
Holly’s Gallery, Guangzhou

Minimalism / Post Minimalism
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro

The Power of the Avant-garde
The Feliks Jasienski Syolayski House, National Museum, Krakoq

International Ireland
Ulster Museum, Belfast


2016

Kircher, Léger, Scully & more
The Hilti Art Foundation, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein

Night in the Museum: Ryan Gander curates the Arts Council Collection
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

Prints – Grafiken Von 1970 Bis 2015
Galerie Klüser & Galerie Klüser 2, Munich

ING Discerning Eye Exhibition
Mall Galleries, London

Wir sind was wir sammeln (We Are What We Collect)
Museum Lothar Fischer, Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz

Artists of the Gallery – Paintings, Drawings and Prints
Galerie Boisserée, Cologne

The Space Between Lines
Locks Gallery, Philadelphia

The Power of the Avant-garde
Centre for Fine Arts, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels

Architecture of Color: The Legacy of Luis Barragán
Timothy Taylor, New York

Sean Scully + Liliane Tomasko
Centro Cultural Bancaja, Fundación Bancaja, Valencia

Jacob Kainen, Thomas Nozowski, and Sean Scully
Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington D.C.

Just Black and White
Galerie Klüser, Munich

BASQUIAT, DUBUFFET, SOULAGES… A PRIVATE COLLECTION
The Foundation Hermitage, Lausanne

As If, at Home
Box Freiraum, Berlin

Summer Exhibition
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Modernist Intersections: The Tia Collection
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson

The Looser Collection. Dialogues
Museum Folkwang, Essen

Cher(e)s Ami(e)s: Hommage aux donateurs des collections contemporaines
Centre Pompidou, Paris

Material Considerations
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco

Group Show of Editions
Nicholas Gallery, Belfast


2015

Centennial Impressions from the Fort Worth Modern
Flatbed Press and Gallery, Austin

Meisterwerke III
Galerie Rother & Winter, Wiesbaden

Resistance and Persistence
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

Euroscope
Cercle Cité, Luxembourg

Passion and Commitment: The Art of Luther Brady
FreedmanArt, New York

B[e]52!
Kunsthaus Maximilian, Munich

Surface Tension
The FLAG Art Foundation, New York

Stoney Road Press Limited Edition Books
Stoney Road Press, Dublin

Salas Municipales de Exposiciones de la Iglesia de las Francesas y del Museo de la Pasión
Galerie Lelong, Valladolid

The Patton Collection: A Gift to North Carolina
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Meet Me Halfway: Selections from the Anita Reiner Collection
Cristin Tierney, New York

Ein Moment-ewig
Sammlung Alison and Peter W. Klein, Eberdingen-Nussdorf


2014

5 Years Schellingstrabe
Walter Storms Galerie, Munich

Red, Yellow and Blue
Galleri Andersson Sandström – Umea

La matière noire (Black Matter)
Galerie Siman Blais, Montreal

The Phillips Collection: Picasso and Great Artists
The Daejeon Museum of Art, travelled to:
The Seoul Arts Center

Contemporary Art: Selections from the Museum’s Collection
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

As Exciting As We Can Make It: Ikon in the 1980s
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

Accrochage – Neuankäfe und auswähtken Expinate aus den Bestäden
Galerie Boisserée, Cologne

Love Story – Sammlung Anne & Wolfgang Titze
Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna

Couleurs Contemporaines
Centre D’Art de Chateauvert

Summer Exhibition
Royal Academy of Arts, London

IMMA Collection: Conversations
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

The Artist’s Eye
Hunt Museum, Limerick

Exhibition of works from AIB collection in Ballsbridge
The Hunt Museum, Limerick

Group Show
L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice

B/W
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London

The Klüser Collection: Back to the Future. Drawings from Tiepolo to Warhol
Kunsthalle Krems

Post-Picasso. Reaccions contemporaneas (Post-Picasso: Contemporary Reactions)
Museum Picasso, Barcelona

The Collection of the IVAM. XXV Anniversary
Institut Valenciá d’Art Modern

Reproductibilitat 1.1
Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern, Palma de Mallorca

