Bio

Sean Cairns was born in 1988 in Sparta, IL. He lives and works in Dallas, TX

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EDUCATION

2014

MFA Minneapolis College of Art and Design

2011

BFA Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design

SOLO and TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2025

Light Bearer, SHRINE, New York, NY

2024

Wearing Away The Mountain, 12.26, Dallas, TX

2023

Everyday Magic, Everyday Music, Two-Person with Joel Murray, 12.26, Dallas, TX

The Myth We Call Space and Time, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TX

2021

Handler, Vallery House Gallery, Dallas, TX

2012

Neapolitan, nAbr gallerym Art Shanty Project, Minneapolis, MN

XXXXXI with Branden Martz, Center Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

2011

Public Art Project for Convent Hill, Milwaukee, WI

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

Dallas Art Fair, 12.26, Dallas, TX

2023

Distant Star, 7 Sisters Gallery, Houston, TX

Dallas Art Fair, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TX

2022

Chateau Show, Aldredge House, Dallas, TX

Summer Group Show, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TX

Dallas Art Fair, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TX

Key of Dreams, Van der Plaz Gallery, New York, NY

2021

Dallas Art Fair, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TX

Together: 23r d Annual Membership Exhibition, The MAC, Dallas, TX

Group Show during Swiftly Flow the Days, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TX

Go Figure: Contemporary Painters and the Human Form, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX

2020

On Being Human, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TX

A Posteriori, Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, TX

Highlights from the postponed Dallas Art Fair, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TX

2019

Bird Show, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TX

CHAOS 7!, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX

Augie’s Bookshelf: Poetry Book Launch, Deep Vellum Books, Dallas, TX

2018

Rising Star 6 Art Exhibition, OCSFA Turner House, Dallas, TX

New Texas Talent XXV, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX

2017

Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Holiday Sale, Milwaukee, WI

THE GIFT EDIT, Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX

MCAD Art Sale, Minneapolis, MN

2016

DMA Staff Show, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

Primary Research, Saint Paul Place, D Magazine Building, Dallas, TX

2015

MINISHOTS, Shamrock Hotel Studios, Dallas, TX

2014

Open Studio, Shamrock Hotel Studios, Dallas, TX

DMA Staff Show, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas TX

Graduate Thesis Exhibition, MCAD, Minneapolis, MN

MCAD Art Sale, Minneapolis, MN

BI Worldwide, Law Firm, Minneapolis, MN

Tell Me About Your Mother, MCAD Grad Studios, Minneapolis, MN

2013

Minnesota Performance Collaboration with Rudy Medina, Milwaukee, WI

2012

Collaboration with Emmett Fleming, Gallery M, Milwaukee, WI

Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Student/Alumni Art Sale, Milwaukee, WI

Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Sculpture Alumni Exhibition, Milwaukee, WI

Emerging Artists, Wilson Center, Brookfield, WI

XXXXX with Branden Martz, Erie Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Group Show, Center Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

Best of Show Juried Senior Thesis Exhibition, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI

Senior Thesis Exhibition, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI

2011

Twice Removed: A Survey of Take Away Work, Golden Age, Chicago, IL

Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Art Sale, Milwaukee, WI

Walker Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI

Pop Up Show, North End Building, Milwaukee, WI

2010

Small Space, Milwaukee, WI

2009

Pritzlaff Building, Milwaukee, WI

2008

Best of Foundations Show, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI

2007

Misselhorn Art Gallery, Sparta, IL

Art on the Square, Belleville, IL

Selected Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

2016

Top Five: December 15, 2016 [Primary Research #1], Glasstire

2014

MCAD Scholarship, Minneapolis, MN

Best of Show, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Senior Thesis

2009

Mary Ann Nole Fellowship for Sculpture Students, Milwaukee, WI

Milwaukee Public Art Grant, City of Milwaukee, WI

2008

Best of Show, Foundations Show, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI

Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Fine Arts Excellence Scholarship, Milwaukee, WI

2007

Rosco Misselhorn Fellowship, Sparta, IL

Selected Publications, Articles, and Reviews

2022

New American Paintings 162, vol. 27, no. 5, October/November 2022, pp. 32-35. Living on a Caboose, Pink Flamingos, The Ground Littered with Glittered Spiders reproduced.

2019

And We All Breathe the Same Air: A Poetry Anthology, Augie’s Bookshelf, Cover Artwork.

2016

Primary Research and an End of Eulogies, Brad Fiore, Palliate Blog, 2016

“Top Five: December 15, 2016.” Glasstire, December 201

2011

Zachary Cahill, “Twice Removed: A Survey of Take Away Works’ at Golden Age,” Artforum, February 24, 2011,

2010

DCD News Article, Public Art