Born:
1964, lives & works in London

Studied:
Royal College of Art, London. MA Painting, 1993-95
Central St. Martins College of Art & Design, London. BA Fine Art/Painting, 1990-93

One & Two Person Exhibitions:
Solo show; Buchmann Box, Berlin. March/April 2009
LO-FI-SCI-PLI; solo show, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin. Jan-March 2008
SILENT GLITCH Paintings: solo show at Buchmann Galerie, Berlin. Nov 05/Jan 06
New Paintings; two person show with Dennis Hollingsworth at Buchmann Galerie, Cologne. March/Apr 2005
Solo show, Alfred Camp Gallery, London. March'01.
Apopalyptics: New Paintings; solo show presented by James Colman, 152c Brick Lane. London, May 1998
               
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2010
Atlantis II (Hidden Histories - Imagined Identities); Rohkunstbau XVII group show curated by Mark Gisbourne, Schloss Marquardt, Potsdam, Germany, July-Sept 2010 (exhibit. cat.)
Palm paintings; group show including Tomory Dodge, Lutz/Guggisberg, David Reed, Juan Uslé & others, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin. Jan/March
2009
Bollito Misto; with Jim Butler, Wilhelm Mundt, Arnold Odermatt & others, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin. July-Sept
B Noticed; inaugural exhibition at The Broadcaster curated by the Postmethodists  Wellingore & Waddington, rural Lincolnshire. Launched 11th & 12th July 2009
Group Show; including Tony Cragg, Wolfgang Laib & Tatsuo Miyajima, Buchmann Box, Berlin. May/June
Monuments wth a Horizon Line II; group show with Zaha Hadid, Karen Mirza & Brad Butler, Markus Miessen & Bettina Pousttchi, Sergio prego, Joel Sternfeld, Jorinde Voigt, Lawrence Weiner & Clare Woods, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin. Feb/March
2008
Aesthetics of Similarities, Another History of Future; curated by Oliver Zybok as part of the Prague Triennale - Re-reading the Future - including John M Armleder, Matthew Benedict, Pae White & others, Veletrzni Palace, National Gallery, Prague. 3 June -14 Sept (exhib. cat.)
2007
Passion for Art; Sammlung Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Vienna. 15/11/07-28/3/08 (exhib. cat.)
Dream of Putrefaction, group show curated by Dereck Harris, Fieldgate Gallery, London. March/April
Dream of Putrefaction, group show curated by Dereck Harris including Michelangelo Antonioni, Kirsten Glass, Anton Henning, Marylin Minter & others, Metropole Galleries, Folkestone. Jan/Feb
2006      
Cologne Art Fair, Buchmann Galerie, Koln. November   
Berlin Art Fair, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin. September
Basel Art Fair, with Buchmann Galerie, Basel. June
Slider, group show curated by Richard Priestly including Ian Monroe, DJ Simpson & others, Cell Project Space, London. April/May
Brussels Art Fair, with Buchmann Galerie, April
Vienna Art Fair, Buchmann Galerie, Vienna. April
2005      
Group Show, Sammlung Essl Museum, Vienna. Nov 05/Jan 06
Cologne Art Fair, with Buchmann Galerie, Cologne. Oct/Nov
Basel Art Fair, with Buchmann Galerie, Basel, Switzerland. June
Vienna Art Fair, with Buchmann Galerie, Vienna. April
Brussels Art Fair, with Buchmann Galerie, Brussels. April
2004      
Caution: Uneven Surfaces, group show including John Chilver, Liz Neal, Markus Vater and others, Temporary Contemporary, London. Dec 04/Jan 05
Kingdom, group show curated by Patti Ellis including Steven Gontarski, Neil Rumming, Toby Ziegler and others, Market Gallery, Glasgow. Nov/Dec
East International, selected by Neo Rauch & Gery Harry Lybke including artists Frank Ahlgrimm, Hurvin Anderson, Martin Kobe, Jo Mitchell, Rosa Loy and others, Norwich Art Gallery, Norwich School of Art & Design. July/Aug (cat.)
2003     
Wheeling: Motorcycles in Art, curated by Marcus Sendlinger including Liz Craft, Martin Eder, Jo Mitchell, Grayson Perry and others, Cell Project Space, London. December
Bag Lady, group show curated by Richard Priestly including Ian Monroe, Bob and Roberta Smith, Neil Zakiewicz and others, Cell @ 258 Cambridge Heath Road, London. Nov/Dec
Minimalism and More: Contemporary Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation; curated by Billie Weisman including Josef Albers, Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt, Frank Stella and others, Pepperdine's Weisman Museum, California, USA. Aug/Nov
2002     
John Moores 22, selected by Matthew Collings, Fiona Rae and Jenny Saville including Ian Davenport, Mark Francis, Gerard Hemsworth and others, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Sept/Dec
Neverland, group show curated by Monika Oecshler including Kirsten Glass, Caroline McCarthy, Paul McDevitt and others, Cell Project Space, London. June/July.
2001     
Group show, de March & Solbiati Gallery, Milan. May 01
2000     
The Wreck of Hope, group show including Torie Begg, Jo Mitchell, David Thorpe and others, The Nunnery. London March '00
1998     
Close Up On Pattern, group show including Dan Hays and others, Laure Genillard Gallery, London. Oct-Dec
1996     
J. Walter Thompson Gallery, London. June
1994     
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London.