Record’art
Caadaques Church, girona

Encounter: Royal Academy of Arts in China
Yuan Museum, Beijing


2013

Once upon a time and a very good time it was…
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

Farbiges Grau
Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin

93
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporaánea, A Coruña

Marokkanische Teppiche und Die Kunst Der Moderne (Moroccan Carpets and Modern Art)
Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum, Munich

Linear Abstraction
Alan Cristea Gallery, London

Entre Bambalinas… Arte y Moda
Institut Valencià d’Art Modern

Summer Exhibition
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Edge, Oder, rupture
Galerie Lelong, New York

Window to the World: From Dürer to Mondrian and Beyond
Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne


2012

Stimuli: Prints and Multiples
Alexander and Bonin, New York

Window to the World: From Dürer to Mondrian and Beyond
Museo Cantonale d’Arte and Museo d’Arte, Lugano

“Chemin faisant. . .”
Musee jurassien des Arts, Moutier

Abstract Drawings
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Summer Exhibition
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Bremerhaven-Berlin-Aichach: 35 artworks from 3 places and 37 years
Zweigstelle Berlin


2011

Multiplicity
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

The Indiscipline of Painting: International abstraction from the 1960s to now
Tate St Ives, travelled to:
Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry

Body and Soul: Lawrence Carroll, Gotthard Graubner, Sean Scully
Hôtel des Arts, Toulon

Planos Sensibles
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Alicante

Gravity
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork

The Minimal Gesture
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London

Eroi / Heroes
Galleria Civica D’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin

The Cincinnati Art Award: Gifts and Warhol Portraits of Doug Cramer
Cincinnati Art Museum

Zettels Traum: Die Zeichnungssammlung Bern und Verena Klüser
Von Der Heydt – Museum, Wuppertal

The Shadow of the Corner of the Wall. Liliane Tomasko and Sean Scully
Das Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin

Selected Prints
Galerie Klüser, Munich

Photography: Richard Deacon, Frederick Hammersley, Sean Scully, Juan Uslé
L.A. Louver, Venice

Group Exhibition
Firestone Library, Rare Books & Special Collections, Princeton University


2010

The Moderns: The Arts in Ireland from the 1900s to the 1970s
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

The Hugh Lane Centenary Print Collection
Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar

Decameron
New York Studio School

Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Living with Art: Collecting Contemporary in Metro New York
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase

More Photographs Than Bricks
Luther W. Brady Art Gallery / George Washington University, Washington D.C.

From Homer to Hopper: American Watercolor Masterworks from the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester

17 Malern
Bayerische Akademie der Schönon Künste, Munich


2009

The Weight of Light
VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow

Passports
Whitechapel Gallery, London, travelled to
Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan

IN-FINITUM
53rd Venice Biennale, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice

Historias del Confin
IVAM Institut Valencià d’Art Modern

Markierungen, Sean Scully & Jannis Kounellis
401 Contemporary, Berlin

1999 / 2000, Regard Sur La Collection Du Conseil Général Du Var
Hôtel des Arts, Toulon

Shaping Reality: Geometric Abstraction after 1960
Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Pop to Present
Pigott Family Gallery, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University

Second Biennial of the Canary Islands
Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno – Los Balcones 11 y 13, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Regards Croises: Les oeuvres de la BEI à la BCEE
Galerie d’art contemporain – Am Tunnel & Espace Edward Steichen, Luxembourg

Drei. Das Triptychon in der Moderne
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart

Building with Colour
Gallery North, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne

Kunstwerke aus der UBS Art Collection im Opern Turm Frankfurt
Der Opern Turm, Frankfurt


2008


Color into Light
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Made in Munich
Haus der Kunst, Munich

Hugh Lane Centenary Print Collection
The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin

The 183rd Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, New York

Paper Trail II: Passing Through Clouds
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham

Rhythmus 21 – Positionen des Abstrakten
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

Unique Act: Five Abstract Painters
Dublin City Gallery, the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin

Monet-Kandinsky-Rothko und die folgen Wege der abstrakten Malerei
BA-CA Kunstforum Wien, Palais Ferstel, Vienna

