Sean McFarland
b. 1976, Thousand Oaks, California
Lives and works in San Francisco
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2005
“White Rooms”, Curated by Matthew Higgs, White Columns, New York,
NY
2004
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008
“Let Us Now Praise San Francisco”, Curated by Robert Mailer Anderson,
Marx and Zavattero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Eighteen Months” San
Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
“Permeable Landscape”,
Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Close Calls”, Headlands
Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2007
“Albedo”, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“First Anniversary / Benefit Show”,
Park Life, San Francisco
“Biome”, Lincart, San Francisco, CA
“Grown-ups of the Corn”,
Kottie Paloma and Friends Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Never Been to Houston”,
Curated by Jon Rubin, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
“Facts and Figures” (catalog),
Artwalk, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“Pause”, Curated by Rebecca Miller,
Blackbird Space, San Francisco, CA
2006
“WHERE WE HAVE BEEN WHERE WE ARE AND WHERE WE ARE GOING”, Backroom
Gallery, Adobe Bookshop, San Francisco, CA
“It’s a Small World”,
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
“Pause”, Art Miami/Basel, curated by Rebecca
Miller, Miami, FL
“Get Together”, curated
by Susan O’Malley,
The Curiosity Guild, San Francisco, CA
“Get Together!”, Curated by Susan O’Malley
and the Curiosity Guild, The Hardware Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Brains (Send More Cops)”,
Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“West Coast Windows”, Samson Projects,
Boston, MA
“Joint Venture” (catalog), Co-curated by Renny Pritikin
and Matthias Geiger, Nelson Gallery, UC Davis, Davis, CA
2005
“Phelan Award Exhibition”, juried by Sandra S. Phillips, Senior
Curator of Photography, SFMOMA and Catherine Edelman, Director, Catherine Edelman
Gallery, Chicago, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
“Altered Spaces”,
Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN
“Holiday Show”,
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"New Found Land”, Priska Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY
"THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT”,
curated by Renny Pritikin, Nelson Gallery, UC Davis, Davis, CA
“Sprawl”,
Haley Martin Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004
"Urban Echoes", Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
"Subject to Oneself",
PlaySpace Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"National Photography Institute Fellows’ Exhibition",
Columbia University, New York, NY
"Big Picture Show", Kala Art Institute,
Berkeley, CA
"Fluid Exchange", Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, Berkeley,
CA
"Group Show", curated by Eleanor Harwood, Adobe Bookshop, San Francisco,
CA
"From Whom I've Studied, From Whom I've Learned", First Street Gallery,
Eureka, CA
Awards, Grants, and Fellowships
2005
Phelan Art Award in Photography, San Francisco Foundation and SF Camerawork
2004
Fellowship, National Photography Institute, Columbia University
Dennis Leon and
Christin Nelson Scholarship, California College of the Arts
2002
Van Duzer Scholarship for the Arts, Humboldt State University
Presidential Purchase
Award, Humboldt State University
Bibliography
Cataloge for “Joint Venture”, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, UC Davis,
p.16
Leaverton, Michael, and Swanhuyser, Hiya, SFWeekly, ‘Night & Day’,
October 26 – November 1, 2005 pp.22-23
Orden, Abraham, Flash Art, ‘Aperto San Francisco’, July – September
2005
Instant City, Issue 2, Fall 2005 Cover, p.76, p.83
Nataraj, Nirmala, Artweek, ‘Sprawl at Haley Martin Gallery’,
September 2005 pp. 17-18
Justine Sharrock, San Francisco Magazine, ‘Best Eye for Talent’,
July 2005 pp. 92-93
1111 Journal of Literature and Art, ‘Untitled Works – Portfolio’,
Volume 2, 2005 pp. 58-61
Helfand, Glen, Artforum, ‘Glen Helfand on Sean McFarland’,
December 2004 pp. 201-202
Ansite, Katie, Kitchen Sink, ‘Seeing Things: Closely from a Rooftop’,
issue 9 pp.71-72
Bing, Alison, SFGate, September 23, 2004, http://sfgate.com/listings/event.php?art,e183650
Orden,
Abraham, ArtNet, ‘San Francisco Days’, http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/reviews/orden/orden11-30-04.asp
Gagnon,
Adrienne, SFWeekly, September 22 – 28, 2004 p.37
Whiteside, Amber, Artweek, ‘Urban Echoes: Wind, River,
Trees, Clouds, Chickens and Orange’ at Galería de la Raza’,
September 2004 pp. 15-16
Knobel, Kyle, Record/Play, ‘Interviews with four Bay Area Artists’,
Spring 2004 unpagenated
Collections
Oakland Museum
Humboldt State University
University of California Davis