Forthcoming Exhibitions & Art Fairs:
Dark Wave Forms; solo show, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin. Sept/Oct 2010

Selected Press & Bibliography:
2009
Monuments with a Horizon Line II; review by Daniel Miller, Frieze on-line. 5/3/09
www.frieze.com/shows/review/monuments_with_a_horizon_line_ii/
2007    
Slash Seconds Issue 7, sci-fi edition; collaboration with Jo Mitchell. Launch 7/12/07, E:vent Gallery, London.
The Dream of Putrefaction, preview by Pil & Galia Kollectiv, Plan B magazine. Jan
2006     
Silent Glitch at Buchmann Galerie, Jane Neal, p125, Modern Painters. March Issue
Silent Glitch at Buchmann Galerie, Katrin Wittneven, Der Tagesspiegel. 14th January
2005     
Sean Dawson: Paintings, Die Kolner Magazine. April Issue
2004     
Kingdom, John Beagles, p11, a.n. Magazine. November Issue East International, Daniela Johnson, p65, Flash Art. October Issue # 238
East International, Martin Herbert, pp28-30, Art Monthly. September Issue # 279
East International, Andrea Mason, pp6-7, a.n. Magazine. September Issue
East International, George Szirtes, pp118-119, Modern Painters. Autumn
Go East, News, p22, a-n Magazine. July
News, by Richard Dyer, p15, Contemporary Magazine, Issue 60. Feb/Mar 2004
2003    
Bag Lady, review by Helen Sumpter, Time Out Magazine. 10-17 Dec 2003
212121Painting: From Postconceptualism to Recontextualism, Brian Muller, pp32-41, Contemporary Issue 58. Dec 03/Jan 04.
Sean Dawson, by Richard Dyer, pp46-49, Contemporary Issue 58. Dec 03/Jan 04.
2002    
London Calling, Nick Jones' review of John Moores 22, Facto Magazine. November
Who Needs Harry's Bar, review of John Moores 22, The Independent. September
Liverpool Arts; by Philip Key, Liverpool Daily Post. 28th November
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Lost in Liverpool, review of John Moores 22, TheTimes. September 2002
Independent Spirit, review of John Moores 22, AN Magazine. October 2002
Neverland, reviewed by Sarah Kent, p51, Time-Out Magazine. 10-17 July
2000  
The Wreck of Hope, Stuart Croft, p24, AN Magazine. May
1998    
News at the Galleries, London. Flash Art. May/June
Art Review, Sue Hubbard, Time-Out Magazine, London. May

Publications:
XVII. Rohkunstbau: ATLANTIS II, Hidden Histories - Imagined Identities; exhibition catalogue published by Verlag Hans Schiler, Berlin. 2010
Re-reading the Future; Prague Triennale exhibition catalogue, produced by National Gallery Prague, published by Kant. June 2008
Passion for Art, exhibition catalogue produced by Sammlung Essl Museum, Vienna. Nov/Dec 2007
EAST International 2004, catalogue (The Kingdom of Incest, text on Sean Dawson by Cedar Lewisohn). July/Aug 2004
The TI Group Art Collection: Painting Graduates of the RCA 1975-2000, TI Group plc

Other Activities:
RCA Secret; fundraising postcard exhibtion, Royal College of Art. Nov 2009
The Big Ink; charity fundraising event & auction in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support, Amersham Arms, New Cross, London. 12th-14th June 2009.
Shoes or No Shoes; contributor to the collection of artists' shoes including John Baldessari, Maurizio Cattelan, Sylvie Fleury, Isa Genzken, Otto Muel, Gerhard Richter, Lawrence Weiner & many others. Shoes or No Shoes Museum, Kruishoutem, Belgium.
www.shoesornoshoes.com
Concerto for Voice & Machinery Radio Show, with Rob Flint & Jo Mitchell, Resonance FM. 13th February 2007

Awards:
Individual Visual Artists Award, Arts Council, London. December 2004
LAB Individual Artists Visual Arts Award. Jan 2001

Collections:
BIS, Basel
Essl Collection, Vienna
Frankfurt Kunsthalle, Germany
Laure Genillard, London
Reinhard & Ute Onnasch Collection, Berlin
The London Institute, London
T.I. Group, London
Frederick R Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles. 
Private Collections- Europe

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