New Horizons: the Collection of the Ishibashi Foundation
Bridgestone Museum of Art, Ishibashi Foundation, Tokyo

MAXImin, Maximum Minimization in Contemporary Art
Fundación Juan March, Madrid

Art is for the Spirit: Works from The UBS Art Collection
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo


2007

La vida privada: Coleccion Josep Civit
Centro de Arte y Naturaleza – Fundación Beulas, Huesca

DE-Natured. Painting. Sculpture and Work on Paper from the Anderson Collection + the Anderson Graphic Arts Collection
San Jose Museum of Art

Frisch Gestrichen
Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf

Themes and Variations in Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Collecting the Past, Present, Future – Highlights of British Art from Turner to Freud
Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal

Große Malerei
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz

Before and After Minimalism: A Century of Abstract Tendencies in the DaimlerChrysler Collection
Museu d’Art Espanyol, Palma de Mallorca

Contemporary Fundacion Juan March
Fundacion Juan March, Madrid

(I’m Always Touched) By Your Presence, Dear: New Acquisitions
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Samuel Beckett
Centre Pompidou, Paris

Radharc
Galway Arts Centre

Klasse Scully
whiteBOX e.v., Kultfabrik, Munich


2006

Sammlung Essl – Kunst der Gegenwart
Kunstverein Villa Wessel, Iserlohn

Big Juicy Paintings (and more): Selections from the Permanent Collection
Pérez Art Museum, Miami

Against the Grain, Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Homage to Chilida
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

The Unknown Masterpiece
ARTIUM Centro – Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporaneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz

Nomaden im Kunstsalon – Begegungen mit derModerne von Bayer bis Sol LeWitt
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz


2005

SIAR 50: 50 Years of Irish Art from the Collection of the Contemporary Irish Art Society
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Sean Scully, Stephan Girard, Nicolas Ruel
Galerie Orange Art Contemporain, Montreal, travelled to:
Galerie Lacerte Art Contemporain, Québec City

Solvano Un Quadro Al Massimo
Accademia Tedesca Roma Villa Massimo, Rome

Minimalism and After IV
Daimler Contemporary Berlin

Eye of the Storm: The IMMA Collection
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Nueva tecnologia-nueva iconografia-nueva fotografia
Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Cuenca

The Living Person
Fondazione Culturale Edison, Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, Naples

After The Thaw - Recent Irish Art from the AIB Collection
Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork

Western Biennale of Art: Art Tomorrow
John Natsoulas Center for the Arts, Davis

Von Paul Gauguin bis Imi Knobel, Werke aus der Hilti Art foundation
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz


2004

Iranische Flachgewebe im Spiegel der Moderne
Historisches und Völkerkundenmuseum, St. Gallen

Beneath the Sky
Cavan County Museum, Ballyjamesduff

La Collection
Hôtel des Arts, Toulon

Destination Germany
Kunst Galerie Fürth

Nueva tecnologia-nueva iconografia-nueva fotografia
Museu d’Arte Español Contemporary, Palma de Mallorca

Matisse to Freud: A Critic’s Choice – The Alexander Walker Bequest
British Museum, London

Monocromos: De Malevich al Presente
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

Behind Closed Doors
Katonah Museum of Art

In the time of shaking. Irish Artists for Amnesty International
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Views from an Island and Representing the Tain
Beijing World Art Museum, travelled to:
Shanghai Art Museum

Bearings: Landscapes from the IMMA Collection
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Picasso to Thiebaud
Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University

Masterprints
Sundsvalls Museum


2003

Grafiikkaa ja piirustuksia
Forum Box, Helsinki

Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Fund Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland

The Museum Store Collects
Arizona State University Art Museum, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Tempe

Avant-garde und Tradition
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz

Human Stories – Photos and Paintings from the Essl Collection
The Ludwig Museum Budapest - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest

Taché a Pelaires (Carroll, Cragg, Kounellis, Rousse, Scully)
Pelaires Centre Cultural Contemporary, Palma de Mallorca


2002

110 Years: The Permanent Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Watercolor
New York Studio School

Colour / Concept
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Extranjeros – Los Otros Artistas Españoles
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia

No Object, No Subject, No Matter… Abstraction in the IMMA Collection
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

177th Annual Exhibition
National Academy of Design, New York

Epic Paintings from the Luther W. Brady Collection
Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, George Washington University, Washington D.C.

