Sean Lynch (artist)


Sean Lynch is a contemporary Irish visual artist.

Career

Lynch studied art at the Städelschule and has a master's degree in History of Art from the University of Limerick.
Lynch represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 2015. He has also held exhibitions with EVA International, the Hugh Lane Gallery, Modern Art Oxford, the Royal Hibernian Academy, the Charles H. Scott Gallery, the Rose Art Museum, and the Douglas Hyde Gallery. In 2019 he created an exhibition about the Yorkshire forger Flint Jack for the Yorkshire Sculpture International 2019 art exhibition, displayed in the Henry Moore Institute.
In 2019 he was Visiting Professor of Sculpture at Carnegie Mellon School of Art, Pittsburgh.

Museum projects

Sleepwalkers at the Hugh Lane Gallery, curated by Michael Dempsey and Logan Sisley, was a two-year project in which six artists were invited to use the museum's resources, reveal their artistic process, and to collaborate with each other in this "unusual experiment in exhibition production". This process culminated in each artist developing a solo exhibition at the Hugh Lane Gallery and a publication. Lynch's exhibition was titled A Blow-by-Blow Account of Stonecarving in Oxford and took place during July – September 2013.

Publications