Sean P. Healy is a multimedia artist based in

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. Healy's work often explores the rationales of social power structures utilizing everything from chewing gum to resin, cigarette butts and large sliding glass doors. He is the youngest artist to have been awarded a

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Public Art Commission, and in 2006 completed a project for

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’s federal

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. His project for the

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Headquarters in

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was completed in 2008 and coincided with a solo show at the Betty Moody Gallery. Other noteworthy group shows were; Oregon Biennial (1999), Fresh Trouble (2005) and THE HOOK UP (2007)Willamette Week , “First Thursday in review: Art-chitecture?” , June 13th, 2007
/ref> Healy received his BFA in printmaking from

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. He has had numerous one-person exhibitions both at th
Elizabeth Leach Gallery
and at spaces such as

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Healy, Sean Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American multimedia artists Alfred University alumni Artists from Portland, Oregon