25 Bienal De São Paulo
Fundação Bienal De São Paulo

Augenblick, Foto / Kunst
Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, Vienna

The Rowan Collection: Contemporary British and Irish Art
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Profile of a Collection: The Gordon Lambert Trust Collection at IMMA
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Watercolor: In the Abstract
Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center, SUNY College at Fredonia, travelled to:
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown;
Ben Shahn Gallery, William Patterson University, Wayne;
Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa


2001

A Century of Drawing: Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Watercolor: In the Abstract
The Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glen Falls


2000

Shifting Ground. Selected Works of Irish Art 1950–2000
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Import
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Une Ville – Une Collection
Centre de la Gravure et de I’Image Imprimee, La Louviere

Collection MMKSLW: Viena, de Warhol a Cabrita Reis
Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela

Von Albers bis Paik: Konstruktive Werke aus der Sammlung DaimlerChrylser
Haus für Konstruktive und Konkrete Kunst, Zürich

L’Ombra Della Ragione: L’Idea Del Sacro Nell’Identita Europa Nel XX Secolo
Galleria D’Arte Moderna Bologna

Drawing in the Present Tense
Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, travelled to:
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks

On Canvas: Contemporary Painting from the Collection
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York


1999

Zeitschnitt 1900–2000: 100 Jahre, 100 Werke
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz

25 Jahre / 25th Anniversary
Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zürich

The Essl Collection: The First View
Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, Vienna

Drawing in the Present Tense
Parsons School of Design, New York

A Land of Heart’s Desire: 300 Years of Irish Art
Ulster Museum of Art, Belfast

The Art of Collecting
Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis

Geometrie als Gestalt: Strukturen der Modernen Kunst von Albers bis Paik: Werke der Sammlung DaimlerChrysler
Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatlich Museen zu Berlin

Unlocking the Grid. Concerning the Grid in Recent Painting
Main Gallery, University of Rhode Island, Kingston

Tore A. Holm’s Collection of Contemporary European Art – An Encounter between North and South
Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, Madrid


1998

Cleveland Collects Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland

Lawrence Carroll and Sean Scully
Lawing Gallery, Houston

Sarajevo 2000
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wein, Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna

45th Corcoran Biennial
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Arterias: Collection of Contemporary Art Fundacio la Caixa
Malmö Konsthal

The Edward R. Broida Collection: A Selection of Works
Orlando Museum of Art

Zeit und Materie
Baukunst, Cologne

Welcome Back!
Denver Art Museum

Contemporary Art; The Janet Wolfson de Botton Gift
Tate Gallery, London

On a Clear Day
Graphische Sammlung, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

Acquisitions 1997
Hôtel du Departement, Creteil

En Norsk Samling Au Europeisk Kunst
Trondheim Kunstmuseum


1997

The Pursuit of Painting
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Thirty-Five Years at Corwn Point Press: Making Prints, doing Art
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., travelled to:
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco

Singular Impressions: The Monotype in America
National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.

After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting Since 1970
Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbour Cultural Center, Staten Island

Holländisches Bad: Radierungen zur Renaissance einer Technik
Brecht-Haus-Weissensee, Berlin

A Century of Irish Paintings: Selections from the Collection of The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art
The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, travelled to:
The Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo;
Mitaka City Gallery of Art, Tokyo;
Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art

The View From Denver: Contemporary American Art from the Denver Art Museum
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wein, Vienna

British Arts Council Collection
Roal Festive Hall, London


1996

Holländisches Bad: Radierungen zur Renaissance einer Technik
Kunsthaus Hamburg

Thinking Print: Books to Billboards 1980–95
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Nuevas Abstracciones
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, travelled to:
Kunsthalle Bielefeld;
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona

estival de Culture Irlandaise Contemporaine
Ecoles des Beaux-Arts, Pari

XV Salon des los 16
Museo de Antropologia, Madrid


1995

An American Passion: The Susan Kasen Summer and Robert D. Summer Collection of Contemporary British Painting
Royal College of Art, London

