Since the 1970s in New York, Sean Scully, born in Dublin in 1945, has continuously developed one of the most important painterly positions in geometric abstraction. His static compositions, constructed solely from stripes, bars, and squares, reveal their emotional charge in the dynamic brushwork of richly applied paint and the frayed edges of the individual image segments, which reveal the underlying layers of paint.

Numerous thematic and retrospective exhibitions with extensive publications in major museums on all continents confirm Scully’s reputation as one of the world’s most important painters. His works have been shown at the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the National Gallery, London; the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin; the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra; the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City; the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Sean Scully lives in the Hudson Valley, New York and has studios in London, Berlin and Moosurach near Munich, where he taught from 2002-2007 at the Academy of Fine Arts.