Sean Lynch (born 1978) is a contemporary Irish visual artist. He lives and works in

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, County Limerick,

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Early life and education

Lynch was born in

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, Ireland in 1978 and studied art at the Städelschule. He has a master's degree in

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from the University of Limerick.

Work

Lynch works with forgotten histories especially those of public monuments. He describes his outlook in an interview: “We live in a time with so much information available to us—the least we can do is try to use it to recontextualize the vicious binary aggression that is linear history.”

Career

Lynch has exhibited with

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(2006), and had solo exhibitions with the

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(2011),

Hugh Lane Gallery The Hugh Lane Gallery, officially Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane and originally the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, is an art museum operated by Dublin City Council and its subsidiary, the Hugh Lane Gallery Trust. It is in Charlemont House ( ...

(2012–15), Modern Art Oxford (2014), representing Ireland at the

Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...

in 2015,

Royal Hibernian Academy The Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) is an artist-based and artist-oriented institution in Ireland, founded in Dublin in 1823. Like many other Irish institutions, such as the RIA, the academy retained the word "Royal" after most of Ireland became in ...

(2016), the Charles H. Scott Gallery (2016), the Rose Art Museum (2016), and the

Douglas Hyde Gallery The Douglas Hyde Gallery is a publicly funded contemporary art gallery situated within the historical setting of Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. When the Gallery opened in 1978, it was for a number of years Ireland's only public gallery of ...

(2017). In ''A Rocky Road'' at the Crawford Gallery, he investigated the legacy of Eilish O'Connell's ''Great Wall of Kinsale''. In his Douglas Hyde Gallery exhibition, Lynch made work about the relocation and presentation of the Tau Cross of

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in Rosc '67. 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

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, Pittsburgh. Lynch was commissioned by the

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to make ''Distant Things Appear Suddenly Near'' in 2021. The public artwork consists of a "scale replica of the Corkman Hotel", felled elm trees, and parts of

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’s artwork ''Faultline'' (1997).

Museum projects

''Sleepwalkers'' (2012–15) at the

, 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

and a publication. Lynch's exhibition was titled ''A Blow-by-Blow Account of Stonecarving in Oxford'' and took place during July – September 2013''.''

Bibliography

* Lynch, Sean (with Jorge Sattore). ''The Rise and Fall of Flint Jack''. Leeds: Henry Moore Institute, 2019. ISBN 9781905462629 * Barry, Kevin, and Sean Lynch. ''Bardlore / This is Bardcore''. Southampton: John Hansard Gallery, 2019. ISBN 9781912431106 * Lynch, Sean, and Michael Hill. ''What is an apparatus?; ndA walk through time''. Dublin, Ireland: The Douglas Hyde Gallery, 2017. ISBN 9781905397679 * Lynch, Sean. ''Sean Lynch : Vancouver Days''. Vancouver BC: Charles H. Scott Gallery Publication Studio Vancouver, 2016. ISBN 9781927385449 * Lynch, Sean, and Woodrow Kernohan. ''Sean Lynch : Adventure: capital''. Italy: Ireland at Venice, 2015. ISBN 9780957625822 * Edited by Michael Dempsey and Logan Sisley. ''Sleepwalkers''. Dublin: Hugh Lane Gallery and Ridinghouse, 2015. *Lynch, Sean. ''A Blow-by-blow Account of Stonecarving in Oxford''. Oxford: Modern Art Oxford, 2014. *Lynch, Sean. ''For the birds''. Carlow: VISUAL, 2014. ISBN 9780955863080 *Lynch, Sean. ''The stuccowork of Pat McAuliffe of Listowel''. Tralee: Siamsa Tíre, 2008. ISBN 9780955863028 *Lynch, Sean. ''Yesterday's papers : art and artists in Irish newspapers''. Sean Lynch, 2007. ISBN 9780955863004 *Lynch, Sean, and Matt Packer. ''Preliminary sketches for the reappearance of HyBrazil''. Galway: Galway Arts Centre, 2007. ISBN 9780955863035

References

External links

Official website
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