Sean Scully 

8.5.25, 2025

Sean Scully (b. 1945) lives and works between New York, Bavaria, and Aix-en-Provence, with his work in the collection of virtually every major museum around the world. The last five years have been marked by the major fifty-year career retrospective Sean Scully: The Shape of Ideas at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in the USA, previously shown at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas in 2021, alongside multiple solo exhibitions and retrospectives worldwide, and the inclusion of the room Sean Scully: A Romantic Geometry of Colors, in the collection of the Centre Pompidou, Paris. In 2025 alone, major international solo exhibitions include retrospectives at the Daegu Art Museum, South Korea; Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera, Casa Milà, Barcelona; Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg. In New York, the solo retrospective, Sean Scully: The Albee Barn, Montauk, opened at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York, documenting how a single month spent in Montauk in the summer of 1982, with a fellowship at The Edward F. Albee Foundation, became a pivotal place and moment in the artist’s career. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication with essays by Deborah Solomon and Steven Henry Madoff, published by Hatje Cantz.