New York Abstract
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans

US Prints
Retretti Art Center, Punkaharju


1994

An American Passion: The Susan Kasen Summer and Robert D. Summer Collection of Contemporary British Paintin
McLellan Galleries, Glasgow

L’Incanto e la Trascendenza
Galleria Civica de Arte Contemporanea, Trento

Paper Under Pressure: Work in Collaboration with Garner Tullis
Sun Valley Center Gallery, Ketchum

For 25 Years: Brooke Alexander Editions
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Contemporary Watercolors: Europe and America
University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton

Recent Painting Acquisitions
Tate Gallery, London

Recent Acquisitions: Paintings from the Collection
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin


1993

The Turner Prize 1993
Tate Gallery, London

New Moderns
Baumgartner Galleries Inc., Washington D.C.

25 Years: A Retrospective
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland

Italia-America L’astrazione Redefinita
Dicastero Cultura Moderna, Repubblica di San Marino

Tutte le Strade Portano A Roma
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome

Drawing in Black and White
Museum of Modern Art, Grolier Club, New York

American and European Prints
Machida City Museum of Arts, Tokyo


1992

Verso Bisanzio, con disincanto
Galerie Sergio Tossi, Arte Contemporanea, Parto

Color Block Prints of the 20th Century
Associated American Artists, New York

Behind Bars
Thread Waxing Space, New York

Getelite Bilder: Das Diptychon in der neuen Kunst
Museum Folkwang Essen

Recent Abstract Painting: Ross Bleckner, Kenneth Dingwall, Susan Laufer, Ken Nevadomi, Sean Scully
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland

44th Annual Academy-Institute Purchase Exhibition
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

Monotypes, Woodcuts, Drawings
Europäische Akademie Fur Bildende Kunst, Trier

Painting on Press: Recent Abstract Prints
Madison Art Center

Whitechapel Open
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London


1991

Collaborations in Monotype from the Garner Tullis Workshop
Sert Gallery, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge

Moses, Richter, Scully
Louver Gallery, New York

Postmodern Prints
Victoria and Albert Museum, London


1990

Sean Scully / Donald Sultan: Abstraction / Representation
Stanford University Art Gallery


1989

The 1980s: Prints from the Collection of Joshua P. Smith
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Essential Painting: Kelly, LeWitt, Mangold, Scully
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

The Elusive Surface: Painting in Three Dimensions
Albuquerque Museum

The Presence of Painting: Aspects of British Abstraction 1957–1988
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, travelled to:
Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne;
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham;
Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston


1988

The Presence of Painting: Aspects of British Abstraction 1957–1988
Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield

Sean Scully & Jose Maria Sicilia
New Editions, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, travelled to:
New York

Sightings: Drawings with Color
Pratt Manhattan Gallery, Pratt Institute, New York, travelled to:
Instituto de Estudios Northeamericanos, Barcelona


1987

The Fortieth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Harvey Quaytman and Sean Scully
Ateneum, Helsinki Festival

Drawing from the 80 – Chatsworth Collaboration
Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh

Drawn-Out
Kansas City Art Institute

Magic in the Mind’s Eye: Part 1 & 2
Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Rochester

Logical Foundations
Museum of Modern Art, New York


1986

An American Renaissance in Art: Painting and Sculpture since 1940
NSU Art Museum, Ft. Lauderdale

​​​​​After Matisse
Queens Museum, Corona, travelled to:
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk;
Portland Museum of Art;
Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach;
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.;
Dayton Art Institute;
Worcester Art Museum

Public and Private: American Prints Today
Brooklyn Museum of Art

CAL Collections 1
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley

Structure / Abstraction
Hill Gallery, Birmingham

Detroiters Collect: New Generation
Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester

Recent Acquisitions
Contemporary Arts Center, Honolulu


1985

A Decade of Visual Art at Princeton: Faculty 1975–1985
Princeton University Museum of Art

