Sean McDowell
(b. 1997, Erlangen, Germany)
Lives and works in Melbourne (Naarm), Australia
Email: seanmcdowellart@yahoo.com.au
Education
2020 Bachelor of Fine Arts (First Class Honours), Victorian College of the Arts
2018 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture and Spatial Practice), Victorian College of the Arts
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 (Upcoming) And the World Turns, Linden Projects Space, St. Kilda, VIC
Spectra, Lennox St. Gallery, Richmond, VIC
2023 Backdown to Earth, @14 Langridge, Collingwood, VIC
Bruise, Castlemaine Contemporary Art Space (CASPA), Castlemaine, VIC
Sean McDowell: Collectors' Focus Series XII, Lennox St. Gallery, Online Exclusive
2022 Organisms, Five Walls, Footscray, VIC
2021 In the day I dream of faraway places, Kingston Arts Centre, Moorabbin, VIC
2019 The Staging of Actions Past, St. Francis, Collingwood, VIC
Selected Works, Rubicon ARI, North Melbourne, VIC
Cuprum, Cuprum, Kings Artist-Run, Melbourne, VIC
2018 The Repositioning of Objects that Once Functioned, George Paton Gallery, Parkville, VIC
2017 The Repositioning of an Object that Once Functioned, Seventh Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC
Commissions
2019 First Commissions Project, The University of Melbourne, Southbank, VIC
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Refuge, workshop, stage, site: Billilla Artist Studios 2023-23, Bayside Gallery, Brighton, VIC
Lifeforms, Lennox St. Gallery, Richmond, VIC
2022 Shifting Forces, CAVES, Melbourne, VIC
2020 VCA Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Southbank, VIC
From Heart + Mind, The Dax Centre, Parkville, VIC
2019 Extended Gestures Extended, Five Walls, Footscray, VIC
2018 VCA Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Parkville, VIC
2017 Testing Sites- A public art project, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC
Group Conversations; Australia’s Shame, George Paton Gallery, Parkville, VIC
2016 Proud, The Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery, Southbank, VIC
Curatorial Projects
2023 In a State of Limbo, with Georgie North, Tinieka Page and Alice Ramsden, Castlemaine Contemporary Art Space (CASPA), Castlemaine, VIC
2022 Shifting Forces, with Julien Comer-Kleine, Gabrielle Skye Nehrybecki and Nina Rose Prendergast, CAVES, Melbourne, VIC
2019 Curator of Box123, The University of Melbourne, Southbank, VIC
2017 Co-Curator of Proud 2017, The Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery, Southbank, VIC
Grants
2023 Ralph McClean Microgrant, Fringe Fund
2021 City of Yarra Small Projects Grant
2020 Kingston Arts Grant
City of Melbourne COVID-19 Arts Grant
The Myer Foundation National Assistance Program for the Arts Grant
2018 UMSU Arts Grant
Prizes / Awards / Residencies
2023 Billilla Artists Studio Residency Program, Bayside City Council
2019 Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship (Shortlist)
2018 Majilis Travelling Scholarship (Shortlist)
Perrin Sculpture Foundry Award (Recipient)
2017 Mary and Lou Senini Student Art Award (Finalist)
Graeme Hildebrand Art Prize for Young Contemporary Artists (Finalist)
Footscray Tertiary Art Prize (Honourable Mention)
Selected Media / Bibliography
2023 https://www.miragenews.com/2023-billilla-studio-artists-announced-915234/
2022 http://cavesgallery.com/exhibitions/shifting-forces
https://artedit.com.au/ones-to-watch-sean-mcdowell/
2021 https://www.kingstonarts.com.au/VISUAL-ART/Exhibitions/Sean-McDowell
2020 https://www.sane.org/media-centre/media-releases-2020/the-dax-centre-heart-and-mind
https://art2020.finearts-music.unimelb.edu.au/programs/honours/sean-mcdowell
2019 https://www.kingsartistrun.org.au/artists/sean-mcdowell/
https://www.art-thoughts-au.com/search/label/Sean%20Mcdowell
Collections
Work is held in public, private and corporate collections throughout Australia and internationally in USA, Singapore, Germany and The Netherlands.