Sean Shanahan
Dublino, 1960
Vive e lavora in Montevecchia / Lives and works in Montevecchia.



Gallery Exhibitions



2021The tribute (with Chiara Dynys) – Luca Tommasi Arte Contemporanea, Milan, IT
2018Sudden time (with Chiara Dynys) – Villa Panza, Varese, IT
2018Anne Blanchet / Sean Shanahan, Body of Light, Luca Tommasi, Milano, IT
2016Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
2016Seven Last Words - Galleria San Fedele, Milan
2012Oasery Tracery, The Golden Bough, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
2011Placer Tracery, House of Art, Budwies
2009Ulster Museum, Belfast
2009Interludium, Newman House - St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin
2008Unique Act - Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin
2007Kunst-Stattion, Sankt Peter, Köln
2005Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
2003Galleris S65, Aalst
2003Slewe Galerie, Amsterdam
2003Rarae Aves, Amsterdam
2002New Paintings, Galerie s65, Cologne
2002Eclipse, Villa Pomini, Castellanza
2002Vidar, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
2001Blue - Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
2000Marrano, Fondazione Scampi, San Giorgio Scarampi
200010 Drawings, Copyright Tutti, Verduno
1999Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
1998Slewe Galerie, Amsterdam
1998Palazzo Comunale, Merate
1998Galleria Grossetti, Milan
1998Baukunst, Cologne
1997Edition X, Cologne
1997Extra Moenia, (with Roberto Caracciolo), Todi
1997Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
1996Galerie M Jordan b.Devarriuex, Paris
1995Slewe Galerie, Amsterdam
1995Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
1995Orchard Gallery, Derry
1994Turchetto-Plurima, Udine
1993Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
1992Studio Carlo Grossetti, Milan
1991Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
1990Studio Carlo Grossetti, Milan
1990Geert Schriever, Amsterdam
1989Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam
1987Hillman Holland Fine Arts, Atlanta (USA)
1986 Galerie T'Venster, Rotterdam
1986Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam
1985Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam
1984Luigi Deambrogi, Milan
1983Luigi Deambrogi, Milan


2017Harvest, Theca Gallery, Milano
2015The Perception of the Future, Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia
2012Galleria Rubin, Milano
2011Fabbri Contemporary Art, Milan
2011Alla luce della Croce Arte antica e contemporanea a confronto, Raccolta Lercaro, Bologna
2010State of mind. The Panza Collection, Centre of contemporary art, Lucca
2010Homage a A.Scaccabarazzi, Galerie Katherine Krohn, Basel
2010Le Deuil, IFF, Marsielle
2010Hugh Lane Centenary Print Exhibition - Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford
2010 La pittura è oro #2, DOCVA - Documentation center of Visual Arts, Milan
2009The Weight of Light, Visual - Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow
2009Terror and the Sublime: Art in an Age of Anxiety - Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
2007Colour Based Paintings - Bergner & Job Galerie, Mainz
2006Color Based Paintings ll - Bergner & Job Galerie, Mainz
2006Crystal Grey - Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
2005Lebendiges Grau - Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen
2004Color Based Paintings - Bergner & Job Galerie, Mainz
2003Colour Chart - Ormaeu Baths, Belfast
2003Trilogia del colore - Galleria Rubin, Milan
2003Seeing Red - Hunter college, New YorkTriangolino Arts centre Riverbank, Newbridge
2003Colour Based Painting - Bergner + Job Galerie, Mainz
2002Morandi e I Morandiani - Cascina Roma, San Donato Milanese
2002Colour-A Life Of It’s Own - Mucsarnok, Kunsthalle, Budapest
2002The Rowan Collection - Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2002No Object, No Subject,No Matter… - Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2002Astrazione Zero - Spazio O, Milan
2002Gallerie S65, Cologne
2002Sei - Galleria Corraini, Mantova
2002Sight Specific - Kilkenny Arts Festival, Kilkenny
2002Palazzo Piacentini, San Benedetto del Tronto
2000Antonio Scaccabarozzi, Stephanè Bordarier and Seán Shanahan” Le 19, Centre Regional d’Art contemporian, Montbéliard
2000Shifting Ground - Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2000Galleria Grossetti, Milan
1999...Die Farbe (Rot) hat mich - Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen
1999Galerie Agnes b du Jour, Paris
1998Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
1998L’abstraction & ses territoires, Le 19 - Centre Regional d’Art contemporian, Montbéliard
1998EV+A - Limerick City Art Gallery, Limerick
1998Peter Davis,Callum Innes and Seán Shanahan - Slewe Galerie, Amsterdam
1998A collection in the Making, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
1997Residue, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
1996Non Plus Ultra - Lorenzelli Arte, Milan
1996Gallery Artists - Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
1996Optical Consciousness - travelled to Stelling Gallery, Leiden, Verduno
1996Acquisitions '95 - Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
1996150 years of Heatherleys School of Fine Art - The Mall Gallery, London
1996L'Imaginaire Irlandais - Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
1996Mostra d'Adda, Castello di Corneliano Bertario
1996Invitational, Praler Insel, Munich
1996Consistenza della pittura, Premio Michetti - Fondazione F.P. Michetti, Francavilla al Mare
1996L'inquieto geometrico - Studio Carlo Grossetti, Milan
1994Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
1993Unveiled, Cornerhouse, Manchester
1993A Selection from the Contemporary Arts Society Collection Pittori Europe, A Milano, Forum di Assago, Assago
1991Oggi - Today - Studio Carlo Grossetti, Milan
1987 Schemata - Riverside Studios, London
1987Tussenblik: de Zonnehof, Amersfoort; de Waag, Almelo; het Kruithuis, S-Hertogenbosch; Stadgalerij, Heerlen; de Lakenhal, Leiden Rijksaankopen, Rijksdienst, Beeldende kunst, het Prinsenhof, Delft, Holland.
1987Permiable del gesto, curated by Andre Garcia Cubo Centro Gallilejo, Madrid
1986Zomertentoonstelling, Den Helder
1986Kunst, RAI, Amsterdam
1986Zones - Aorta, Amsterdam
1984Five Painters - Riverside Studios, London
1982Early Works - Edinburgh Festival, Scotland