Abstract Paintings as Surface and Object
Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Brookville

Art on Paper
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro


1984

An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Currents #6
Milwaukee Art Museum

Small Works: New Abstract Paintings
Lafayette College and Muhlenberg College, Allentown

Hassam & Speicher Purchase Fund Exhibition
Academy of Arts and Letters, New York


1983

Contemporary Abstract Painting
Muhlenberg College Center for the Arts, Allentown

American Abstract Artists
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, travelled to:
Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

New Directions: Contemporary American Art from the Commodities Corporation Collection
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts

New Work New York (Newcastle Salutes New York)
Newcastle Polytechnic Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne

Student’s Choice Exhibition
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven


1982

Pair Group: Current and Emerging Styles in Abstract Painting
Jersey City Museum

Critical Perspectives
P.S.1 The Institute for Art & Urban Resources, New York

Workshop F
Chelsea school of Art, London

Art for a New Year
Museum of Modern Art, New York

New Directions: Contemporary American Art from the Commodities Corporation Collection
Oklahoma Museum of Art, travelled to:
Santa Barbara Museum of Art;
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan;
Madison Art Center


1981

New Directions: Contemporary American Art from the Commodities Corporation Collection
NSU Art Museum, Ft. Lauderdale

Irish Art 1943–1973
Ulster Museum, Belfast

Catherine Porter Scully / Sean Scully: Arbeiten and Wandmalerei
Museum für (Sub-) Kultur, Berlin

Art for Collectors
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence


1980

Irish Art 1943–1973
Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork

Marking Black
Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York

New Directions
Princeton University Art Museum

The Newcastle Connection
Newcastle Polytechnic Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne

The International Connection
Sense of Ireland Festival, Roundhouse Gallery, London

Growing Up with Art
Leicestershire Collection for Schools and Colleges, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

ROSC
University College Gallery and National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin


1979

Fourteen Painters
Lehmann College Art Gallery, City University of New York

New Wave Painting
The Clocktower, New York

Certain Traditions: Recent British and Canadian Art
Art Gallery of Hamilton, travelled to:
London Regional Art Gallery;
Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. Johns;
Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno

First Exhibition
Toni Birkhead Gallery, Cincinnati

The British Art Show
Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, travelled to:
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne;
Hatton Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne;
The University Gallery, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne;
Arnolfini, Bristol;
Bristol and Royal West of England Academy

Tolly Cobbold Eastern Arts 2nd National Exhibition
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, travelled to:
Norwich Art Gallery;
Christchurch Mansion Ipswich;
Camden Art Center, London;
Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield


1978

Certain Traditions: Recent British and Canadian Art
The Edmonton Art Gallery, travelled to:
Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Calgary;
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon;
Art Gallery of Windsor

Small Works
Newcastle Polytechnic Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne


1977

British Painting 1952–1977
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Works on Paper – The Contemporary Art Society’s Gifts to Public Galleries 1952–1977
Diploma Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts, London, travelled to:
Rowan Gallery, London


1976

7 Artists from the Rowan Gallery
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, travelled to:Rowan Gallery, London


1975

The British Art Coming: Contemporary British Art
De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, travelled to:
Rowan Gallery, London

The Arts Club, London


1974

British Painting ’74
Hayward Art Gallery, London

Dixieme Biennale Internationale D’Art De Menton
Palais De L’Europe, Menton

John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 9
Walter Art Gallery, Liverpool


1973

La Peinture Anglaise Aujourd’hui
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

Critics Choice
Gulbenkian Gallery, People’s Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne


1972

John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 8
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Northern Young Painters
Stirling University


1971

Art Spectrum North
Leeds City Art Gallery, travelled to:
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne;
Manchester City Art Gallery

Annual Students’ Summer Exhibition
Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne


1970

Annual Students’ Summer Exhibition
Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle

Northern Young Contemporaries
Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester

Young Contemporaries
Royal Academy of Arts, London, travelled with Arts Council of Great Britain


1969

Annual Students’ Summer Exhibition
Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne