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Sean landers biography

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Sean Landers’ exhibition at the Consortium Museum, his first in France in over 20 years, offers a retrospective outlook on his pictorial work: about forty paintings created between 1993 and today, mostly from private collections, revisit the various series punctuating the path of this artist born in 1962 in Palmer, MA, and settled in New York since the mid-1980s.

Though Sean Landers is one of today’s greatest contemporary painters, in the 1980s he actually studied sculpture at the Philadelphia College of Art and later at Yale, where Vito Acconci was his teacher. As he explains, he learned painting from his mother and his grandmother, both painters. After graduating from Yale, he came to New York in the fall of 1986, settling in an East Village building with Richard Phillips and a few others—John Currin had a studio across the street, and Lisa Yuskavage wasn’t too far away. In the East Village, where neo-conceptual artists Peter Halley and Jeff Koons were beginning to blossom, other conceptual artists who had decided on figurative painting could be found. E

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Sean Landers works primarily as a painter, but he has also made sculptures, photographs, videos and audio works. René Magritte’s Période vache, a series of paintings in which the surrealist artist made a caricature of his own style, had a big influence on Landers’ artistic practice and it made him question his relationship as an artist to his work. Landers’ work explores the question of what it is to be a contemporary artist and what it means to make something that will last beyond the lifetime of the artist. In this sense his career can be seen as a long-lasting exploration of the same question, thereby turning his oeuvre into one dynamic whole.
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His work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions, including at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France; Consortium, Dijon, France; the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; and the Kunsthalle Zurich; and numerous group exhibitions including Mirror Mirror, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, The Netherlands; The Everywhere Studio, curated by Alex Gartenfeld and Stephanie Seidel, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, CA USA;

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Sean Landers

American artist

Sean Landers (born 1962) is an American artist. He is best known for using his personal experience as public subject matter[1][2] and for utilizing diverse styles and media in a performative manner,[2][3][4] and is especially known for his word art.[5] His work encompasses many media: painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, writing, video and audio, and he uses humor and confession, gravity and pathos in it,[4][6][7] blurring the lines between fact and fiction, reality and fantasy, sincerity and insincerity.[7][8]

Landers lives and works in New York City[9]

Early life and education

Landers was born in Springfield and raised in Palmer, Massachusetts in 1962. He learned to paint from his mother, Diana George Landers, and grandmother, Muriel Brown George, who studied under the American painter Jonas Joseph LaValley.[10][11][12]

Landers received a BFA in sculpture from the Philadelphia Co

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