SEAN GREENE


Lives and works in Florence, MA


EDUCATION

2004
MFA University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
2003
New York Studio School, Drawing Marathon, New York, NY
1996
BFA School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1994
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.

DISTINCTIONS

2007
Blanche E. Coleman award Nomination
2004
Joan Mitchell Foundation, MFA Grant Nomination

Northampton Arts Council, Artist Grant
2003
Dedalus Foundation, Fellowship Nomination
2001-04
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Teaching Associateship
2001
Somerville Arts Council, Artist Grant

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2008
Calligraphs, Hampden Studio Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

Spring (with Sloan Tomlinson), Wunderarts, Amherst, MA
2006
WGBH, Boston, MA

New Paintings, A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, MA
2004
Pausing in Passing, Master’s Thesis Exhibition, Hampden Gallery, Amherst, MA

Color as Light, A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, MA

WALL COMMISSIONS

2010
Bread Euphoria, Haydenville, MA
2006
Artifacts 20th Century, Northampton, MA
2005
Private residence,  Washington D.C.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013
Abstraction, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA
2010
Skateboarding Side Effects, (through 11/28) The Artisphere, Arlington, VA, curated by Cynthia Connolly.

Nonobjective, (through 11/28) William Baczek Fine Arts,  (with Ali Moshiri and Jaq Chartier), Northampton, MA.

Stategic Abstraction, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

Some Are Painting, curated by David Gibson, Gallery 532, Thomas Jaeckel, New York, NY

Winter Invitational, (upcoming, December) The Painting Center, New York, NY.
2009
Old School, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY.

Present Tense, A.P.E., (with Clint Jukkala, Yvonne Estrada and Barbara Neulinger), Northampton, MA

Casheesh Part Two, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

Out of Sight,  wunderarts, Amherst, MA

Pool Art Fair, Article Projects Rooms curated by David Gibson, New York, NY
2008
Small, Wunderarts, Amherst, MA
2007
New Art 2007, MPG Contemporary (juror: Raphaela Platow), Boston, MA
2005
New York/New England/New Talent 2005, Hampden Gallery, Amherst , MA
2004
Small Works, A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, MA

Annual Juried Show, (juror: Joseph Ketner, Milwaukee Art Museum), Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
2003
Keepsakes,Juice, San Francisco, CA

Contemporary Drawing 2003, T.W. Wood Gallery, Vermont College, Montpelier, VT

Small World, New City Art, Easthampton, MA
2002
Northeast Juried Exhibition, Karen Sprague Cultural Arts Center, Springfield, MA
2001
Fourth NAA Regional Juried Show, (juror: Adam Weinberg, Whitney Museum) Newburyport Art Association, Newburyport, MA

New Art: 2001, (juror: Rachel Rosenfeld-Lafo, Decordova Museum) MPG Contemporary, Boston, MA

Somerville Arts Council: 2001 Grant Winners, Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA
2000
Praebeo, District BWR, Boston, MA

Discovering a Neighborhood, The Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA

Best of the Best, Visual Arts Museum, New York, NY
1999
Windmilling, The New Lab, Denver, CO

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY


Laura Holland, “Float and Stay On: Sean Greene Sees the Light in Skateboard Moves and Color Interaction,” Preview Massachusetts, November, 2010, 14.

Lavanya Ramanathan and Stephanie Merry, “Arlington’s Artisphere” The Washington Post, October 8, 2010, Weekend, 24.

Melissa Breor, “Driven to Abstraction,” Daily Hampshire Gazette/Amherst Bulletin, July 16, 2009, Arts C1,C4.

Pheobe Mitchell, “Dreaming of Light, Nature,” Daily Hampshire Gazette, August 10, 2004, Living, 7.

Sarah Fishman, “Unearthing the Past of a City Block,” The Boston Sunday Globe, April 30, 2000, City Weekly, 7.

Spencer Duane Herbst, “Sean Greene, Brain Floss,”Transworld Skateboarding, Vol.16, June, 1998, 182.

NOTED COLLECTIONS


Neiman Marcus, Natick, MA






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